An anthology of new work from seventeen writers with websites. It is available as a downloadable PDF, which requires the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view. You probably already have it. Feel free to forward, print, share, discuss, deconstruct, and/or cherish.

"Manual"

A photoblog of the abandoned American West.

Lost America: Roadside Gallery

Americans commuting patterns are changing fundamentally. Similar shifts in the way we work can't be far behind.

A beautiful collection of photos.

The Long Way There

Paul Krugman:

We should expect a prolonged, grinding decline in home prices, back to more or less their pre-bubble inflation-adjusted levels.

Brad DeLong:

My guess is that we will ultimately give back half of the doubling ...

The Future of Housing Prices

AS online social networking weaves itself more extensively into the fabric of everyday life, a new class of technology vendors has set out to make the social Web relevant in the workplace, too.

These companies, with names like InsideView and Genius, seek to integrate broad Internet searching with social networking and business intelligence software to give workers access to interrelated pools of information.

MySpace Mind-Set Finally Shows Up at the Office

Anders Albrechtslund:

In this article, I argue that online social networking is anchored in surveillance practices. This gives us an opportunity to challenge conventional understandings of surveillance that often focus on control and disempowerment. In the context of online social networking, surveillance is something potentially empowering, subjectivity building and even playful – what I call participatory surveillance.

Online Social Networking as Participatory Surveillance

General David H. Petraeus gave this testimony on Iraq before Congress on April 8, 2008. Accompanying the testimony is a separate file of charts.

Testimony of General David Petraeus to Congress on the Situation in Iraq

From Terry Gross, on Fresh Air:

As chief of high-value targeting for the Pentagon, Marc Garlasco helped plan the targets of laser-guided bombs during the invasion of Iraq. Now a senior analyst with Human Rights Watch, he visits war zones where he assesses the damage being done to civilians by bombs and lobbies for greater deliberation in the use of air power. Garlasco has provided assessments for Human Rights Watch throughout the world, including Israel and Iraq.

Assessing the Human Cost of Air Strikes in Iraq

As the web and web browsers have matured, people have started expecting different things out of them. When we first released Firefox, few people were browsing with tabs or add-ons. I’ve written before about how web usage patterns have changed, so too have our strategies on how to effectively make use of system resources such as memory.

Firefox 3 Memory Usage

He hung with Jerry Garcia, dropped acid with Wavy Gravy and helped wipe out smallpox in India. Is Dr. Larry Brilliant saving the world - or just helping Google to take it over?

A profile in Rolling Stone.

The Guru of Google