The Moth hosts, records, and makes podcasts of live storytelling events. Stories are typically non-fictional and come from people ranging from former presidential aids to aspiring pick-pockets and they are told before live audiences. I've listened to four or five of them and each has been pretty good.

Quoted: The Moth is a New York City based nonprofit organization that conducts live storytelling events.

anyone seen this? sounds effing awesome.

i dotted this over a year ago. Tons of movies and tv shows up on rapidshare. A lot of the content is crap, but there are gems to be found..

Quoted: My mission? 31 days without plastic

ps redot.

holy crap. this school rules.

Quoted: Berea College, which charges no tuition and only accepts applicants from low-income families, provides an unusual perspective on how universities should handle endowments.

i just picked up McDonough and Braungart's book Cradle to Cradle and noticed in the back that chi-town is listed as one of their partners. This is McDonough's overview of the partnership. It's a little lacking on details, but as far as I know Chicago is the only city that has seriously considered Cradle to Cradle for city renovation.

also, the book is freaking awesome from a fetishist's perspective. it smells like no other book i have ever smelled and it is almost infinitely eraseable. i underlined a bunch of stuff on one page with a fine pen, took a wet washcloth, and successfully scrubbed off all the marks and underlinings without damage to either 'paper' or ink. pretty pretty cool...

I haven't watched this yet, but it's another video on cradle to cradle (i'm at a coffee shop checking email without headphones). On another note, re-reading certain parts of 'Security, Territory, Population', it's striking to see McDonough's concepts deploy a kind of governmentality, or rather, to see him take up the methods of problematization constitutive of governmentality and exact them through a concept of conduct.

A story about the first 'successful' prosecutor in the war on terror--and his recent indictment under the justice dept. Follow the relays of power and discover how the state is never the regime of consistency that it seems...

Why can't all journalism be this good?

Quoted: This American Life, presented by Chicago Public Radio, is an award-winning radio program as well as a television program on the Showtime network. Hosted by Ira Glass, we feature first-person stories and short fiction pieces that are touching, funny, and surprising. Regular contributors include David Sedaris, Sarah Vowell, David Rakoff, Dan Savage, John Hodgman, Jonathan Goldstein, and Chris Ware.

Two major financial melt-downs in one day. Did anyone listen to/read the NPR program on the credit crisis?

Quoted: It is the second-largest financial institution to fail in US history, regulators say.