Tribeca, Manhattan.
There was a reunion of the Photo Club earlier this week, complete with a ridiculous barrage of camera flashes.

Why They Hate Us, a weblog by Flak Magazine. "An ongoing record of the cultural and commercial things America does to bring the distaste and loathing of the world upon our heads."

Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
See also NYC Vans: Photographs by Jay Boucher. Via TMN.

A year ago: Leftovers from Tuscany and Rome.

Quick survey for a story I'm writing: What do you do with your empty inkjet cartridges, at home or work? Drop me a note. Thanks.

Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

From the vast archives of Cockeyed.com: Trophy night!

Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

§pecial Ångel Page. Please God, don't let Clinton's classmates find this.

Rewards, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. ($300 max? So unfair.)

Spitting Image is a new weblog about... images. The links in the right column alone could probably keep you busy for a few days.

A year ago: Leftovers from Italy and Greece.

Harlem and vicinity, from a train.

I've been reading the first issue of FOUND magazine. I was skeptical about the editors' ability to find enough "found" stuff to fill a periodical, but they seem to have tapped into a secret network of obsessive finders, so maybe they'll do just fine. See the find of the week and other good things on their site. I like this one.

This showed up in my wallet recently. I sent the guy a few questions, and he replied:

Book is about peoples feelings of the tragedy. I live in New York and feel this book would be part of my therapy. Currently a screen writer getting ready to move back to L.A. because I just had a film optioned. I hope that you decide to write your account. Please encourage others.

This is a rogue link to npr.org. (Via BoingBoing.)

I wrote a story about my Google quest that's in the July issue of Business 2.0 magazine. I'll talk about it some more when it goes online.

Houston Street 1-2 stop, Manhattan.
Deborah Brown's "Platform Diving" mosaics are some of my favorite bits of subway art. More photos at nycsubway.org.

A correction: The new mosaic in the Times Square station, seen here on 2.22, is actually by Jack Beal and has something to do with Greek mythology.

See also 2.8.2001 and NYCMTA: Art en Route.

Oh no, another New York photo weblog thing: slower.net. (It's good.)

Raucous klezmer dancing at a wedding in Prospect Park, Brooklyn.

Just because I have World Cup fever: Icelandic football stadiums. I like the shots that are almost pure white. Also see A Day in the Life, an international photo-of-the-day thing with potential. Both via New Things.

Ghost signs.

Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.

Upper West Side, Manhattan.

Some demolition has uncovered a huge ghost sign featuring a horse on Broadway in the 60s. It's far more impressive than this was. I saw it while zooming by in a taxi. If you see it, take a photo for me.

UPDATE: Andrew was way ahead of me. He's got photos of the 'Hunter Baltimore Rye' sign at Broadway and 64th.

See also 8.13.2001 and Forgotten N.Y.: Ads.

YoLaTengo.com: Top Billing. "Some of the many marquees we have known over the years."

Heiferman finally launches his start-up: MEETUP.

I spotted this product for sale in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The label reads: "Guaranteed New York City Tap Water. As used in the kitchens of the Brooklyn Culinary Institute."

I had never heard of the institute, so I tracked down its intriguing site, which makes it out to be a liberal-arts college for foodies, or more specifically "a multi-disciplinary organization of higher learning focused on the integration of various academic disciplines through the medium of food."

Then I clicked on "Campus Life" and found this recipe. Hah.

(For more on tap water, bottled and otherwise, see this compilation of entertaining Coke documents I put together last year.)

Glish.com: Photos of bugs.

Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Rion helped out with the Flat Stanley Project.

Students make a paper Flat Stanley and mail it, along with a blank journal, to someone on the list of participants or to a celebrity or politician. The recipient treats the visiting Stanley as a guest and takes it places.

Also by Rion: Kids, boxing.

Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

It seems brokers have given up on cold-calling doctors and lawyers. Instead they're going after the really big money and spamming bloggers:

From: [...]@aol.com
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 13:42:16 EDT
Subject: Social Awareness

Please allow me to introduce myself, my name is Jennifer [...], and I work for Salomon Smith Barney. I work with many clients who have an interest in investing in politically correct companies...

I would very much like to send you information on our managers and their past performance. Please let me know if you have an interest.

Ken Layne's comments about my story raise an interesting point. Which is likely to more accurately reflect a person's opinions: what they say in an interview, or what they've written in their weblog?

More feedback: None of my stories have ever inspired a song before.

Hudson River piers, Manhattan.

More on my story about weblogs in today's NYT. These are the links that would have been in the article if the NYT put links in articles:

-- Eric Olsen's post about crushing lefty-fascist essayists with a blog book.
-- Jason Kottke responds to Olsen's remark. (A day earlier he critiqued a myopic article on warblogs.)
-- Matt Haughey backs up Jason.
-- Max Power (Ted Frank) responds to the responses. (More feedback on the same page.)
-- The new Blogroots site, put together by Matt, Meg Hourihan and Paul Bausch.
-- Ken Layne says the tech bloggers don't mean much to him.
-- Also mentioned: Camworld, Instapundit, Scripting News.

Full transcripts of my interviews will be posted here as soon as somebody pays me to write them up. (I'm a freelancer.)

If I had been given room for one more paragraph in the story, it would have emphasized the point that blogs can be about more than just politics or technology. Some are about other important things. Some are about very little, and that's just fine. Some are about photos. Links to more sites like this are in the right column.

Hudson River piers, Manhattan.

I wrote a story about weblogs for Monday's NYT business section: A Rift Among Bloggers. As might be expected, it's already generating a fair amount of discussion. More on that tomorrow.

In more important news, Bazima and friends have some more info on Park Slope's mysterious Landmark Pub.

A year ago: Santorini, Greece.

Soho, Manhattan.

Vectorpark.com's PARK. Click on stuff. Fun. Via New Things.

Upper West Side, Manhattan.
Barney Greengrass is the Sturgeon King.

For Thursday's NYT Circuits section I wrote a little story about the endless proliferation of cash machines: 2 Rooms, River View, A.T.M. in Lobby. Can't pay the food delivery guy? Get cash without going outside!

Elsewhere, people are blogging about a story I haven't written yet. Talk about your instant feedback! This whole Internet thing is just crazy.

Fort Greene Park and its Prison Ship Martyrs Monument, Brooklyn.

Written in the West, photographs by Wim Wenders. Via Obscurantist.

Upper West Side, Manhattan.

Heiferman.com has migrated to Scott Heiferman's FotoLog. So what's a FotoLog?

FotoLog is Blogger for people that don't write well. Or LiveJournal for people that don't have a lot of time. Except Blogger & LiveJournal are real products. This is an experiment.

In other Heiferman news, the world wants to know: What is MEETUP?