I interrupt this hiatus to offer up a recommendation…

In-Flux

• DIY Bike Lanes (The Art of the Prank )
  "Do-it-yourself bike lanes are illegal, perhaps dangerous, potentially damaging to the cause of legitimate bike advocates everywhere—and really, really effective."
• Studies in Atemporality - a set on Flickr (Bruce Sterling)
  "Outside the timestream with the prepostmodern archaeofuturistic."
• Bruce Sterling - reboot 11 closing talk
  "On Favela Chic, Gothic High Tech and where we are heading"
• Structurelessness, feminism and open: what open advocates can learn from second wave feminists | eaves.ca
  "A 'laissez-faire' group is about as realistic as a 'laissez-faire' society; the idea becomes a smokescreen for the strong or the lucky to establish unquestioned hegemony over others. This hegemony can easily be established because the idea of 'structurelessness' does not prevent the formation of informal structures, but on […]
• Self-Expression is Overrated: Better Constraints Make Better Participatory Experiences
  "We should respect visitors enough to engage them in work that we actually value, to find in-roads that support their participation. We should care enough about their potential usefulness to find the right job for them to do. "
• How Open Data even makes Garbage collection sexier, easier and cheaper | eaves.ca
  "But this is more than just creating convenience. What are the implications for such an application?"
• Iran's Web Spying Aided By Western Technology - WSJ.com
  "Deep packet inspection involves inserting equipment into a flow of online data, from emails and Internet phone calls to images and messages on social-networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Every digitized packet of online data is deconstructed, examined for keywords and reconstructed within milliseconds. In Iran's case, this is done for th […]
• CeLC discussion on openness
  Thanks to Scott for taking notes during a freewheeling discussion on promoting openness in higher ed.
• Widgets 1.0: The Widget Landscape (Q1 2008)
  " surveys a group of market-leading widget user agents with the aim to inform the requirements of the Widgets 1.0: Requirements document. The survey exposes commonalities and fragmentation across widget user agents, and discusses how fragmentation currently affects, amongst other things, authoring, security, distribution and deployment, internationalisa […]
• Student Statement on The Right to Research
  "digital technologies have opened new opportunities for research. New tools facilitate faster discoveries, speed the development of new technologies, and accelerate the progress of science. Patients could have access to the latest medical research, citizens could evaluate scientific information on environmental impacts, and developing countries could ap […]
• Free Music Archive news
  "a recent flurry of activity and articles concerning copy-left and Web 2.0, file-sharing court cases, and the ever-present performance royalty debate, has reminded me of why I got involved in the FMA in the first place, and it has just as much to do with viewing this archive as a bastion of free (as in "free speech") cultural interaction. […]
• SONGS OF PRAISE
  This is a show by Franque, the owner of Parisian record store (Bimbo Tower) named Franq, did an amazing guest stint on Ken's WFMU show...