• Well – Kept From a Dying Partner’s Bedside – NYTimes.com
  A reason I don’t travel much in the U.S. Medical proxies may not work for gay people.
  tags: queer hospital medical civilrights gay

• greg.org: the making of: Many Happy Returns
  excellent write-up on the shenanigans of this week’s art auctions in NY
  tags: nyc art auctions corruption market

• Society6
  Society6 is a platform for emerging and established artists from every creative discipline to showcase their talent as it unfolds. Includes ability to apply for, or give money for, grants.
  tags: art community web2.0 grants

• Olex Blog
  tags: architecture design typography berlin
• NewYorkology: Free hours at museums, gardens, zoos for Spring ’09
  tags: nyc museum free

• Ruthenia – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  One of the more fascinating geographical/historical Wikipedia entries I’ve read lately.
  tags: history geography russia slavic ukraine kiev wikipedia

• Can Scientists Dance? — Science
  The world’s first Dance Your Ph.D. Contest
  tags: science dance video music academia dj
• Artists: Diversify your hustle! | Own This City | Time Out New York
  tags: arts economics

• subways at scale
  world’s subways at same scale
  tags: subway transportation map

• Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable – Clay Shirky
  I’m late on posting this, but it’s still awesome.
  tags: journalism media technology publishing history

Video spotted via enjoybanking. Visit Barbara Celis blog for more info, James’s post, and this flickr stream.

• How ABC Interview Shaped a Torture Debate – NYTimes.com
  Some critics say that the now-discredited information shared by Mr. Kiriakou and other sources heightened the public perception of waterboarding as an effective interrogation technique. “I think it was sanitized by the way it was described” in press accounts, said John Sifton, a former lawyer for Human Rights Watch, an advocacy group.
  tags: torture warcrimes alqaeda