Adoption interrupted – The Star. about “disrupted” adoptions in toronto.

Look what my wife brought back from Wisconsin. Best wife ever! http://twitpic.com/29mjaa

Writer Evan Ratliff Tried to Vanish: Here’s What Happened | Vanish | Wired.com. the writer tried to disappear for 1 month and Wired ran a contest to find him. very interesting read.

Cool Tools: The Best Magazine Articles Ever. not an authoritative list but definitely some interesting finds. via ram.

YouTube – Street Slide: Browsing Street Level Imagery – Presentation from SIGGRAPH this year for upcoming Bing Map streetview features. The demo is really cool (and it ends with an iPhone demo).

Code as Craft » Batch Processing Millions and Millions of Images. 130 million to be exact. I’m amazed they preprocessed all of them instead of caching on demand. There’s gotta be 120 million images that are basically never seen.

Alex Payne — Node and Scaling in the Small vs Scaling in the Large. some interesting comments about node and the difficulties of scaling. makes a really good point about how certain large scaling problems might require completely different patterns then your existing technology. via ram.

Garage sale negatives verified as $200 M Ansel Adams trove – thestar.com. “A Fresno man who spent $45 on two boxes of negatives at a garage sale 10 years ago has had them authenticated as lost works of the iconic American photographer Ansel Adams worth an estimated $200 million”

A few Git tips you didnt know about. some good ones in there that i did not know about.

Photoblog – Pilot ejects an instant before fighterjet crashes. now those are some crazy photos

New PDX Bike Assembly Station Helps Cyclists Get Rolling. oh portland. you are awesome.

ALT/1977: WE ARE NOT TIME TRAVELERS on the Behance Network. you gotta read the copy of some of the posters. it’s hilarious.

Tea-Baggers Fall For Fake Onion Story. stupidity knows no bounds.

What registrar/dns provider doesn’t support CNAME records? What a clown show.

Maker of iPad Cases Wins Shopify Competition (and $100,000) – You’re the Boss Blog – NYTimes.com. very cool.

Homeowners Use Airbnb Room-Renting Site to Pay Mortgage, Dodge Foreclosure – Bloomberg. mentions a couple people who are basically paying their mortgage with airbnb.

from the sounds of it, the Toronto Indy is raced by a pack of vuvuzelas

Taschen, Kraken and More Publish Luxury Limited-Edition Books – WSJ.com. we’re talking really luxury.

Argentina votes to legalize same-sex marriage – thestar.com. what do you think the chances are that the US will be the last country on the American continent to do this?

Google Spent $100 Million Defending Against Viacom’s $1 Billion Lawsuit. that’s a lot of legal fees.