NYC Marathon

The New York Times posted a cool feature on the website.  Cover the NYC Marathon in under 4 minutes with an animation of 1000s of photos.  Click here to see it.

Vinyl Fanboy

Here are two neat links. One, courtesy of the New York Times, to a story about one of the finest record stores in the United States.

Our Towns
In Princeton, an Offline Haven for Music Shoppers Thrives
By PETER APPLEBOME
Published: April 10, 2008
A holdout record store is still selling vinyl, offering the visceral experience of poring through album bins in person.

and the other, kindly exposed at Hidden Track:

Hard Rock Park, located in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Very silly.

They're Just Like Us

New York Times reporter Susan Dominus on people who live off selling used books to the Strand bookstore. Link here.

Another New York Times piece. A Jake Mooney Dispatches column about selling off record collections! Link here.