The New Internet Eclectic
By | July 1, 2009
If you can find the time…
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This month…
Blog Roll: Mindsight; Secrecy is Key; Lingering; Three Woofs and a Woo; Geoggrey Chaucer Hath A Blog
Cooking: Stop Oversaucing Your Pasta; Top 10 Top 10 Food Lists; On Extravagance; The Stag Cookbook; Ruhlman’s BLT From Scratch Summer Challenge; Gastrosexual…
Design: Form Doesn’t Follow Function; Colourshift; Flip Flop Fly Ball; The Served; Bau Bike; The Animation Michelangelo; Coast Modern…
History: The Man Who Named The Clouds; Civil War Preservation Trust; ‘89; Human History Written In Stone And Blood…
Language Arts: Common Solocisms; Java is a four letter word; Raw Shark Texts; The Genius of George Orwell; The Women of McSweeney’s; Hunting the elusive first ‘Ms.’…
Music: A crescendo in the West Bank; Storm Comin’; Supper’s Ready; The Musical Cliche; Leonard Cohen; Bobby McFerrin; Giant Steps; Baby I’m A Fool…
Pics: Picture of the Year Winners; Three Frames; No Lifeguard On Duty; Billion Pixel Pictures; Fallen Princess; Ice; Inside Roy Lichtenstein’s Studio…
Science: Biomimicry; The Genius of Charles Darwin; Sungazer; Meditation On Demand; Microscopy; Losing Sight of the Milky Way; A Fossil Celebrity; Liquid Sand…
Spin Zone: Clay Shirky; Teach Your Kids To Argue…
Travel: Atlas Obscura; High Line; Geek Atlas; 11 Summer Vacations For The Inner Geek; Soul Place.
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This Month’s Web Bytes
Just added to the Arts Guide: Faberge Eggs - Mieks site details the eggs that Karl Gustavovich Faberge made for Tsars Alexander III and Nicholas II between 1885-1917.
Also added to the Arts Guide: Tain - The Tain Lithographs for Thomas Kinsella’s inspired version of The Táin Bó Cuailnge, the dramatic record of Ireland’s proto-historic past.
Just added to the Map Guide: DigMap - Metadata from European national libraries, to provide discovery and access to contents provided by those libraries.” The site is searchable, and browsable by date, place, and individual collection.
Speaking of maps, check out The Graveyard of the Atlantic. Only sealers, shipwrecked sailors and salvagers made their homes on Sable Island, impermanent ones at best. The salvagers must have had some pretty good times – over the last few centuries, more than 350 vessels were shipwrecked on what became known as the “Graveyard of the Atlantic”.
On a roll, Most complete Earth map published (download here).
More recently, Quest (documentary of Johnny Quest TV series from the 1960’s)
More recently, 5 videos of man’s impact on earth over the last 10 years.
Have you watched Home?
While home, fill the iceorb carefully, earthlings.
Following. Also by Seitz: The Explanation. Bonus, the opening sequence of Birth.
Microsoft’s Natal (Intro video). Motion controller predictions.
Did I say that? Mickey Rourke.
British Film Institute on YouTube
Robotics on steroids (Festo’s YouTube Channel)
Surprise Wedding Reception (courtesy of ImprovEverywhere).
Have I Got News For You (uncut).
Some ten years after the initial publication, the acronym APGAR was coined in the US as a mnemonic learning aid: Appearance (skin color), Pulse (heart rate), Grimace (reflex irritability), Activity (muscle tone), and Respiration. The test, however, is named for Dr. Apgar, making Apgar an eponymous backronym. How childbirth went industrial.
How to: keep a cat off the kitchen counter.
You now may need the Random YouTube Insult Generator
Five Dream Discoveries (BBC)
136 Amazing Approaches to Architecture (WebUrbanist)
Just added to the Garden Guide: 10 Essential Herbs (Reader’s Digest)/also added: Square Foot Gardening - Planning small but intensively planted gardens; how to build one; purchase raised bed corners and save time; forum; trench composting is smart.
Just added to the Education Guide; Encyclopedia of Earth - A free, fully searchable collection of articles written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts who collaborate and review each other’s work.
Also added to the Education Guide: Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - Series of video lecturesat MIT.
Speaking of education, Ellen DeGeneres’ commencement speech (full video including her dancing in the aisles)
Test My Brain (Harvard Vision Lab online tests)
Wolfram Alpha(Top 10 Easter Eggs)-(Introductory Video)
Introducing Google Wave. O’Reilly’s take.
2009 Editors’ Awards for Online Excellence
Can Serendipity Make You Rich?
Wait For Me (3 minute documentary)
PBS has added Life of Birds to its lineup online.
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By | June 1, 2009
RIP my dear friend Tim…
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This month…
Blog Roll: Ginger Cat Tales; Tuscon Whole Milk; From Moore’s Law to Barrett’s Rules; God Talk; 1001 Rules For My Unborn Son; Crabby Old Man; The Story of Stuff…
Cooking: Recipe Bridge; Ad Hoc At Home; A Chili Sauce to Crow About; Sandwiches in America; The Fruit Hunters; David Chang; Towards A Grand Unification Of Sutlery…
Design: Human Types; Frank Soltesz; Dear American Airlines; Redesign; Blanka; Ten Things I Have Learned; Hypercritical; On Caricature; The Organ Player…
History: Iconagraphy; Memore Palace; Jazz in the schools; Spinning Caesar’s Murder; Greetings From Poland; A Capital Fellow; The Origins of House Cats…
Language Arts: Boring Within ofr Simply Boring; Hard Case Crime; The Dangerous World of Butterflies; Advertising For Love; Like Boiling A Frog; McSweeney dispatch…
Music: Top 100 Film Scores; Peter And The Wolf; The Nest Mosart; In Bb 2.0; Marc Ribot; Kathleen Supove Slice/Dice…
Pics: Lens; Line of Beauty and Grace; The Kings of Africa; Phootos That Changed The World; Days With My Father; The Americans; Sight Unseen…
Science: Earth Science World; Science, Society and The Merchants of Light; Walter Isaacson on Albert Einstein; LittleBits; The rise and fall of a physics fraudster; Tips From A Savant…
Spin Zone: Future of Journalism; Stop Funding My Failing State; Many Hong Kongs; One World Under God; Einstein and Faith; The End of American Capitalism…
Travel: Confessions of a Introverted Traveler; The Art of Travel; Paris Walks; Drives of a Lifetime.
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This Month’s Web Bytes
Just added to the Garden Guide: 10 Essential Herbs (Reader’s Digest)/also added: Square Foot Gardening - Planning small but intensively planted gardens; how to build one; purchase raised bed corners and save time; forum; trench composting is smart.
Just added to the Education Guide; Encyclopedia of Earth - A free, fully searchable collection of articles written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts who collaborate and review each other’s work.
Also added to the Education Guide: Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - Series of video lectures at MIT.
Speaking of education, Ellen DeGeneres’ commencement speech (full video including her dancing in the aisles)
Test My Brain (Harvard Vision Lab online tests)
Wolfram Alpha(Top 10 Easter Eggs)-(Introductory Video)
Introducing Google Wave. O’Reilly’s take.
2009 Editors’ Awards for Online Excellence
Can Serendipity Make You Rich?
Wait For Me (3 minute documentary)
PBS has added Life of Birds to its lineup online.
RIP Sidney Laverents (Multiple Sidosis).
The 20,000 mile Interview Project (Preview with Sean Freebourn).
Your voice for nature and wildlife - OdyseeTV
Duckman saves chicks from a different entry.
Free Running. Levi Meeuwenberg showreel. Damien Waters’ kids. The Physics of Free Running. A lifestyle and an attitude.
Live Long And Prosper (Jewish origins)
Watch Us Now
Slow Loris Loves Getting Tickled
Sorry I’m Late (How it was made).
“Hey Jude” (courtesy of T-Mobile)
Trailer for 2081 (based on Kurt Vonnegut’s short Harrison Bergeron)
Trailer for The Road (based of Cormac McCarthy’s novel)
Trailer for Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes
Then for a growing up geek film, ‘77
We Came To Play (Pong)
FWIW: The scariest and weirdest spiders on the planet.
Birds of Europe. Birds of North America. Birds of Australia. Birds of Africa. Flickr Field Guide. Google’s Similar Images. Cornell Lab of Ornithology now has an online guide to birds. Check.
For a field guide to freeway interchanges, check out Infrastructurist (part 2).
The only thing that cooks better is a woman.
Clay Shirky on Love, Internet Style
Mapping Sound at the British Library
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By | April 30, 2009
After a wet and cold April, I am looking forward to those promised May flowers.
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This month…
Blog Roll: The Ass’s Dilemma; The Failure of #Amazonfail; Hostile Takeover; In The Jaws Of A Catfish; Bananaz; Microkahn; The Exact Opposite Is True…
Cooking: Historic Foods; 50 Best Dessert Recipes; Ruhlman’s Ratio; Great Cilantro Divide; Cooking With Dog; Cochon 555…
Design: Vave Jon; Hemlock 82; Our Middle Name; Director’s Commentary; Web Trend Map 4; Awful Package Redesign; Ten Graphic Design Paradoxes…
History: Nature vs. Nurture; Around Cape Horn; How I rewrote Polish History; Finding Everett Ruess; Modern America’s Founding Father; Witness To Three Revolutions…
Language Arts: What Are Writers Reading; Entrapment; The Genius of Yogi Berra; Voices And Visions; The Final Edition; Understanding Twitter; The Sentence Is A Lonely Place…
Music: Tone Matrix; Soul; We Got Time; Wynton Marsalis; Papaya; Zen and the art of songwriting; Storm…
Pics: Wild Wonderes of Europe; International Photography Contest; Snad Grains; Quiet Ripples; Daring Divas; 10,000 Year Clock; Kevin Carter…
Science: Attenborough; What Would It Look Like To Fall Into A Black Hole; Puijita darvini; The Rebellion of the Ant Slaves; Ice Baby; The Secret Social Life of Bacteria…
Spin Zone: 10 Principles For A Black Swan-Proof World; Christopher Hitchens Smackdown; PJ O’Rourke; Worth A REad; Last Man Standing…
Travel: Curious Expeditions Goes To The Smithsonian; The Forbidden Railway
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This Month’s Web Bytes
Just added to the Map Guide: Remotest Place - NewScientist reports on the remotest place on earth; Maps; the pick: Tibetan Plateau.
Just added to the Education Guide: Public Collections - Site archives collections of things you might otherwise never be able to see at your public library; Adult Mexican Comics; Marc Fisher’s record collection; Bibles stolen from hotel rooms.
What’s Ken Burns up to next? Kind of makes me want to take a trip. First, though, dress for the part.
Julie and Julia Trailer
Writing With Libel In Mind (Citizen)
Think you’ve got balance?
Then, something down to earth, CycleKarting (You can’t buy a CycleKart and, even if you could, the racers wouldn’t let you participate. You have to build your CycleKart.)
The first bike trick ever recorded: Thomas Edison of course. Then, there’s this guy MacAskill today.
MovNat: why just take a walk in the woods when you can exercize as well.
Bacon is the other white heat (Theo Gray)
Top 10 Reasons Managers Become Great
The 7 Basic Principles of Magic (Penn & Teller).
Your Business Card Is Crap (Infotainer). (He could teach my wife how to pack, however.) Back on track, what’s the primary purpose…to open doors, list your services or leave a lasting impression?
Is Your Company Designed For Humans? (Harvard)
Subsidized Time? How about, subsidized pot holes.
What’s Happening (Sprint)
2008 Pigasus Awards: A cornucopia of crackpots! A plethora of psychos! A surfeit of screwballs!
When I was growing up we had erector sets. Never would or could I have imagined A-Pod.
119 cheat sheets for some of the most widely used tools on the web.
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The New Internet Eclectic
By | April 1, 2009
Still cold and wet much of the time, which means a little browsing time is in the offing…
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This month…
Blog Roll: Better Than Free; ImHerHusband; Lone Gunman; The Problem With Robotic Warfare; Money Talks; The Cute cat Theory Talk; Bob Cluster’s Funny Stuff.
Cooking: Gordon Ramsey; History of Breakfast in America; The Story of the American Mixologist; Tournament of Beef; Perfect Portions; Locavore 1.0; Glorious Food Myths…
Design: The Essence Of Line; 8 Everyday Objects That Need Fixing; After The Crisis; Kinetica Art Fair; Evolution of Art & Design 1845-1980; How Designers Fail; Crisalides…
History: Virtual Laboratory; Voices Froom The 1930’s; The World’s Longest Undefended Border; Whose Father Was He?; Historical Comics; Memorable Dates In The Hhistory of WWW…
Language Arts: Family Words; Alison Brechtel’s Book Review; Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue; Nick Hornby’s Reading Life; The “Raiders” Story Conference; Raymond Chandler’s 50 Years Dead…
Music: Stephen Sondheim; Leonard Bernstein; Low Light Mixes; Nano Song; Fuzz 01; The Alchemists of Sound; Rockin The DNA; Classic Arcade Sounds…
Pics: America; Underwater Photography; Mechanical Icon; Photographic Dictionary; Extravagant Crowd; Julius Shulman; Otzi The Iceman; Antarctic Fox…
Science: Holy Land; Microscope Imaging Station; TVN; Hacking The Sky; The Civil Heretic; Cosmos; Building the 21st-Century Mind; Quantum Friction…
Spin Zone: How The Crash Will Reshape America; Towards Theocracy; Legalize Drugs To Stop The Violence
Travel: All Baedeker; The Hippie Trail
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This Month’s Web Bytes
Just added to the Map Guide:Holy Land Maps - Holy land maps and ancient maps of Jerusalem; 1492 Perspective of Jerusalem, 1482 Ptomely of the Middle East, 1751 Map of Egypt, Arabia & Middle East.
Just added to the Garden Guide: 1943 ABC of Victory Gardens - A great resource for learning how to start one of your own.
Demoing the 6th Sense (TED)
Centraal Station Antwerpen gaat uit zijn dak! (Try not to smile…)
Inside all of us is a Wild Thing (trailer).
Friction welding (pictures, video).
Check out the invasion of the hummingbirds. Or, for that matter, painted ladies.
Woomba (Saturday Night Live)
5 Second Films (Wasting your time, but not very much.)
Interactive Narratives is designed to capture the best of online visual storytelling as practiced by online and print journalists.
If you don’t like your commute, watch Two Angry Camels
Is This The Real Shakespeare? The New Republic’s slideshow.
Harpers asks: Um, uh, what? Which is to say: what?!
Brooklyn Revealed Spite Houses (the architectural equivalent of the middle finger).
Just the opposite, kinda, is 100 Great Spaces (AD)
Then, check out the Stockholm Public Library (by architect Gunner Asplund)
European Green Belt…The ‘Iron Curtain’ divided Eastern and Western Europe for almost 40 years cutting off contacts between people on both sides. Nature seized the deserted border areas. Today a string of beautiful habitats with rare plants and animals connects European landscapes and forms a living monument of European history.
Best of Craigslist - No Sex Tonight
On a roll, You Suck At Craigslist
Web Tech Guy And Angry Staff Person (Smithsonian2.0).
Not related exactly, but SFX How To Steal $100 Million In Loose Diamonds
The hummingbird whisperer
Just added to Map Guide: Experimental Geography - Book review: “A photo of a secret CIA prison. A map designed to help visitors reach Malibu’s notoriously inaccessible public beaches. Guidebooks to factories, prisons, and power plants in upstate New York. These are some of the more than one hundred projects represented in Experimental Geography, a groundbreaking collection of visual research and mapmaking from the past ten years.”
Also added to the Map Guide: Historic Cities - Maps and documents of the past, present and future of historic cities.
Just added to the Education Guide: AcademicEarth - Thousands of video lectures from the world of academia.
Also added to the Education Guide: Self Made Scholar - Self education resource with many links to online courses.
An uber collection of 100 things you should have already experienced on the internet unless your a loser or old or something.
Too Cute: ZooBorns
Cute film about communication: Signs
On a roll, here’s Eames on A Communication Primer
Mindfuck Movies (with lots of trailers).
Since I’ve never owned one, I never knew that rats have staring contests.
The heroes of British Comics (Paul Gravett).
Seed has short conversations at Seed Salon; Michael Shanks + Lynn Hershman Leeson.
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The New Internet Eclectic
By | March 1, 2009
Despite the allure of getting outside once more, if only a few times on those few days when the weather teases us with spring, there are sure to be many days where something inside is in the offing. Here, then, are some distractions worth a look…
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This month…
Blog Roll: Rules for an American fantasy road trip; A daily diary of Depression-era life; The hardest job in football; Frederic Krueger and the Eflite Blade mCX
Cooking: Color of Tea; 50 best food blogs; Steak a la Talouse; What’s Cooking; Chocolate Timeline; Super Spice; White House Chef Wars; Last Kerfuffle with Tariff…
Design: IDEO’s David Kelley Takes On His Biggest Challenge; 10 Commandments on Design; Smithsonian 2.0; Magenta Ain’t A Colour; How We Kill Geniuses; Snooty Designers…
History: Finding the lost city of Z; Dicken’s Refuge for Fallen Women; The Real Robinson Carusoe; The Red Prince Hapsburg; Historic ship wreck; Mono histories; Notgeld…
Language Arts: Phonetics; Classic Poetry Aloud; Speaking in tongues; The impotence of of Proofreading; Escaping The Caboose; Elements of a good story; From literature to the lab…
Music: Theolonius Monk’s Advice; Gravity; Why Music; FreeSound; Her Morning Elegance; Anna; Tea For Two…
Pics: Egypt; Visual Acoustics; Photo of the Year; Lost London; Found Lives; Photography-Now; 100 Meters of Existence; Kathryn Parker Almanas; LaPrincess in Liverpool…
Science: What Invasive Species Are Trying To Tell Us; Do gravity holes harbour planetary assassins; Where feather color comes from; Is mathematics the language of the universe; Sean Carroll…
Spin Zone: Fear The Kindle; Two Horsemen; Structured Lessons For And From Economics; Conservatism Is Dead; Harness the genie of citizen engagement; On the militant trail…
Travel: World’s Weirdest Hotels; Hints To Travelers; Linen Motel Postcards
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This Month’s Web Bytes
Just added to Map Guide: Experimental Geography - Book review: “A photo of a secret CIA prison. A map designed to help visitors reach Malibu’s notoriously inaccessible public beaches. Guidebooks to factories, prisons, and power plants in upstate New York. These are some of the more than one hundred projects represented in Experimental Geography, a groundbreaking collection of visual research and mapmaking from the past ten years.”
Also added to the Map Guide: Historic Cities - Maps and documents of the past, present and future of historic cities.
Just added to the Education Guide: AcademicEarth - Thousands of video lectures from the world of academia.
Also added to the Education Guide: Self Made Scholar - Self education resource with many links to online courses.
An uber collection of 100 things you should have already experienced on the internet unless your a loser or old or something.
Too Cute: ZooBorns
Cute film about communication: Signs
On a roll, here’s Eames on A Communication Primer
Mindfuck Movies (with lots of trailers).
Since I’ve never owned one, I never knew that rats have staring contests.
The heroes of British Comics (Paul Gravett).
Seed has short conversations at Seed Salon; Michael Shanks + Lynn Hershman Leeson.
Surchur is a new search what’s hot site using Yahoo Pipes
Red Bull Racing has put together a 2 minute video explaining F1 Racing Rule Changes that’s worth a look (Wired).
Understanding Comics (TED Talks).
Andrew Stanton Interview (WALL-E/Finding Nemo)
Hot Wheels (…all about building bigger ferris wheels at the Smart Set) Here’s Germany’s Great Berlin Wheel.
Visit Emmet Labs and then tell stories about how connected people are.
DiRT (Digital Research Tools) is a wiki for social scientists.
Glass topped pool table (scroll down to view video)
Joe Ades, NYC potato peeler man, RIP; hawking his wares, but never fear, you can find one on Amazon.
What are the new liberal arts? Snarkmarket is looking for 2.0 ideas to include in a new ebook.
Just added to the Webits Guide:Internet Bird Collection - Large and growing collection of films capturing the known (10000) species; from the arctic tern, the Blue Whistling-thrush, or a pair of American Avocets mating to more exotic species such as the Hoazin.
PhilPapers contains nearly 200,000 online papers on philosophy.
9 Month Old Plays With Toys is mesmerizing.
Canada’s National Film Board Screening Room is a treasure trove of yesteryear: The Sweater; The Log Driver’s Waltz; The Cat Came Back; or simply go to playlists where folks list their favorites.
BBC’s cockpit view of flight 1549 water landing.
Matt Harding, of Where The Hell Is Matt fame, comes clean.
Hochbetrieb is silent slapstick that ran during the 2003 international film circuit (aka “nuts and bolts”).
All 17 original episodes (1967) of The Prisoner can be found on AMC.
Track Stars: The Unseen Heroes of Movie Sound
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The New Internet Eclectic
By | February 1, 2009
While we can not yet see the snow drifts suffering the onslaught of spring, by the end of February we surely will. In the meantime, enjoy…
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This month…
Blog Roll: Old Jews Telling Jokes; How Porsche Hacked The Financial System; In Defense of David Derby; Regarding The Personal Web; Choosing Not To Choose; Robots At War…
Cooking: Great Chefs; Table of Condiments; A Meal In Venice; Pie; Regional Pizza Styles; 10 emerging Flavor Duos; 8 Variations on Meatloaf.
Design: The Art of Golf Course Architecture; Paul Rand dot com; Book Cover Archive; Hard Format; Hey Good Looking; Oblique Strategies; A Space Journey In Time…
History: Papers of the War Department 1784-1800; The Story of India; History of the Internet; 2008 Cliopatria Awards; The Future of the American Frontier; Political Party…
Language Arts: The World’s Best Passenger Complaint Letter; By Any Other Name; Cursive, Foiled Again; The Graveyard Book; Funny Personal Ads; Save The Words; In Praise of Slowness…
Music: Betty Freeman; If I Had A Heart; Structures Sonores; Nina Simone; Sound Therapy; Notes From the Chairman; Stakker/Aphix Twins; Hard Format.
Pics: Volumetric Cinematography; Tin Eye; Seeing Eye To Eye; Ghosts of the Faithful Departed; Sky In Motion; Cloud Projections; Earth Observed; Visual Acoustics; Moore’s Law Illustrated…
Science: How To Think About Science; Soils; The Open Universe; The Invention of Air; The Pleasure of Thinking Things Out; Top 10 Accidental Inventions; The Flesh of Physics…
Spin Zone: Memo To All White House Staff; The Last Professor; The End of the Financial World As We Know It; RIP Reverend Richard John Neuhaus; Audience Atomization Overcome…
Travel: Offbeat Guides; TopEventsUSA; Travel Film Archive; 2009 Top 10 Dirtiest Hotels.
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This Month’s Web Bytes
Just added to the Webits Guide:Internet Bird Collection - Large and growing collection of films capturing the known (10000) species; from the arctic tern, the Blue Whistling-thrush, or a pair of American Avocets mating to more exotic species such as the Hoazin.
PhilPapers contains nearly 200,000 online papers on philosophy.
9 Month Old Plays With Toys is mesmerizing.
Canada’s National Film Board Screening Room is a treasure trove of yesteryear: The Sweater; The Log Driver’s Waltz; The Cat Came Back; or simply go to playlists where folks list their favorites.
BBC’s cockpit view of flight 1549 water landing.
Matt Harding, of Where The Hell Is Matt fame, comes clean.
Hochbetrieb is silent slapstick that ran during the 2003 international film circuit (aka “nuts and bolts”).
All 17 original episodes (1967) of The Prisoner can be found on AMC.
Track Stars: The Unseen Heroes of Movie Sound
The greatest thing that’s happened in football coverage? The yellow line. A detailed explanation of how its done. More about the technical details needed to be solved.
Create your own disposable webpage.
Songsmith’s video speaks for itself.
Top 50 Movie Special Effects Shots
Each December, the United States National Film Preservation Board chooses up to 25 films they deem worthy of taking special action to preserve in the Library of Congress. It’s a new year, and that means 25 more films are welcomed in the vault of the National Film Registry. Three of the 2008 picks can be viewed on the Archive as well as nearly 40 picks from years past.
Just added to the Map Guide:Napoleon - Yes, that Napoleon’s military maps; the maps are on a scale of 1:50,000 or better and provide details of terrain and unit deployments. Also added: Martian Maps (in pdf)
On a theme: A cartography boom offers new ways to see the world.
Museum of Moving Images and their Pinewood Dialogues.
Snow Day at the Zoo (Elephant fun at 2:30).
The Tibetan Book of the Dead 1-10
In honor of the winter solstice, here’s the Digital Snow Museum, the National Snow and Ice Data Center and Snow Crystals dot com. Or, from an historical perspective, here’s Ice: A Victorian Romance.
An archive of slowed-down “drunk” Jeff Goldblum
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The New Internet Eclectic
By | January 1, 2009
All I can say is good riddance ‘08…
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This month…
Blog Roll: Triumph of Derrierism; 3.0 Accelerating Change; Techgnosis; Butterfly Hunter; The Idea of the Writer; A signiture Cadence
Cooking: InMamasKitchen, Jacques Pepin; 10 Best Foods You Aren’t Eating; The iPod of Apples; How to eat spaghetti; The Origins of General Tso; Food Timeline…
Design: How Do You Design; Artists Books Online; Design Highlights ‘08; 5 Best Data Visualization Projects of 2008; 2009 Color of the Year; Quotes on Design…
History: Battle of Verdun; London Transport Museum; Popcorn; The Legend of the Stranger In Alexandria; Great and Telling Tales of Timothy Dickinson; The Italian Underground…
Language Arts: Project Management Lingo; 2008 Buzzwords; What Obama’s 27 year old speechwriter learned from George Bush; Atlas of True Names; Am I still Here…
Music: Billy Jean; Grace Jones In Chocolate; Weather Channel Music…
Pics: The Year In Pictures; Short & Sweet Film Challenge; A homeless man on Queen Street; National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest Winners; 20 Bioscape Contest Photos…
Science: Parliamentary Office of Science & Technology; The President’s Guide to Science; Climate Revelations; The Orienting Stone; Darwin’s Living Legacy…
Spin Zone: Roger Evert on the ‘57 Studebaker Golden Hawke; Joseph Stiglitz on Capitalistic Fools; Paul Krugman’s Nobel Speech; Work Ethic 2.0 - Attention Control; Reboot the FCC…
Travel: The Lure of the Open Road; Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor
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This Month’s Web Bytes
Just added to the Map Guide:Napoleon - Yes, that Napoleon’s military maps; the maps are on a scale of 1:50,000 or better and provide details of terrain and unit deployments. Also added: Martian Maps (in pdf)
On a theme: A cartography boom offers new ways to see the world.
Museum of Moving Images and their Pinewood Dialogues.
Snow Day at the Zoo (Elephant fun at 2:30).
The Tibetan Book of the Dead 1-10
In honor of the winter solstice, here’s the Digital Snow Museum, the National Snow and Ice Data Center and Snow Crystals dot com. Or, from an historical perspective, here’s Ice: A Victorian Romance.
An archive of slowed-down “drunk” Jeff Goldblum
Micro-boredom and mobile apps.
SnagFilms has over 500 free documentaries.
The Questions We Never Answered (Slate).
40 Motivational Speeches in 2 Minutes.
You don’t have to be a Rockefeller to collect art: Herb & Dorothy.
8th Annual Year In Ideas 2008 (NYT).
The online tool inspired by the flame (Fire Meets Desire).
Ever pop the bubble wrap bubbles? Ingenious: Bubble Calendar
British Acadenmy of Film & Television Arts - online archives include The Making of Laurence of Arabia.
Google Magazine Archive: Popular Science, New York Magazine, Ebony, et al. Spellbound and Thomas Gruber have compiled a starting list of titles.
The Hellstrom Chronicle is now on YouTube.
Selfcontrolfreak (video interactivity)
Video and audio of solid rocket booster (video gets good around 1:50/adjust volume accordingly). Video from other booster. More spaceflight videos here. NASA videos here.
10 Websites With Which To Waste Your Time At Work
I found Color In Motion to be the best new site, followed by Elevator Moods.
Rex’s List of Lists 2008
Then, Wiki’s List of Common Misconceptions
XWord Info is to NYT crossword puzzles what J-Archive is to Jeopardy.
Lockheed Martin’s Multiple Kill Vehicle
6 Vignettes of scenes in the upcoming Coraline.
At Change.gov you can share your vision. The GOP responds.
Indefence: thousands of Icelanders send British PM Gordon Brown postcards assuring him they are not terrorists.
Ricky Gervais on Humpty Dumpty
Playing ping pong with nunchucks.
Matchstick fly-powered airplane
Look, a meteor! Fire in the sky. Don’t get too close.
Where did all the acorns go? What is a mast year? A dry winter ahead?
The world’s tallest bridge is nearing completion…
The Man At The Door (WashingtonPost).
Lots of Kudos to Father and Daughter (2000). Bonus: The Monk & The Fish.
Kvetch! (bitch, bitch, bitch)
The Vendee Globe is a competition of mind-boggling endurance, where sailors are alone for three months and cannot get any outside help, nor set foot on land for the entire duration. Guide. Virtual Vendee Globe.
Capucine’s “Once Upon A Time…” (very cute French girl’s fairy tale includes subtitles).
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The New Internet Eclectic
By | December 1, 2008
If you can find the time in your hectic schedule this holiday season, there’s much worth looking at from last month’s web browsing…
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This month…
Blog Roll: Charlie Brooker’s Screenswipe
Cooking: Alphabet for Gourmets; Open Sesame; Recipes of Famous Americans; A Short History of the Bagel; A Seafood Snob Ponders The Future of Fish; Hail Caesar; Ensuring the future of food…
Design: Winnie The Pooh; Art & Architecture; Barrels of Art; The Face of Leonardo da Vinci; FLOW; Box to play; safety pictorials; The Man Behind The Faces; Alebrijes…
History: Historic Pittsburgh; The Uses of Adversity; Five Centuries of Board Games; The Ideal Colonist; Feel The Noise; The Evolution of Pabst Blue Ribbon Advertising…
Language Arts: A-Z of English Words with Surprising Origins; That Which or What; Sine Wave Speech; Jim Dale; Brenin; Frank Sinatra Has A Cold; Bruno Schultz; Ezra Klein…
Music: Playing For Change; Mozart’s Symphony No. 40; Gnarls Barkley; Jamie Foxx; The Tone Generation; Dream Baby Dream; Alice In Wonderland; Afro Blue…
Pics: Robert Frank’s The Americans; Life Magazine photo archive; WWI color archive; International Festival of Photojournalism; Hiroshima; Demarco Digital Archive…
Science: Top 10 Amazing Biology Videos; Journal of Visualized Experiments; Nukes In Space; Golf Swing Secrets; The Serpent Project; Giant Roaming Protist; Why Is A Raven Like A Writing Desk…
Shopping Robert Talbots Wooden Guns Zucchetti Z94XL Shower Head; But is it Art; Windowshop; 20×200; and several 2008 shopping guides…
Spin Zone: Policy Archive; Let Us Be Thankful; Stop The Remake; George Soros; Secrets of Talk Radio; The End of Wall Street; Paul Krugman; The Economist…
Travel: The Hoh; Hiking the Appalachian Trail; the Spreuer Bridge and the Dance of Death; Socora Island; 10 Oddest Travel Guides; Indulgence and Sin; Taj Mahal; Ian Hibell, RIP
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This Month’s Web Bytes
At Change.gov you can share your vision. The GOP responds.
Indefence: thousands of Icelanders send British PM Gordon Brown postcards assuring him they are not terrorists.
Ricky Gervais on Humpty Dumpty
Playing ping pong with nunchucks.
Matchstick fly-powered airplane
Look, a meteor! Fire in the sky. Don’t get too close.
Where did all the acorns go? What is a mast year? A dry winter ahead?
The world’s tallest bridge is nearing completion…
The Man At The Door (WashingtonPost).
Lots of Kudos to Father and Daughter (2000). Bonus: The Monk & The Fish.
Kvetch! (bitch, bitch, bitch)
The Vendee Globe is a competition of mind-boggling endurance, where sailors are alone for three months and cannot get any outside help, nor set foot on land for the entire duration. Guide. Virtual Vendee Globe.
Capucine’s “Once Upon A Time…” (very cute French girl’s fairy tale includes subtitles).
The New Millenium Paper Airplane Contest
Pillowdrome: 1. Players take their positions on opposite sides of the circular course. 2. Each player balances a pillow on their head. For the duration of the game they may not again touch the pillow with their hands. 3. Play begins as soon as one player begins walking (“Sumo-style”). 4. Players move clockwise around the course.
Or, would you rather visit the Airbus A380 Cockpit?
YouTube Videos Andy Baio Linked To (of WAXY.org)
Must Watch: The Black Hole.
Letter of the Year (MikeRiversdale).
Michael Caine on acting in film (in 6 parts).
Archive of American Television Interviews…Alan Alda, Milton Berle, Julia Child…and on and on.
Listropolis (All Your Lists Are Belong To Us).
Digital Shadow - A Mind Bending Prediction.
China’s Forbidden City rendered virtually by IBM.
Listen to the history of ideas: In Our Time (BBC)
Of all the people in the world - a short video.
Trailer for the December release of Clint Eastwood’s latest Gran Torino.
Starling in plain English. Here’s another talented Starling. What you doing? Who’s There?
Cat Drinks Milk (Nom Nom)
Flow of Time (BBC): 1, 2, 3, 4
Charlie Brooker Tapping The Wire (2,3)
More fun: Return To Sender.
CICINA’s The Big Chart- the dialectic between more stuff vs less stuff (more choice = anarchy -vs- less choice = authority).
The 10 Most Brilliant Gadgets of 2008
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By | November 1, 2008
What with the run up to the election, planting beds to prepare for winter and some last minute house and car painting, there was still some time to find a lot of interest in October.
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This month…
Blog Roll: Words In English; Beyond The Reach of God; Ghlaghghee; The Nerd Handbook; Lilman House; Marina Hyde and Lily Allen…
Cooking: A Day at elBulli; Table Matters; picks from The French Laundry; BBQ Turkey; the hardest dinner reservation in America; TCHO Chocolate; Bittman…
Design: Infographic News; Hilda Magazine; Interactive Design Is Cool; Ilian Rchov; The Man Behind the MLB Logo; Rubitone; Adrian J=hnson; Typographic Fairy Tale; The Wall That Lou Dorfman Built…
History: The history of toilet paper; The invention of the fifties; One Hard Scrabble Sumbitch; The Story of Benjamin Darling; Smugglers Britian; The Great Epizootic of 1872; Preserving The Past…
Language Arts: Think Again; Quote Interesting; best sports journalism ever; Freedom’s Curse; 12 Virtues of Rationality; Don’t Trust Anyone Over 30; Why I blog…
Music: Ukulele Orchestra Plays Shaft; My Dear Country; jamming with the Police; Searching for Robert Johnson; biotech rap; Kwaito; The Rest Is Noise; If You Open Your Mind Too Much…
Pics: US Geologic Survey Photography Library; Verve; Refinery Flocks; William Claxton RIP; Literature Without Words; People Sleeping; Crystal Palace…
Science: Brief Digression On Matters of Lost Time; The Fastest Flights of Nature; Brave New Worlds; Recurring Science Misconceptions in Grade 6 Textbooks; The Creative Personality…
Spin Zone: Blahhuughhggaaah; Reversal of Fortune; Chalie Rose roundtable; 1932, 1968, 1980…2008; Pick the lesser of two evils…
Travel: Hiking the Appalachian Trail; the Spreuer Bridge and the Dance of Death; Socora Island; 10 Oddest Travel Guides; Indulgence and Sin; Taj Mahal; Ian Hibell, RIP
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This Month’s Web Bytes
Digital Shadow - A Mind Bending Prediction.
China’s Forbidden City rendered virtually by IBM.
Listen to the history of ideas: In Our Time (BBC)
Of all the people in the world - a short video.
Trailer for the December release of Clint Eastwood’s latest Gran Torino.
Starling in plain English. Here’s another talented Starling. What you doing? Who’s There?
Cat Drinks Milk (Nom Nom)
Flow of Time (BBC): 1, 2, 3, 4
Charlie Brooker Tapping The Wire (2,3)
More fun: Return To Sender.
CICINA’s The Big Chart- the dialectic between more stuff vs less stuff (more choice = anarchy -vs- less choice = authority).
The 10 Most Brilliant Gadgets of 2008
100 Skills Every Man Should Know (Popular Mechanics)
How an engineer folds a t-shirt (YouTube)
10 Most Confusing Traffic Signs
Nintendo partners with YouTube to create their very own YT page for their launch of the newest game.
And here’s a spot from Throntons - “Stuck”
Death and Taxes 2009 (is a representational poster of what your congressmen spend on discretionary items; full res scan here).
Track your stolen laptop with Adeona (Free/Open Source)
What does $700 Billion Buy (Newsday)
David Lynch on product placement…and on Tom Cruise.
Just added to Ideation Guide: Common Misconceptions of Statistics - BBC series: Surveys; Counting; Percentage; averages; causation.
Also: Visualizations - Chris Harrison Visualization projects; NYT/Stream Graph of Box Office Receipts; History of Visualization, Timeline of Timelines; Periodic Table of Visualization; Modern Approaches.
Just added to Map Guide: Album Atlas - Mapping the locations of album cover photos.
Just added to the Webits Guide: trapanswers is all about animal traps.
GetBodySmart - learn all about the skeletal, nervous, circulatory…even urinary systems.
RIP Paul Newman (Vanity Fair)
Deletionpedia - and what the Wiki has to say.
Google Chrome, in comic book form. Inside Chrome (Wired). The power user guide (Lifehacker).
Google’s official newspaper archive.
Then, here’s Google’s Project 10 to the 100th.
Wiki’s official List of Frivolous Political Parties.
How would you map out Why We Drink?
Bioshock creator Ken Levine PAX 08 talk about growing up a nerd, working in Hollywood, and ultimately finding his place in game design.
Telegraph: Futurologist predicts what’s in and what’s out over next 50 years.
Here today, walking desks (NYT) YouTube footage.
The School of Life. Monocle explains a bit more. How about a weekend away with Martin Parr? Or a holiday at Heathrow with Alain de Botton? Or a tour of the M1? Or are you just hungry for a little conversation?
Sophie Can Walk (BoingBoing)
Cute girl video (Hint: don’t give up until you get to flip flops, then you’ll start to get it…)
Watch out for the ninja cat! Uncyclopedia explains.
Anarkon. (Carl Bender’s Thesis Project)
Skateboarding Insanity (skip to 2:20).
Cambridge University’s Monstrous New Clock
Oktapodi HQ - and the making of Oktapodi. Want more Gobelins Animation Gallery goodness? Try Burning Safari. Or Pyrats, Cocotte Minute, Steam Team, Super Tibetan Racer.
Thank you for smoking (Trailer)…which gets us into title sequences, and which is the best ever, and my pick would be Six Feed Under.
Arcanalogue - Tarot In Plain Sight.
17 Minutes of deaf delight: Little Hands. The background.
Smugopedia - a collection of slightly controversial opinions about a variety of subjects. We offer you the chance to buy a fleeting sense of self-satisfaction at the small cost of alienating your friends and loved ones.
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By | October 2, 2008
A day late and $700 billion short (I really shouldn’t get myself started on this…) Hmm, while it’s true that I’m feeling a might poorer, there follows a wealth of great finds for your sustenance.
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This month…
Blog Roll: Fade To Narrative; Twelve Canoes; Newsless; The Federal Reserve Skateboard; The Cab Ride I’ll Never Forget
Cooking: Alinea; Squirrel Melts; Orgasm or Excellent Marinara; Cookie Madness; 3000 Eggplant Recipes…
Design: Hue Test; Causes of Color; Bass on Movie Titles; 50 Incredible Polish Film Posters; Typography For Lawyers; Visual Thinking; Noticing; Paul Rand’s Cigar Can…
History: Machiavelli’s Daring Gift; Mudlarks; History of the British Imagination; The First Founder; Visualizing Early Washington; History of Hurricane Names…
Language Arts: Chillax; Poetry Bailout Will Restore Confidence of Readers; Dark Side of the Dormitory; The Invention of Air; When Books Could Change Your Life; The Simple Art of Murder…
Music: A Critical Appraisal of Madness’s Videos; Who You Are Is What You Listen To; Noah and the Whale; Why Are Classical Music Concerts So Serious…
Pics: Photo Tampering Through History; Digital Journalist; John French; When Prague Spring Gave Way To Winter; Every Dew Drop Has Heaven In It…
Science: Weird Weird Science; Street Corner Science; Winners of Visualization Challenge; The Methane Time Bomb; Dark Flow; Brave New Worlds; Fingering What Makes Us Better…
Spin Zone: Kermalism; Right At The Edge; Presidential Crimes; Bernard-Henry Levy’s Latest Salvo; America’s Economic Myths; Adonis on Islam…
Travel: Socora Island; 10 Oddest Travel Guides; Indulgence and Sin; Taj Mahal; Ian Hibell, RIP
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This Month’s Web Bytes
Just added to Ideation Guide: Common Misconceptions of Statistics - BBC series: Surveys; Counting; Percentage; averages; causation.
Also: Visualizations - Chris Harrison Visualization projects; NYT/Stream Graph of Box Office Receipts; History of Visualization, Timeline of Timelines; Periodic Table of Visualization; Modern Approaches.
Just added to Map Guide: Album Atlas - Mapping the locations of album cover photos.
Just added to the Webits Guide: trapanswers is all about animal traps.
GetBodySmart - learn all about the skeletal, nervous, circulatory…even urinary systems.
RIP Paul Newman (Vanity Fair)
Deletionpedia - and what the Wiki has to say.
Google Chrome, in comic book form. Inside Chrome (Wired). The power user guide (Lifehacker).
Google’s official newspaper archive.
Then, here’s Google’s Project 10 to the 100th.
Wiki’s official List of Frivolous Political Parties.
How would you map out Why We Drink?
Bioshock creator Ken Levine PAX 08 talk about growing up a nerd, working in Hollywood, and ultimately finding his place in game design.
Telegraph: Futurologist predicts what’s in and what’s out over next 50 years.
Here today, walking desks (NYT) YouTube footage.
The School of Life. Monocle explains a bit more. How about a weekend away with Martin Parr? Or a holiday at Heathrow with Alain de Botton? Or a tour of the M1? Or are you just hungry for a little conversation?
Sophie Can Walk (BoingBoing)
Cute girl video (Hint: don’t give up until you get to flip flops, then you’ll start to get it…)
Watch out for the ninja cat! Uncyclopedia explains.
Anarkon. (Carl Bender’s Thesis Project)
Skateboarding Insanity (skip to 2:20).
Cambridge University’s Monstrous New Clock
Oktapodi HQ - and the making of Oktapodi. Want more Gobelins Animation Gallery goodness? Try Burning Safari. Or Pyrats, Cocotte Minute, Steam Team, Super Tibetan Racer.
Thank you for smoking (Trailer)…which gets us into title sequences, and which is the best ever, and my pick would be Six Feed Under.
Arcanalogue - Tarot In Plain Sight.
17 Minutes of deaf delight: Little Hands. The background.
Smugopedia - a collection of slightly controversial opinions about a variety of subjects. We offer you the chance to buy a fleeting sense of self-satisfaction at the small cost of alienating your friends and loved ones.
Trailer for upcoming Bond film Quantum of Solace.
Then there’s Nemo Gould, a kinetic sculptor who does robots, who morph into Little Big Man - all out of general debris.
Do I need a jacket today? Umbrella Today? Sandwich today?
Guide to geography and climate for each of the states.
Just added to Ideation Guide: Powerset- A keyword index for searching help in Wikipedia.
Just added to Map Guide - Hand Drawn Map Association.
Speaking of the map guide, National Geographic has Map Of The Day.
Want even a bit more? 3 Controversial Maps (MentalFloss).
Culture11 - “we wanted to be as open minded as any center left publication, but on the center right.”
WildFilmHistory - 100 Years of Wildlife Filmmaking
Now, more recently and just completed, Making The Wire. And here’s a talk that David Simon, the series creator, gave on the thesis behind the show.
And now, the trailor for GOOD.
Humans Helping Computers (BostonGlobe)
Then, Ubiquity (Mozilla Labs) is a first step toward the semantic web of promise. A video demonstration and a tutorial.
Photosynth is live
5 Mysterious Historical Artifacts.
Then, The Disturbing Origins of 5 Common Nursery Rhymes
Adam Savage is fascinated with the Dodo Bird (Google video)
Top 10 Declassified Secrets (List Verse)
A Study of Women Inventors (FutureSpeaker)
Best Visual Illusion of the Year.
Community Mottos and Nicknames and Slogans (searchable)
Interactive Mathematical Visualizations
Beloit College’s annual Mindset List
How Buildings Learn (6 Part Series, the book)
Top 100 Undiscovered Websites (PC Magazine)…such as SearchMe (visual search), SeriousEats (Lifestyle) and Everyscape (Onine Mapping).
Internet Bird Collection. A free video handbook of birds from around the world.
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