• Boston Globe: Job Losses Mount in Bay State. The paper points out that while the jobless rate dropped to 5.3% last month in Massachusetts, much of that was due to people not looking any more. For the record, the jobless rate in Washington State is 6.1%.
• Clancy Ratliff: Dude, who put a screw in YOUR spring roll? How not to handle a food tainting issue.
• Tom Harpel: Visualize Your Home Directory. Disk Inventory X is a hard disk space visualizer using treemaps, the same visualization technology used by Microsoft Research’s maps of Usenet.
• Bryan Strawser: The Trouble with the Freedom Trail. Pointer to Boston Globe article about how to move the Freedom Trail away from monuments and to where the action actually happened.
• Zork over AIM (via MeFi). “You are in a maze of twisty little emoticons, all alike.” What the MeFi article doesn’t say is you can also play Hitchhiker’s Guide, Deadline, Wishbringer, or Planetfall, among others.

The New York Times on Rauschenberg’s latest exhibition. I first saw his work in an exhibition in the National Gallery in 1990—a retrospective of the Rauschenberg Overseas Cultural Interchange works. I still have a print of Malaysian Flower Cave, though it’s somewhat dented from falling off dorm room walls.

I spoke too soon yesterday; my cold has now migrated back up into my sinuses with a vengeance. Bear that in mind as you read this sad abbreviated list of links with minimal commentary and have mercy.

• If you’ve a date in Paris, she’ll be waiting in ... Nanterre?
• Igino Marini has done digital revivals of some of the Fell types (the oldest surviving type punches in England), including a really killer Great Primer set. For free download. (thanks AKMA)
• Kids! Build your own official NASA paper space exploration fleet! Scissors and glue not included. (thanks Boing Boing)
• Don’t like the Supreme Court? Legislate them into irrelevancy by introducing a bill to allow Congress to override their rulings. Balance of powers be damned, and surprised no one thought of this before. (thanks Metafilter)

Am I the only one who thought about this line from the first Star Wars movie when the announcement came out about the tenth planet (or planetoid, as the case may be)?

Of course, I also can’t pass up a chance to point out other battle stations, in this case made of Legos. Here’s the second Death Star as a full size sculpture, and over seventy pictures of an incredibly detailed minifig-scale multi-level diorama of all the scenes that took place in the first Death Star. All I can say is, I thought I was obsessive, but I was wrong.

The Shifted Librarian points to RSS feeds from Archive.org. Probably best known as the home of the Wayback Machine, which lets you see web sites as they were during selected points in time in the past, the Archive also houses lots of amazing content, including digital versions of the Prelinger archive, old software, and lots and lots of music.

The RSS feed of their master collection is fascinating. Live performances by Soul Coughing, Gary Jules, Howie Day, From Good Homes, and others are listed right now, and I’m guessing there’s some fascinating other stuff if you dig deeper below the last fifty items.