Scanning through my Bloglines Clippings list, found a few items that I’d probably been meaning to point to but hadn’t gotten to yet.

• Builder has plans for trap club site – from the Bulletin. Yep, that’s the company I work for, promoting one of their next projects. I expect the homes to be very expensive, unfortunately.
• Pictures of the Thunderbird Motel in Bend from Stumptown Confidential. That’s normally a site that shows historic Portland, but I thought the ’70s Bend photos were interesting.
• I’m really enjoying the new Slashfood site. I’d been thinking recently that there’s a need for a good food blog.
• Via Jake, the Bulletin is previewing their new site. Executive summary? There’s still no RSS.

Some things I found interesting this morning.

Via Technorati I found a link to my site from eugene.com‘s blog of the day archive; apparently my site was their blog of the day on November 16 last year. Neat!

And from ORblogs I found a new blog from Portland: the Kenilworth-Abernathy neighborhood blog. Not only does it center on that cool patch of southeast Portland that we like to visit (my brother, when he lived in Portland, always lived southeast, and my bestest friend lives there), but it has “Abernathy” in the name. I never knew one of the neighborhoods in Portland was named “Abernathy.” Worth further investigating.

Okay, yes, so I didn’t write anything here last night, the first time since the beginning of the year that I missed a night. I actually felt a little guilty about that. Keeps me honest, I guess. Anyway, I’m back tonight with some links.

The first is Topix.net, courtesy of ongoing. On the front page, Topix appears to be a news site that aggregates the news from umpteen online sources. Ho-hum, Google News anyone? But the cool thing happens when you give it your zipcode to get local news; BAM! suddenly you get a page devoted to your city/region, and I have to say, the Bend, Oregon News page is one of the best local news pages I’ve seen online. Not just news, either; local weather, sports, resources, even Amazon bestsellers for Bend. Color me impressed.

And call me crazy, but I’d swear Topix was developed in PHP.

The next link is to BlogBinders, courtesy of Adam Curry. It’s a site/service that will turn your blog into a bound book. Interesting. I remember quite a while ago reading an article on blogging where this idea was suggested, and I thought it was eye-opening. I wonder, though, that a lot of blog entries revolve around linking to other sites—I can’t imagine this translates well to a book. Nor would I really want to read all my blog entries in book format—some are simply throw-away.

Third link is to A Californian’s Conception of the Continental United States, courtesy of Utterly Boring. I just thought this was funny.