These are my links for February 17th through February 21st:

• Recession grows interest in seeds, vegetable gardening – USATODAY.com –
• Fix-It Nation: In Tough Times, Tailors and Cobblers Thrive – TIME – Don't throw all your shoes at your nearest available statesman! Some of those still have some life in them
• Mashahed, "Egyptian Workers Strike against Fertilizer Export to Israel" – English translation of a short piece about Egyptian workers striking against a company that was exporting fertilizer to Israel
• Right Wing Sweeps Israel – Juan Cole on the death of the two-state solution
• State of the Internet: Top Technorati Searches, Feb. 9, 2009 – Juan Cole attempts to parse the top Technorati searches.
• Missing Mexican island fuels mystery – "a force of nature (able to sink an island) does not take place without anyone noticing, and much less so when it is sitting in an area with more than 22 billion barrels of oil reserves."