Around the Web [04.07.08]…

April 7, 2008 | 10:00 AM

More links gathered over the last month or so…

CNN: Modern black church shuns King’s message [king v. the prosperity "gospel"]
The Atlantic: Clogged Arteries [if you don't click any of the other links i've offered, this is the one to click and read... it's about america's transportation infrastructure]
Gallup: Americans’ most and least favored nations [Gallup.com is one of the most interesting sites i've got bookmarked... which is probably a huge indictment on myself]
TED: Ideas worth spreading [i've been meaning to blog about this for a while now... it'll probably get its own post soon, but check it out. intelligent folks out there speaking on intelligent-folk topics]
Maitri’s VatulBlog: Day 947: 31 Months After, A Drive Through New Orleans [one of the best NOLA bloggers on the state of the city 31 months after katrina]
NOLA.com: Critics admit they didn’t visit, research post-Katrina New Orleans [it's so hard to critique what you've never seen]
Norway: Svalbard Global Seed Vault [in the case of nuclear war, we'll be able to replant all the world's plants... in the radioactive ashes of earth... assuming anyone is left to do it... and they can get to a remote arctic island... and they have the password and key to get in... and don't kill almost every plant they touch like i do... and give a rip about that kind of thing... still, i think it's neat]
Time Magazine: NATO- Alliance of the Unwilling and How Moqtada al-Sadr Won in Basra [two pretty interesting articles from a pretty interesting magazine]
The American Prospect: The Obama Doctrine [if you wanted to know where Obama stood on foreign policy, this might be a good place to start]
Teach the People: “the world’s first social community and content networking service equipped with tools and features for the flexible sharing of knowledge!” [and boy are they excited about it... i guess it's like wikipedia + wikihow, but with a potential for more credibility?]
TechCrunch40 list of 2007’s best web things… 2008 brings 50!
UNEP: Green Passport ["holidays for a living planet"]
Green Daily: Brad Pitt vies to be green mayor of New Orleans [riiiiiiight... but you know... he's still got to be a better fit than C. Ray, the current entrepreneurial emperor of his Chocolate City
Inhabitat: 12 New Solar America Cities Chosen and Tiny Pill-Sized Plasma Bulb Brighter than Streetlight
Green Daily: Chinese giant salamander [freakin' huge salamanders... click for photos]
BBC News: Solar System’s ‘look-alike’ found [or as close as we can find this week]
Gadling: Bizarre, monstrous sea creatures found in Antarctic waters [again, why i love marine science... only God could have created something so incredibly strange]
Gadling: Your daily dose of European stereotypes [you'll laugh, you'll cry... but mostly you'll laugh]
TreeHugger: Note To Great Lakes Governors: Las Vegas Doesn’t Want Your Water [because someone thought it was plausible to build a pipeline 2500 miles across the US]
ProBlogger: 14 Essential Mac OS X Applications for Bloggers [for mac users who blog, i'm guessing]