Places I Visited on the Internet Today #14

Another day of catching up on the Internet has been recorded:

• I was back on the Buckman Historic Association website, doing more work on it. Anyone need to have a website built/updated/maintained? Get in touch with me, I may be able to help you out for cheap.
• browsershots.org is a website that will give you screenshots of your website as seen through different browsers. It's pretty handy.
• A guy has a really big problem with theaters that do "Tweet Seats" promotions in which they section off a part of the audience to allow them to be on their phone during the production. I'm not sure if I agree or disagree with his stance (maybe I have no opinion on it?), but I do know that "Tweet Seats" is a really terrible name. (via @barryjohnson)
• After the Oregonian's article on TriMet driver fatigue, TriMet's board of directors are committed to making changes. The Mercury notes that another significant part of this story was TriMet's stonewalling on providing public records.
• Here's a site with statistics on TriMet overtime. The author claims "the following charts explain themselves", but I couldn't make heads or tails of them.
• Here's a Flight of the Concords sketch. That's a show I never watched. (via @sonyabysonya)
• I have a Pinterest account that I never use or look at, although I did compile some photos of cute animals.
• I'm pretty excited about the Oregon Historical Society's upcoming Oregon Black History Series.
• Speaking of the Oregon Historical Society, they're hiring.
• Bob Dylan's 50th Anniversary Collection: The Copyright Extension Collection, Volume 1 is some seriously cynical bullshit cooked up by music industry suits.  
• I always get really annoyed when someone on the television or radio or real life says,"we have the best health care system in the world" because we don't, and even 15 seconds of Googling will tell you that we don't. It's a jingoistic nonsensical thing to say. If you don't believe me, just read this article.
• I'm interested in seeing a mileage-based road-use tax instead of a flat gas tax, although I didn't consider until now how it "punishes" more fuel-efficient drivers. Still, makes sense to me.
• The Advocate's highly subjective list of gayest cities in America. Portland doesn't make the cut, although Tacoma, Salem and Eugene all do.
• If I had an alligator, I would also have named him Mr Teeth.
• The Bureau of Internal Business Services warns that the city is not spending enough to maintain the current stock of buildings that it owns. 
• Someone's indie game called Famaze. I really like video games a lot, but I don't play them very often.
• I went to tvguide.com because I was wondering what time the Golden Globes were on.
• Amtrak has lost the least amount of money in the past year since 1975, and are adding newer electric trains and expanding service. 
• 1000 Friends of Oregon's report on the high cost of sprawl.
• There's been some talk of putting a freeway out in the Hillsboro area, but it looks like the governor may have set those plans back a bit.
• An HOA for a condo in the Pearl are being dumb jerks about bike parking.
• You know what? If you're a neighborhood activist, maybe you can - regardless of how angry you are - not say that your neighborhood is being "raped". For Pete's sake, this person is talking about a loss of on-street parking spaces. Cry me a river.
• Illinois' public pension system is operating on a $17 million-dollar-a-day deficit.
• The Willamette Week has some background info on the yahoo that wandered around Sellwood with an assault rifle the other day. Here's some of the 911 calls that came in on account of these dummies.
• Milton-Freewater is working on preserving their downtown.
• Vintage Portland has a 1924 industrial map of the city. Swan Island is still an island and Ross Island hasn't been hollowed out yet.
• The Mercury's review of Zero Dark Thirty, a movie that I have no interest in watching, but think that it's really funny that Chris Pratt is in it.
• This article about superfrogs isn't as interesting as I was hoping.
• Bad jokes that can be found on Wikipedia. (via +Chris Higgins)
• Bike Portland has a short round-up of different factions who are organizing the opposition to the Columbia River Crossing.
• The Northwest History Network has microfunding grants available! I might need to get in on this.
• Mental Floss has 11 weird and dangerous things that you could order from the 1902 Sears catalog.
• The Dill Pickle Club's Kickstarter for their next Oregon History Comic - go give them some loot!
• GIFs of the week. (via @_lucky)
• To watch later: the 1962 report "Pollution in Paradise".
• More on the planning of the Zidell Yards from Portland Architecture.
• "The Formulaic Nature of Contemporary Album Cover Art"
• Lance Armstrong will admit to Oprah Winfrey that he used performance enhancing drugs. Not because he is ashamed and regretful, but because he is a jerk and admitting this will allow him to pursue his personal goals.
• Quora question pages I looked at:
• What is it like to be exposed to new technology after a 20+ year prison sentence?
• What is the most bizarre job interview you have been party to?
• What is it like to talk with a serial killer?
• Why don't web browsers render the same content identically?
• From the Retronaut:
• The Mad Potter of Biloxi
• Polluted America, 1971 - 1977
• Autogyros
• Wikipedia pages I went to:
• List of inventors killed by their own inventions (via @mightythylacine)
• CSS Hunley
• Karel Soucek
• AVE Mizar (a flying Ford Pinto!)
• Boardman, Oregon
• George E Ohr (the Mad Potter of Biloxi)