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    By | August 3, 2010

    Paris Photo Three days late this month; but then, who’s counting…

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    This month…

    Blog Roll: Cousteau; Catalog Living

    Cooking: The Kitchn; Retro Recipe Attempts; The History Chef; How to open a bottle of wine with your shoe; A Note from Bill Penzy; The Ins-n-Outs of an In-n-Out Double-Double, Animal Style.

    Design: The Creativity Crisis; Fayum Mummy Portraits; Missing Missy; Unbelievable Pencil Art; Don Norman Talks Design; Typeface; Information Is Beautiful

    History: How America Got It’s Name; Bierced; The Interpretive Value of Different Perspectives; Greene & Greene Virtual Archive; Hot on the Trail.

    Language Arts:  I Write Like…; Best Magazine Articles Ever; Rupert Murdoch, Neel Shah and the Short Pants; Jeff Bezos Commencement Speech; Goodbye to All This: On Leaving True/Spin…

    Music: Do The Right Thing; Ocean; Public Image Ltd.; Pat Metheny on Kenny G.

    Pics:  Mila’s Daydreams; Ansel Adams; Still-Life Photography; The Longest Photographic Exposures In History.

    Science: Planck Telescope Reveals Ancient Cosmic Light; Robins Can Literally See Magnetic Fields; Invasion; Scientopia rises from mass exodus at Scienceblogs.

    Spin Zone: America Builds An Artistocracy; Crisis of Capitalism; Forget Shorter Showers; The New Science of Morality; Four Economic Benchmarks We Need Now…

    Travel: 8 Perfect Summer Lake Towns; Road Scholar; America’s Lesser-Known National Parks; America’s Most Underrated National Parks; A Vision Of Britian Through Time; Via Francigena; Photo Diary; Hotel Munch; Small Town Gems.

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    This Month’s Web Bytes

    Just added to the Garden Guide: USA Grow Stores - Gardening resources for America.  Also added: Urban Gardens (unlimited thinking in limited spaces), and Urban Gardening Help (helpful tips and tricks for environmentally-conscious urban dwellers).

    161 of the Best Videos on YouTube (Mashable)

    Stephen Fry: What I Wish I’d Known At 18

    Joking Computer

    Broken Secrets

    VW Fast Lane - The Slide

    100 Years of Visual Effects (5:00 YT)

    David Lipsky on the Late David Foster Wallace (NPR’s The Takeaway)

    360 Tribute To Escher

    20 Parrot Tricks In 2 Minutes

    NPR: All Things D

    Clay Shirky: How Cognitive Surplus Will Change The World (TEDTalks)

    Underwater Jumping

    BP Spills Coffee

    Vortex Cannon

    Lake Street Creamery

    When Five Fell (10:00)

    Unlikely Friends (wonderful Orangutan + Hound Dog bonding, but takes :30 to load)

    Idlekeyboard (sound busy when not)

    Topics: August | No Comments »

    The New Internet Eclectic

    By | July 2, 2010

    Paris Photo A day late, but short to boot…

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    This month…

    Blog Roll: Cousteau; Catalog Living

    Cooking: Watermelon Carving; Perfect French Fries; 101 Recipes For Grilling

    Design: Missing Missy; Unbelievable Pencil Art; Don Norman Talks Design; Typeface; Information Is Beautiful

    History: Ancient Chinese Secret: Yes, Masons Used Sticky Rice

    Language Arts: Two Poets; I’m Comic Sans, Asshole; 2010 Bulwer-Lytton Contest Winners

    Music: Ocean; Public Image Ltd.; Pat Metheny on Kenny G.

    Pics: The Order of Things

    Science: Big Cats Love Calvin Klein Cologne; Keeping A Wary Eye On Solar Weather; 10 Most Disturbing Scientific Discoveries

    Spin Zone: David Souter’s Commencement Speech; Mind Over Mass Media; Merely Human?  That’s So Yesterday.

    Travel: America’s Lesser-Known National Parks; America’s Most Underrated National Parks; A Vision Of Britian Through Time; Via Francigena; Photo Diary; Hotel Munch; Small Town Gems.

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    This Month’s Web Bytes

    NPR: All Things D

    Clay Shirky: How Cognitive Surplus Will Change The World (TEDTalks)

    Underwater Jumping

    BP Spills Coffee

    Vortex Cannon

    Lake Street Creamery

    When Five Fell (10:00)

    Unlikely Friends (wonderful Orangutan + Hound Dog bonding, but takes :30 to load)

    Idlekeyboard (sound busy when not)

    Random Surrealism Generator

    The Data-Driven Life

    Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of judgment. We have blind spots in our field of vision and gaps in our stream of attention. Sometimes we can’t even answer the simplest questions. Where was I last week at this time? How long have I had this pain in my knee? How much money do I typically spend in a day? These weaknesses put us at a disadvantage. We make decisions with partial information. We are forced to steer by guesswork. We go with our gut.

    That is, some of us do. Others use data. A timer running on Robin Barooah’s computer tells him that he has been living in the United States for 8 years, 2 months and 10 days. At various times in his life, Barooah — a 38-year-old self-employed software designer from England who now lives in Oakland, Calif. — has also made careful records of his work, his sleep and his diet.

    Statistics Is The New Grammar

    Dutch Marines board container ship captured by Somali Pirates

    Tie Biz with Bill Murray

    Crater Face (4:45)

    Adverputt

    Meowmania

    Topics: July | No Comments »

    The New Internet Eclectic

    By | June 4, 2010

    Paris Photo Kicking and screaming, here’s June at last…

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    This month…

    Blog Roll: The Quantified Self; The Origin/Evolution of Empathy; Letters To An Absent Father

    Cooking: Recipes For Visual Thinkers; Does the Moon Affect How A Wine Tastes; why do forks Have 4 Tines; Look Past The Children’s Menu

    Design: Pan Am’s Helvetica Dream; Making of Friskies “Adventureland”

    History: Medievil Lands; Last Call; 5 Lesser Known Civil Wars; Fanboy!

    Language Arts: The Geek Alphabet; Reading In A Digital Age; Henry Luce’s Prospectus For Time Magazine; A Spy Novel For The 21st Century; The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest…

    Music: Ocean; Public Image Ltd.; Pat Metheny on Kenny G.

    Pics: The Aura Project

    Science: The Shadow Biosphere; Cotapixi Volcano Time Lapse Video

    Spin Zone: Six Simple Steps To Really Fix Wall Street; Doomsayer’s Beware; What Did Jesus Do; How To Save The News

    Travel: America’s Most Underrated National Parks; A Vision Of Britian Through Time; Via Francigena; Photo Diary; Hotel Munch; Small Town Gems.

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    This Month’s Web Bytes

    When Five Fell (10:00)

    Unlikely Friends (wonderful Orangutan + Hound Dog bonding, but takes :30 to load)

    Idlekeyboard (sound busy when not)

    Random Surrealism Generator

    The Data-Driven Life

    Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of judgment. We have blind spots in our field of vision and gaps in our stream of attention. Sometimes we can’t even answer the simplest questions. Where was I last week at this time? How long have I had this pain in my knee? How much money do I typically spend in a day? These weaknesses put us at a disadvantage. We make decisions with partial information. We are forced to steer by guesswork. We go with our gut.

    That is, some of us do. Others use data. A timer running on Robin Barooah’s computer tells him that he has been living in the United States for 8 years, 2 months and 10 days. At various times in his life, Barooah — a 38-year-old self-employed software designer from England who now lives in Oakland, Calif. — has also made careful records of his work, his sleep and his diet.

    Statistics Is The New Grammar

    Dutch Marines board container ship captured by Somali Pirates

    Tie Biz with Bill Murray

    Crater Face (4:45)

    Adverputt

    Meowmania

    11 Most Endangered Historic Places

    Just added to the Map Guide: Beauty of Maps - BBC series on maps; show blog.

    DIY Orangutans

    Movie Title Stills Collection

    The Anachronism (15:00 Short)

    The Cat With Hands (NSFSC - not safe for scaredy cats)

    ExecutionCharlie ChaplinBigamist.

    Every Painting in the MoMA on April 10, 2010

    Homage to The Whole Earth Catalog (Index) (access to articles in html)

    The World’s Ugliest Statues

    Just added to the Education Guide: People’s Archive - Great people telling their life stories.

    Just added to the Arts Guide: 6 Myths of the Art Market - Bernard Ewell is an art appraiser who wrote a brief article explaining the 6 myths.  Explaining the high end, read The Art Market Explained.

    Management Secrets of the Grateful Dead (Atlantic).

    The Grateful Dead Archive, scheduled to open soon at the University of California at Santa Cruz, will be a mecca for academics of all stripes: from ethno­musicologists to philosophers, sociologists to historians. But the biggest beneficiaries may prove to be business scholars and management theorists, who are discovering that the Dead were visionary geniuses in the way they created “customer value,” promoted social networking, and did strategic business planning.

    What Do You Suggest (How To…)

    Tell that optimist, if he touches my glass again I’ll knock his block off.

    Google Reader Play

    Woodworks Library

    Documentary Heaven

    Best of the web nominees - museums (e.g. The MOMA on Bauhaus)

    Virtual Sistine Chapel

    Topics: June | No Comments »

    The New Internet Eclectic

    By | May 1, 2010

    Paris Photo Find the time between chores this May and explore…

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    This month…

    Blog Roll: The Far Left Side; Hyperbole and a Half; How I Did It; The Sunday Magazine

    Cooking: Moleskin Recipe Journal; Edible Flags; Jeff Varasano’s NY Pizza Recipe; Cook Your Meat In A Beer Cooler; Dinner With Bill Murray

    Design: Rumme.org; Lorem iPad; VW Recall; Beautifully Banal; Cartographies of Time; So You Need A Typeface

    History: Survey of London; Wild Film History

    Language Arts: Rosetta Project; If you can’t master English, try Globish; Analogies and metaphors of High School essays; The Master of Historical Fiction; Chronic Citizen; The Glass Box And The Commonplace Book

    Music: Stairway To Heaven with Dolly Parton; Hallelujah (KD Lang vs. Leonard Cohen); John Prine’s Long Monday

    Pics: BeetleCam Project; Henri Cartier-Bresson; Alternative Photography

    Science: Pink Terror; Starry-Eyed Hubble Turns 20; 8 Wonders of the Solar System; Wisdom: From Philosophy To Neuroscience; Parrots, The Universe And Everything; Wormhole Research…

    Spin Zone: The Collapse of Complex Business Models; Gainful Employment; A Critical Thinking Experiment In Real Time; The Imitation Economy; The Unknown Promise of Internet Freedom; The Pope, The Church And Skepticism

    Travel: Via Francigena; Photo Diary; Hotel Munch; Small Town Gems.

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    This Month’s Web Bytes

    Just added to the Map Guide: Beauty of Maps - BBC series on maps; show blog.

    DIY Orangutans

    Movie Title Stills Collection

    The Anachronism (15:00 Short)

    The Cat With Hands (NSFSC - not safe for scaredy cats)

    ExecutionCharlie ChaplinBigamist.

    Every Painting in the MoMA on April 10, 2010

    Homage to The Whole Earth Catalog (Index) (access to articles in html)

    The World’s Ugliest Statues

    Just added to the Education Guide: People’s Archive - Great people telling their life stories.

    Just added to the Arts Guide: 6 Myths of the Art Market - Bernard Ewell is an art appraiser who wrote a brief article explaining the 6 myths.  Explaining the high end, read The Art Market Explained.

    Management Secrets of the Grateful Dead (Atlantic).

    The Grateful Dead Archive, scheduled to open soon at the University of California at Santa Cruz, will be a mecca for academics of all stripes: from ethno­musicologists to philosophers, sociologists to historians. But the biggest beneficiaries may prove to be business scholars and management theorists, who are discovering that the Dead were visionary geniuses in the way they created “customer value,” promoted social networking, and did strategic business planning.

    What Do You Suggest (How To…)

    Tell that optimist, if he touches my glass again I’ll knock his block off.

    Google Reader Play

    Woodworks Library

    Documentary Heaven

    Best of the web nominees - museums (e.g. The MOMA on Bauhaus)

    Virtual Sistine Chapel

    Nature By Numbers (short film by Cristobal Vila)

    How To Die Well (Karen Armstrong at BigThink)

    Our Vanishing Wilderness (1970 documentary on vanishing wildlife in America)

    Then, the animated short The Man Who Planted Trees (Part2, Part 3)

    Tree Branch vs. Power Line

    Dogs catching treats in slow motion

    Hungry Kittens

    Topics: May | No Comments »

    The New Internet Eclectic

    By | April 1, 2010

    Paris Photo With spring sprung, here’s something for when April showers…

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    This month…

    Blog Roll: Mesofacts; The Omnivore; Art of the Steal

    Cooking: Ruth Bourdain; Sous-Vide Steak; 24 Secret Restaurant Menus Revealed; The Day My Arse Died; The Cutting Edge; 100 Years Of What Americans Are Eating…

    Design: British American Cover Art; The Meaning of Colour; The orange and teal appeal; Colors: Black; Gonzo In Wonderland; The Secret Language of Signs…

    History: NeoAssyria; A History of the World in 100 Objects; The Nebraska Navy; The Dreyfus Affair; Apoca-lit Now…

    Language Arts: Dreaming Methods; Hocus Bogus; Crash Blossoms; Library Science; On Jonathon Swift’s Poetry; David Mamet’s Master Class…

    Music: Phantom of the Opera; iamamiwhoami; Collaboration; I Feel Better; The Steinway of Harmonicas; Variations; Direction Newhere

    Pics: RIP Jim Marshall; The Wonders of China; Earth Art; The photograph that defined class divide

    Science: Warning: Your Reality Is Out Of Date; Snave Vs. Dinosaur; Return of the Fungi; The Riddle of Experience Vs. Memory; Insectopedia; Report From Colbert

    Spin Zone: Streams of Content; Does God Have A Future; Time To Start Taking The Internet Seriously; The Mousavi Mission; Teaching Compassion…

    Travel: Via Francigena; Photo Diary; Hotel Munch; Small Town Gems.

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    This Month’s Web Bytes

    Just added to the Education Guide: People’s Archive - Great people telling their life stories.

    Just added to the Arts Guide: 6 Myths of the Art Market - Bernard Ewell is an art appraiser who wrote a brief article explaining the 6 myths.  Explaining the high end, read The Art Market Explained.

    Management Secrets of the Grateful Dead (Atlantic).

    The Grateful Dead Archive, scheduled to open soon at the University of California at Santa Cruz, will be a mecca for academics of all stripes: from ethno­musicologists to philosophers, sociologists to historians. But the biggest beneficiaries may prove to be business scholars and management theorists, who are discovering that the Dead were visionary geniuses in the way they created “customer value,” promoted social networking, and did strategic business planning.

    What Do You Suggest (How To…)

    Tell that optimist, if he touches my glass again I’ll knock his block off.

    Google Reader Play

    Woodworks Library

    Documentary Heaven

    Best of the web nominees - museums (e.g. The MOMA on Bauhaus)

    Virtual Sistine Chapel

    Nature By Numbers (short film by Cristobal Vila)

    How To Die Well (Karen Armstrong at BigThink)

    Our Vanishing Wilderness (1970 documentary on vanishing wildlife in America)

    Then, the animated short The Man Who Planted Trees (Part2, Part 3)

    Tree Branch vs. Power Line

    Dogs catching treats in slow motion

    Hungry Kittens

    Taberinos (a bit addictive, frankly)

    The LXD In The Internet Age (dance evolves at TED)

    That’s What Bea Said

    My Father’s Garden (Vimeo)

    Why Ancient Wisdom Matters In The Modern World

    Soft In The Middle (NewYorker)

    Topics: April | No Comments »

    The New Internet Eclectic

    By | March 1, 2010

    Paris Photo With spring just around the corner (one hopes), here’s some diversions while the snow mounds resist the coming rains.

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    This month…

    Blog Roll: Pretend Office; Sticky Moments; Pecking Order; Glory At Sea

    Cooking: An Edible History of Humanity; Kitchen Garden Planner; H.R. Giger Cake; Photoshop Cookies

    Design: Luna Commons; Dazzle Camouflage; An Iconography of Contagion; Under The Milky Way; Redesigning Valentine’s Day; Picture Book Report…

    History: Internet Archeology

    Language Arts: How I Met My Wife; How To Order A Beer; The Land of Underwater Birds; DFW Audio Project; Simply Putting On Weight…

    Music: Pops - Culture Changing Genius; This Must Be It; I Put A Spell On You; iamamiwhoami; Too Late To Appologize; Come Up To The House

    Pics: Graphing Math’s Function In Photography; NYPD Aerial Photos of 9/11; A Photographic History of the Philippine-American War; World Press 2000

    Science: Memes & Temes; Internet Ideology War; Nature’s Hot Green Quantum Computers Revealed; The Ethical Dog; Maths and Hallucinations…

    Spin Zone: How To Get Our Democracy Back; Oxfordgirl vs. Ahmadmejad; Fools’ Gold; Planet War

    Travel: Via Francigena; Photo Diary; Hotel Munch; Small Town Gems.

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    This Month’s Web Bytes

    Hotdocs Online Docs

    nsfw Chatroulette (article in NYM)

    Ten Word Wiki (Index)

    Bill Gates:  Innovating To Zero (TED)

    Stephen Fry on the Late Late Show (Craig Ferguson; Part 2, 3, 4, 5)

    Google Buzz

    A Brief History Of Pretty Much Everything

    Bucks Credit Union

    Lennart Green + Close Up Card Magic (TEDTalks).

    Sexual Politics of Dancing (Spiegel)

    This is where we live.

    How to be a man part 4: Tape Measure Skills

    CGI ++:  The Third & The Seventh

    100 Things We Didn’t Know Last Year (BBC)

    What Type Are You?

    Michael Moschen performs The Triangle

    The trailer for the film Room And A Half (in Russian) has some amazing animation.

    Topics: March | No Comments »

    The New Internet Eclectic

    By | February 1, 2010

    Paris Photo A short month in a long winter…

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    This month…

    Blog Roll: The Big Fat Undertaking; The Secret History of Typography in the OED.

    Cooking: America: Too Stupid To Cook; Cook Almost Anything; Smoked Haddock Chowder; Quel Cassoulet; Pizza Turnaround…

    Design: Fontana Modern Masters; Letterheady; Dennis Zilbert Art Blog; Demons And Devotions

    History: The Bunny Revolution; What Objects Say About Our Times

    Language Arts: Google Magazines; The World’s Hardest Language; Do’s And Don’ts of Online Publicity; Only Reflect; Visions and Revisions…

    Music: Symphony of Science; On Gospel, Abba and The Death of The Record; Won’t Get Fooled Again; Opera en el Mercado; ‘81

    Pics: Pingwire; Dublin At Work In NYC; Best Photos of 2009; Dogs of Moscow

    Science: Images From The History of Science; Science of Success; 50 Best Science Blog Posts; Quantum Theory vs. 40-Tonne Truck; Foamy Invention

    Spin Zone: How America Can Rise Again; How Is The Internet Changing The Way You Think; Prudence, You No Longer Rule My Day; How Corporate Branding Has Taken Over America…

    Travel: Hotel Munch; Small Town Gems.

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    This Month’s Web Bytes

    Lennart Green + Close Up Card Magic (TEDTalks).

    Sexual Politics of Dancing (Spiegel)

    This is where we live.

    How to be a man part 4: Tape Measure Skills

    CGI ++:  The Third & The Seventh

    100 Things We Didn’t Know Last Year (BBC)

    What Type Are You?

    Michael Moschen performs The Triangle

    The trailer for the film Room And A Half (in Russian) has some amazing animation.

    The life journey of the Russian poet Joseph Brodsky inspired this drama written and directed by Andrey Khrzhanovsky. Brodsky, a Nobel laureate who was born in 1940, fled the Soviet Union in 1972, and died in 1996, once told a reporter that if he were to return to the land of his birth, he’d do so without identifying himself, and in Poltory komnaty ili sentimentalnoe puteshestvie na rodinu (aka A Room and a Half, or a Sentimental Journey to the Homeland), Khrzhanovsky imagines what the voyage would be like, and what he thinks the poet’s reaction would be. Touring his old neighborhood, the older Brodsky (Grigoriy Dityatkovskiy) recalls his youth, when he (Artem Smola) lived with his loving father (Sergei Yursky) and mother (Alisa Freindlich) in a small but comfortable apartment in Leningrad following the end of World War II, and the idyll of life with his family colors his view of the world around him. As Brodsky becomes a young man and goes off to college, he learns about art and language, and a new world is opened to him; however, he also becomes aware of the oppressive nature of the Soviet regime, and he begins speaking out in favor of greater freedoms, marking the first steps on his road to exile.

    Book Book

    2009 Third Coast Broadcast Awards

    What Matters Now

    Vimeo’s 25 Favorite Videos (Too Much Candy)

    Malk

    I Will Remember To Take My Medication (Bart’s Blackboard)

    Speaking of beards, Brian Blessed as Henry VIII

    More beards, with James Lipton urging texters to Give It A Ponder

    Finally, the Allen Ginsberg Figurine

    Robin Hood

    Granny O Grimm (check out the film/click on TV)

    Fifty People One Question

    I Are Cute Kitten

    Simon’s Cat “Snow Business

    Top 10 Trick Football Plays

    David Rock’s Google Talk Your Brain At Work

    Edifice Wrecks

    Topics: February | No Comments »

    The New Internet Eclectic

    By | January 1, 2010

    Paris Photo Baby, It’s Cold Outside so here’s something to do while looking out the window…

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    This month…

    Blog Roll: Retro Renovation; Special Delivery; The Year In Ideas; Architects Talk

    Cooking: Science Cookies; Eight Ways In-Vitro Meat Will Change Our Lives; Gumbo: The Mysterious History; No Beads, No Babes, No Bourbon Street…

    Design: Neutra Face; Mag +

    History: Christmas Food Timeline; A Lost European Culture; Dissertations On His Dudeness; Bonus!; History of the World In 100 Objects…

    Language Arts: Omm Writer; Lehrer’s Rules; DFW’s Grammar Challenge; Ink Mesh; I Am Locking The Wikipedia Article On Our Sex Life; Twitterature…

    Music: The Gift; Baby It’s Cold Outside; I’ll Be Gone; Vectortronic; Forgetting; I’m Yours; 20 Pieces of Music That Changed The World

    Pics: George Steinmetz; Top 10 Astronomy Pictures; Stellar Nursery; The Decade In News Photography; Stuck In Customs; Mukha…

    Science: Decades of Future Science; Mars In Retrograde; View The Milky Way; Kindness Beyond Kinky; The Known Universe; The Year In Science…

    Spin Zone: Iranian Men In Hijab; Leaving The Right; A Vaguely Passive-Aggressive Post On Commenters; The Great Satan Myth; Climategate…

    Travel: Hotel Munch; Small Town Gems.

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    This Month’s Web Bytes

    2009 Third Coast Broadcast Awards

    What Matters Now

    Vimeo’s 25 Favorite Videos (Too Much Candy)

    Malk

    I Will Remember To Take My Medication (Bart’s Blackboard)

    Speaking of beards, Brian Blessed as Henry VIII

    More beards, with James Lipton urging texters to Give It A Ponder

    Finally, the Allen Ginsberg Figurine

    Robin Hood

    Granny O Grimm (check out the film/click on TV)

    Fifty People One Question

    I Are Cute Kitten

    Simon’s Cat “Snow Business

    Top 10 Trick Football Plays

    David Rock’s Google Talk Your Brain At Work

    Edifice Wrecks

    Just added to the Map Guide: Perry-Castaneda Library - PCL map collection from University of Texas; links to online map resources; historical maps.

    Speaking of which, try the map quiz

    Interactive Unemployment Map 1/07-9/09

    50 Most Interesting Wikipedia Articles

    Bio Concrete

    Surprised Kitty

    Google Image Swirl

    Andrew Zuckerman’s Bird Book (pics, sounds, movies)

    Maggwire (in beta)

    Best of the 2000’s TV Commercials (Non Super Bowl)

    How To Make A Baby (SFW)

    Out Of Body Experience

    By My Side

    Sixty Hours of Terror (VirginiaQuarterlyReview)

    A Few Days In Florida

    Not to overdo it, but Cat Town

    Topics: January | No Comments »

    The New Internet Eclectic

    By | December 1, 2009

    Paris Photo The forecast is for some quality time right here.

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    This month…

    Blog Roll: Clients From Hell; It Made My Day; Accidental Geographies; The Nine Nations of China; Lists; confessions of a converted Lecturer…

    Cooking: Thomas Keller’s Ad Hoc At Home Cookbook Recipes; Feast; RecipeLabs; Lunch With M; 12 Minutes of David Chang; Soda Pop Guy; Myhrvold’s High Tech Eye Toward Professional Kitchens; Playing with Fire…

    Design: Objectified; Vintage Ad Posters From Russia; I Thought I Was The Only One; Picasso’s Guernica

    History: 101 Historical Moments You Can Relive On YouTube; Visualizing Empires Decline; The School of Athens; The History of the Internet In A Nutshell…

    Language Arts: Seven Scripts You Gotta Read; The Worst Swear Word; Can I Put You On Hold?; The Auturm Leaves of Red And Gold; Goodnight Keith Moon…

    Music: visible Ink; Perfect Lives; US; How To Play Piano Like Philip Glass; Jazz Now; 10 Magnificantly Modern Musical Instruments; Mixed Reviews…

    Pics: Blue Sun; Mars; I Should Say It Is The Most Complicated Picture I’ve Ever Made; Many; After The Wall; Plant Sex; Ansal Adams on Color; Take A Dream For A Walk…

    Science: Making The Modern World; A virus walks into a bar…; Who knew a drop of water bounced?; Clever Fools; CT Scan Art; Seeing The World In Black And White; The Philosophy of Science…

    Spin Zone: The War For The Web; Renouncing Islamism; 36 Arguments For The Existence of God; Writing On His Behalf…

    Travel: Hotel Munch; Small Town Gems.

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    This Month’s Web Bytes

    Just added to the Map Guide: Perry-Castaneda Library - PCL map collection from University of Texas; links to online map resources; historical maps.

    Speaking of which, try the map quiz

    Interactive Unemployment Map 1/07-9/09

    50 Most Interesting Wikipedia Articles

    Bio Concrete

    Surprised Kitty

    Google Image Swirl

    Andrew Zuckerman’s Bird Book (pics, sounds, movies)

    Maggwire (in beta)

    Best of the 2000’s TV Commercials (Non Super Bowl)

    How To Make A Baby (SFW)

    Out Of Body Experience

    By My Side

    Sixty Hours of Terror (VirginiaQuarterlyReview)

    A Few Days In Florida

    Not to overdo it, but Cat Town

    Atari Video Game Arcade

    The Rings of Earth

    Best Books About Etiquette

    Tricked On Holloween

    Professor Video (Harvard)

    Ocoee River Gorge

    An Anthropological Introduction To YouTube (55:34)

    Just added to the Arts Guide: Van Gogh Letters - Letters by the artist; also a weblog.

    Fake AP Stylebook:  Always capitalize ‘Bible.’ You don’t want to get letters from those people. (or Do not use “nonprofit” as an adjective. Use “broke.”)

    Guardian Reviews of the Decade.

    Lost Generation (YT).

    The Stages of Life

    Single Serving Sites

    Then They Put Me On A Truck

    I love XKCD

    Rabbit Tarot

    Walk On The Wild Side (BBC)

    How Do You Count Your Cash?

    Eagle Filmed Hunting Reindeer (BBC)

    The Model of the New Media Model

    Top 25 Censored Stories For 2010

    87 Cool Things

    Virtual Museum of Iraq

    10 GUI Touchpad

    Topics: December | No Comments »

    The New Internet Eclectic

    By | November 1, 2009

    Paris Photo With frost nipping at everything, here’s something to wrap yourself into…

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    This month…

    Blog Roll: Speechification; Life Lessons From An Ad Man; Information As Stimulus; Chicken a la Carte; Confessions of a Middlebrow Professor; Forty Years of Civilization.

    Cooking:How To Eat A Chicken Wing; Vegetarianism; Undercover Vegetables - Parsnips; The Best Way To Cook A Steak; WAIT!; Why fat lubricates your appetite; Catching Fire…

    Design: Design USA; Peter Paul Rebens - Graphic Designer; Lucian Freud

    History: Norman Centuries; Gilder Lehman Institute; The Sixties Project; Dubai; A People’s History of the Internet; A Graphic History of Newspaper Circulation…

    Language Arts: 100 Days; Snowflake Method; Digital Storytelling; The The Impotence of Proofreading; Little Miss Sunshine; From A Notebook That Never Was; It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers…

    Music: Google Music; Pandora; Eigenharp; Wait It Out; Rejoice In The Lamb; Use Somebody; We Are All Connected

    Pics: On Avedon; Infernal Landscapes, Small Wonders; Hunting Wolf; Polaroid SX 70 Ad; arctiness; Iconic Photos Blog

    Science: Cell Size;Scale; Interactive Periodic Table; Richard Dawkins “Strident? Do They Mean Me?’; 7 Questions That Keep Physicists Up At Night

    Spin Zone: Volker A Tipping Point; Liquor Before Beer; FDR’s Forgotten Freedoms; Why Yankee Stadium Sucks; Why Minds Are Not Like Computers; ‘News’ Forbidden City; How To Save Media…

    Travel: Hotel Munch; Small Town Gems.

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    This Month’s Web Bytes

    Just added to the Arts Guide: Van Gogh Letters - Letters by the artist; also a weblog.

    Fake AP Stylebook:  Always capitalize ‘Bible.’ You don’t want to get letters from those people. (or Do not use “nonprofit” as an adjective. Use “broke.”)

    Guardian Reviews of the Decade.

    Lost Generation (YT).

    The Stages of Life

    Single Serving Sites

    Then They Put Me On A Truck

    I love XKCD

    Rabbit Tarot

    Walk On The Wild Side (BBC)

    How Do You Count Your Cash?

    Eagle Filmed Hunting Reindeer (BBC)

    The Model of the New Media Model

    Top 25 Censored Stories For 2010

    87 Cool Things

    Virtual Museum of Iraq

    10 GUI Touchpad

    Just added to the Garden Guide: Sibley Guide - Now the well known Sibley Guide to Birds is available online.

    Just added to Education Guide:  UC Berkely School of Information

    Apple’s Next Revolution

    GivesMeHope

    What The Internet Knows About YouWeb Browser History Detection.  Try Firefox’s BetterPrivacy.

    News21 (Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism)

    Scuba diving on a newly flooded meadow

    Mancave

    Visual Effects: 100 Years of Inspiration

    The Hierarchy of Digital Distractions

    J’attendrai le suivant

    Sorcerer

    Cheese or Font?

    Russian tame foxes (YT/Nova) holds clue to domestication of dogs.

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