PCMag.com (my employer) got a much-needed, long-overdue facelift today: PCMag.com

Great collection of tips for urban bicycle riders: Paul Dorn’s Bike Commuting Tips: Introduction (thanks, Jeremy)

Blind since age 3, this kid taught himself to see using echolocation … which is sensitive enough that he can tell the difference between a car and a pickup truck: The Boy Who Sees with Sound : People.com (via Scot)

Another Ohio item: Where I come from is, it turns out, deep in the heart of “pop” country. Where I live now is “soda” land. No wonder I feel so alienated sometimes. (via Mark)

deep cleveland books is the keeper of the flame for beat poet d.a. levy and home of the Cleveland-centric e-zine, the deep cleveland junkmail oracle. Yes, there is intelligent life in Ohio!

The “long tail” is digerati shorthand for the the increasing profitability of companies’ backlists–the formerly neglected niche products that used to be kept in stock just in case one of them suddenly turned into a breakout hit, or because they were simply necessary to have a fully-stocked store. No

Just for kicks, and because AdBrite has such cute branding, I decided to check out its advertising network. I’ve been using Google AdSense for awhile (and just got my first $100 check from it last month, woo hoo) but I’m open to alternatives, especially if they stand a chance of making me a little d

Calder sculpture; a single brown leaf tumbling from the sky published in The Heron’s Nest VIII.2, June 2006 This is my first published haiku outside of tinywords.

When I was a kid, the more gears your bike had, the cooler it was. Yet San Francisco is just crawling with single-speed bikes. On closer inspection, I found that many of these bikes don’t even have coaster brakes–they’ve got direct-drive chains. As long as the wheels are turning, the crank is turnin

I’m definitely adding some of these tunes to the “some day learn to play on ukelele” list. I love the Miro-like album covers too: Singing Science Records

Here are two upcoming PCMagCast events that I’m producing and moderating. Lots of useful info in both of them — check them out! SMB Bootcamp: How to Can Spam (Tuesday, July 25, at 2pm Eastern / 11am Pacific) A 60-minute overview of anti-spam technologies for small-medium businesses, featuring PCMag

Big, eclectic, wonderfully easy-to-use collection of ukulele tabs: Ukulele Boogaloo