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Ecopod

Ecopod: the environmentally-friendly coffin. Gimme a break. “Made from 100% ecologically sound materials the Pod is the ideal product for a non toxic burial or cremation.” Isn’t death all about toxicity? This concept might be too ridiculous even for Bobos. (Link via Reenhead, a cool DC blog I recently discovered.)

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Vagabonding site

The excellent Rolf Potts, whose award-winning travel writing and “vagabonding” ethic I greatly admire, has launched a new site. Vagabonding.net showcases material and resources from his new book, “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel.” It’ll be published later this month; I can’t wait to read it.

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Glavine to the Mets

It shall pain me to see Tom Glavine, who’s been an Atlanta Brave his whole career, and who’ll be a hall of fame pitcher when he retires, put on the (dreaded) Mets uniform next season.

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Worldview desktop

Meet the worldview desktop v0.9. For those who really like to see what’s happening, at any given moment, all over the world.

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DC Metro blog map

I just came across the DC Metro Blog Map, which is a cool representation of Washington-area bloggers.

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More from my buddy Reeves

More from my buddy Reeves re: the guy who committed suicide Cask-of-Amontillado-style: “Don’t be silly. We’re talking about Italy in the early 50s. No one lived alone. They were still rebuilding from WWII, their economy was a shambles, and it’s a European country, you know, that place where people routinely live with their parents well into their 30s.”

You’re probably right, Reeves. I hadn’t thought about that.

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My friend Reeves responds…

My friend Reeves responds to the item below: “What’s most shocking is that no one in the man’s family seemed to notice THE ENTIRELY NEW WALL IN THEIR HOUSE.”

Ha. I assume he lived alone. And the new wall was in the cellar, after all, so it might’ve been easy to overlook.

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Incredible story

Here’s an incredible story. 44 years ago, an Italian man was diagnosed with a terminal disease. He didn’t want to worry his family with news of his impending death, so he told them he was moving to America. Then he packed a couple suitcases, built a wall around himself in his home, and shot himself. And now his remains, along with a suicide note, have been found by a woman who bought the house and is doing renovations. This is straight out of Stephen King. Or, rather, straight out of Edgar Allan Poe.

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“The Merchants of Cool”

Frontline’s “The Merchants of Cool” is a documentary about the creation and marketing of teen pop culture. I haven’t seen it, but I want to. On the show’s site, Robert McChesney, a media critic, discusses an argument I’d love to read more about: teenagers in non-commercial societies are happier than those in hyper-commercial ones, like ours.

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“Long and narrow-headed humans”

Did “a race of long and narrow-headed humans”–Asians–populate the Americas before Native Americans?