Flickr launches Places

Clusters geotagged photos by location, looks slick

from how to attend an indie rock concert

Google is taking a wiki-style approach to location editing on maps

You can correct a misplaced address even if you’re not the proprietor of said address. Changes must be approved if they’re more than 200 meters away and it shows a history of updates. Smart.

U.S. hopes to use Pakistani tribes against al Qaeda

Arming a group of, at best, ambivalent, at worst, openly hostile, tribal leaders in the vain hope that they’ll help us kill their own countrymen while we maintain almost zero military presence in one of the most unstable parts of the world. WHAT COULD GO WRONG?

Amazon launches Kindle, a wireless reading device and electronic book platform

Initial impressions: I like the non-wifi wireless, non-backlit screen and long battery life. I don’t like the high cost and that you can’t seem to sync with your computer.

The bottom line is clear, Mr. President: The more you worried about the unchecked spread of doomsday weapons, the stronger you thought the case was for war in the first place. But precisely because you had a point about the need to stop nuclear proliferation, you must now realize that the costs of a failed war are far higher than you’ve acknowledged.

—Tyler Cowen on the opportunity costs of the Iraq war

My baby brother skydiving in Interlaken, Switzerland! Love that face when he jettisons from the plane.

NYT magazine on Last Exit to Nowhere and the power of fake branding

Fake? T-shirts? Throw in cute video bloggers and cupcakes and this is the ultimate Fimoculous post.

NY Times takes a graphic look at the 08 presidential logos

Why aren’t you reading Hysterical Paroxysm?

You’re probably subscribed to three thousand tumblrs, but you’re not reading the best one.