Links

Here’s another linkdump for everyone. No descriptions. Some aren’t necessary. Trust me, they are all worth it. It’s not like you are on my blog because you have something better to do. You don’t. So might as well trust me, and laugh your ass off.

• Hot Chicks Plunging Their Toilets
• We Have Lazers
• People of Walmart
• Hawtness
• Hot Chicks with Dogs with Boners
• Cake Wrecks
• Look At This Fucking Hipster
• Item Not As Described
• Hot Chicks Picking Up Dog Shit
• Men Who Look Like Old Lesbians
• Don’t Judge My Hair
• Goths In Hot Weather
• Hot Chicks With Hot Dogs In Their Mouths
• Accidental Dong

How hood is your hood Philly?

We all know how the interwebs work. You start looking for a good Lamb Shank Ragù with Anson Mills Grits recipe, and next thing you know you have spent the last two hours watching dancing babies on YouTube. Or, was just going to post a quick question on Yahoo! Answers, but instead spend time finding out how the recession is really affecting those who matter.

So somehow in the midst of all this, I stumbled across this little informational tool, courtesy of the Philadelphia Police Department. The two bummer parts are you can only search over a month long category, and you can only choose one crime category at a time. Surely this is because if anyone could look at a compiled map, people would move the fuck out.

Various stuff…

I have been bookmarking things at work and at home to post, but haven’t been able to get around posting them.

It’s almost 2am and Jill’s at work, so here goes a few.

• Fox News Producer Caught Rallying 9/12 Protest Crowd In Behind-The-Scenes Video. Ugh. Fox News, surprise, surprise. What do you even say about this?
• The Story Behind the Story. See above. By Mark Bowden.
• News Dots. Slate started doing an interactive map of the day’s top news stories, and how they are related. Pretty interesting.
• Journalism Students Need to Develop Their Personal Brand. While the fact that journalism as a whole is pretty shook up is agreed upon, what the future may look like is widely and hotly debated, it seems like those who will be at the head of the pack are those who have some experience in marketing themselves.

Here are a few great reads.

• A Mugging on Lake Street
• We Bring Fear

On the subject of the Mexican Cartels, I pay attention to this blog, which is a blog about organized crime, and he pulls links and reports from all around the world. The reporting that is being done in the west and southwest about the Mexican cartels, and the epidemic violence taking place on both sides of the border isn’t really getting any play on the East Coast, despite reports like this.

Miscellaneous sites and blogs I have been paying attention to:

• The Center  for Public Integrity
• Glenn Greenwald’s blog and podcasts
• Nieman Journalism Lab

I am about halfway though this book. Pretty inspirational. Just finished the section on Manik Chandra Saha. Probably fueling my interest in investigative journalism right now.