Link Casserole

• He Took A Polaroid Everyday is a polaroid site by Jamie Livingston’s friends (via Mental Floss). He took a photo every day for eighteen years, until the day he died, using a Polaroid SX-70 camera. After Livingston’s death, his friends Hugh Crawford and Betsy Reid put together a public exhibit and website using the photos and called it PHOTO OF THE DAY: 1979-1997, 6,697 Polaroids, dated in sequence.
• A NYC celebrity can now give you a Central Park Tour. Dial 646-862-0997 and there are several extensions you can select. A local celebrity will then tell you about specific landmarks and areas. Press 31 to hear Kevin Bacon talk about the Jackie O Reservoir, or maybe you’d like to press 36 to hear Yoko Ono talk about Strawberry Fields? (via NYTimes City Room)
• Slate Magazine has a great article on the street solicitors that pretend to help the seals or needy children:

Most street solicitors aren’t volunteers. In fact, most aren’t even employed by the charity directly but by an agency contracted to fundraise for them […] . According to Charity Navigator, for-profit fundraisers actually keep 25 to 95 cents of every $1 they collect. APortland Tribune article says that Dialogue Direct is paid $180 per new donor enrolled. And this (painfully slow) YouTube video shows a “dialoguer” explaining how she is paid an hourly rate plus bonuses per person she gets to donate. On her third day of work, she made $700 by signing up nine new donors. Past canvassers for the Fund for the Public Interest say that their work with Save the Children was commission-based, and employees received 15 percent of the donation for “one-off” supporters and 20 percent for “Lifeline Sponsors.”

• Photography by Margaret Durow. There’s a really pretty one that reminds me of the Millais painting of Ophelia.