I Think This Makes Me "Goose"

Polishing up the dogtags in light of the latest from the stalwart aeronautics team:

Cockpit

The MacDonald's-Douglas team has been hard at work:

Plane And (Not So) Simple

What does the North Pole look like?  ...I did know once, only I've sort of forgotten.

Maybe this and other additions to the grounds adjacent to the Llama Cottage will help point the way.  I spent cumulative weeks in a refrigerator box loaded up with junk yard switches, mystery dials, and old alarm clock faces serving as altimeters; like most things I recall from childhood, the modern day version promises to include a few upgrades.  Courtesy of my dad, a.k.a., the Orville Wright of play structures.

Photos, Kindles, Hovers, And Links

Saucerers
by Denise Howell

• I took about 300 photos off my camera today, the intrepid saucerers being one of my favorites. Leo hired a social media assistant; I need a family photo editing and distribution assistant. (I need one so badly I — regrettably! — take no video, because the aftermath of shooting is just too time-intensive.)
• Bag and Baggage's Kindle page got updated to match the blog's new look.
• Elliot Noss taught me the geekiest equivalent yet for "I'll be busy then" — namely, "I'll be raiding."
• Elliot also has me intrigued by his personalized domain shortening/customizing/forwarding tool, Hover.com. Like your own tinyurl service, with a nifty bookmarklet too. It's not free but this link gets you 10% off.
• Speaking of which, check out Mashable's 5 Very Weird URL Shorteners, and list of 90 not so weird ones.
• More must-reads from Mashable: How to Use Facebook Privacy Settings and Avoid Disaster, and Should Your Company Have a Social Media Policy?
• Bought: Rip, A Remix Manifesto. ($9.99 on iTunes, or you can pay what you'd like.)
• MagCloud looks like a cool roll-your-own-magazine tool; I can think of a dozen possible client, school, team, and family uses — because magazines are still cool when you make them yourself. More at Lifehacker.
• Exploring: Feedmil (via Lifehacker)
• Quote of the Day: Cory Doctorow, "Their long arm of the law has stretched all the way around the internet to spank themselves in the ass." (Re Warner Music to Warner Music:  You are Pirates!  Is there a Web site devoted to these debacles yet?)
• Quote of the Day, first runner up: Douglas Rushkoff, "[T]he community of Park Slope first thought to protect its brand instead of its people." Rushkoff's forthcoming Life, Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it Back looks like a super complement to the forthcoming 10th Anniversary Edition of The Cluetrain Manifesto, and he says he'll post "most or perhaps all" of it over the next two weeks at Boing Boing.