Check this out: I loaned $25 to a baker in Iraq

This entrepreneur is 40 years old. He is a baker. He has been working in this business for long time. He is a skilled and experienced man. He will use this loan to replace his old clay oven with new one and to buy a kneading machine. He has a good reputation in the market. His bread is fresh and flavorful and he has constant clients. People come from all districts to purchase bread from him.

You stay classy, Wesson Attendance Center: School Cuts Gay Student Photo from Yearbook

Uplifting read: In New Orleans, the Taste of a Comeback

Acronym of the day: MoPhO

I feel like I done some good: Mad Men Moment

NY Times inspired by The Onion: Tinkering With Taco Night

The playful side of art: Kevin Van Aelst

Informative read: History of the user-agent string (I had always wondered why IE advertised itself as Mozilla/4.0)

Incredible photos of the sun: NASA shows 1st images from solar observatory

If I only had a smoker: Kyle makes bacon!

Art of art: “Paintings of Handmade Pottery” Project

This lyric from The Good Life’s “Lovers Need Lawyers” just never gets old:

I could never take another’s hand, it’s to you I’m condemned.

Great photos:

Today, British civil aviation authorities ordered the country’s airspace closed as of noon, due to a cloud of ash drifting from the erupting Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland.

Wow, suddenly it’s everywhere: Dirt! The Movie (via SFGate)

Great name for a cheese shop: The Calf & Kid (via Pacific Northwest Cheese Project)

Whoa, dirt “tastings”: A Taste of Place: an installation by Laura Parker (via Matthew and Beth)

Did you realize you can make a donation to help reduce the public debt?

I cherish purchasing my annual National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass, but it’s worth noting that:

To make it easier to experience America’s Great Outdoors, the National Park Service is waiving entrance fees, so visitors can enjoy all 392 national parks for free April 17-25.

On complexity and obsolescence:

Is it possible that we’re heading for a state in which one lifetime is not long enough to master both photography and all the features of any given full-featured digital SLR? Or, more to the point, that the lifetime of the DSLR isn’t long enough for anyone to truly master it?

Whoa: First Camera, Then Fork

Keeping a photographic food diary is a growing phenomenon with everything from truffle-stuffed suckling pig to humble bowls of Cheerios being captured and offered for public consumption.

Sweet bikes: PUBLIC

Wow, it took me a while to realize Paul Graham ≠ Paul Graham

To read later: The Collapse of Complex Business Models by Clay Shirky

In such systems, there is no way to make things a little bit simpler – the whole edifice becomes a huge, interlocking system not readily amenable to change.

Health Care/Insurance comes to mind…

While Xeni fawns, Cory has a different take:

It really feels like the second coming of the CD-ROM “revolution” in which “content” people proclaimed that they were going to remake media by producing expensive (to make and to buy) products.

Ha: Health Reform is a BFD t-shirt

Can’t wait for an Intel X25-M SSD that’s greater than 160GB…

Neat long-exposure, hand-held shots: Chris Friel (via Gianni)

Aww, another nice tweetimonial.

Now finally/following @jstnwtt, and catching up on his blog posts from the last few months. Justinsomnia.org is a must read. #ff