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The New Internet Eclectic
By | May 1, 2008
April showers have indeed brought May flowers, and a lot of other wonderful things to look at.
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This month…
Blog Roll: Stuff Nobody Likes; Biobigotry; More From Less; Take Control of Your Maps; Gin, TV and Social Surplus
Cooking: Cultural Phenomenon of Chinese Food; The Myth of the 30-Minute Meal; Clarkson Eats an Ortolon Bunting; Chef Owners Who Work The Line…
Design: Design Conferences - Isn’t it time we demanded more; Chaos In The Printshop; Don’t Buy This Book; Droste Effect Packaging…
History: Old Walt; Paul Revere; John Brown; To Catch A Thief; Whatever Happened To Old Europe; Ezra Pound - Foreign Correspondent…
Language Arts: The End Of The Line; Sleuths In Love; Separated By A Common Language; Eighteenth Century Bling; A Tipsy Picaresque…
Music: How To Write A Song; Inside Dylan’s Brain; The Dakah Orchestra; Music Expression; The Big Bang; Tonori-On.
Pics: Eclectic 2.0; Robert Frank’s Unsentimental Journey; Novodevichy; Photogenic Print; Nature’s Best
Science: Attack on the clones; Biolumenesence; Galactic Collisions; Modeling The Future; Rogue Waves; Sods Law; Ice Nine…
Spin Zone: The Rise of Chinese Capitalism; An American Backlash; China Monolith Narrative; China’s Building Boom; Whole New China; Or Is It?
Travel: Dream Works; The World’s Scariest Runways; Yatt’it.
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This Week’s Web Bytes
Ways of Seeing, Part 1 Episode 1, the BBC documentary written and hosted by novelist and art critic John Berger, is back up on YouTube. Watch it while you can. Scroll down to bottom of page here for all links.
Malric Kittens (YT)
Part 1, Part 2 of audio interview with Stanley Kubrik discussing his early days. (Here’s the trailer for Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. It was done by a fellow named Pablo Ferro; it was his first movie trailer. Steven Heller writes: After seeing Ferro’s commercials, Kubrick hired him to direct the advertising trailers and teasers for Dr. Strangelove and convinced him to resettle in London (Kubrick’s base of operations until he died there in March 1999). Ferro was inclined to be peripatetic anyway, and ever anxious to bypass already completed challenges he agreed to pull up stakes on the chance that he would get to direct a few British TV commercials, which he did. The black and white spot that Ferro designed for Dr. Strangelove employed his quick-cut technique — using as many as 125 separate images in a minute — to convey both the dark humor and the political immediacy of the film. At something akin to stroboscopic speed words and images flew across the screen to the accompaniment of loud sound effects and snippets of ironic dialog. At a time when the bomb loomed so large in the US public’s fears (remember Barry Goldwater ran for President promising to nuke China), and the polarization of left and right — east and west — was at its zenith, Ferro’s commercial was not only the boldest and most hypnotic graphic on TV, it was a sly subversive statement. Ferro also worked on the iconic main titles for the film. Ferro went on to make several well-known movie title sequences, including those for Bullitt, the original The Thomas Crown Affair, and To Die For, as well as on the trailer for A Clockwork Orange.)
I Love The Whole World (Discovery Channel)
Charting the Uncanny Valley (Part 1 of 7)
Breaking the Record Mentos and Coke Explosions.
2008 Cherry Blossom Timelapse. (Brooklyn Botanic Garden)
Is Mathematics Discovered Or Invented?
If you are at all afraid of heights, don’t watch El camino del Rey.
Data Visualization blogs you might not know about.
Pie Jesu by Andrew Johnston (13) in Britain’s Got Talent follows in the footsteps of Paul Potts singing Nessum Dorma.
Trailer for Glass - A Portrait of Philip in 12 Parts.
Tales of Two Cities: Building cities from scratch in the Middle East. (Slate)
Stephen Fry and the Gutenberg Press. A six part BBC series. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Stephen travels to France and Germany on the trail of Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press and early media entrepreneur. Along the way he discovers the lengths Gutenberg went to keep his project secret, explores the role of avaricious investors and unscrupulous competitors, and discovers why printing mattered so much in medieval Europe.
The Donald Rumsfeld Quotes of the Decade (Radio 4).
Not really sure whether this should make the list. I just saw this trailer for Hancock on the tube last night and thought ‘Hadn’t we all had enough of Will Smith being a burned out super cool super hero, when stumbling around this a.m. I discovered it’s actually the second trailer. The first is here.
What I’ve Learned (Vint Cerf at Esquire)
How is Mazda going to destroy 4703 cars?
Natural Phenomenon (Vanity Fair) In 2000, six world-renowned architects competed for the commission to build the new California Academy of Sciences building, in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Five of the six arrived for the interview with the academy’s board of trustees bearing a large scale model to illustrate their proposals. The sixth, Renzo Piano, showed up with just a sketchpad. The 70-year-old Piano, who is tall, bearded, and the distillation of charm, had walked around Golden Gate Park for a while and then had climbed onto the roof of one of the old, condemned buildings, which had been damaged in the 1989 earthquake. “It was a very bad roof, in pieces,” Piano says, “but I could see views of the surrounding hills, and I was in among the treetops of the park.” When the architect came down, he had a simple drawing: several curved green lines, looking like hills, above a straight line, representing the ground. It didn’t really look like a building at all—more like a park without a building.
Piano got the job.
Turbonique. For those seriously needing a turbo drag axle, or if you’ve got a tobacco fortune in your back pocket.
Das Rad (The Wheel) is an 8:00 animated short film on the nature of time as told by two rock piles on a hillside.
50 Greatest Comedy Sketches (Nerve)
Download free documentaries online at Freedocumentaries.org
An Engineer’s Guide To Cats. Of course, not everyone is a cat fancier…in which case, perhaps Jerry can teach you something.
Eagle vs. Goat is both disturbing and fascinating.
Previous Web Bytes
Best Story Ever. Site has both good and lame stories galore.
Train your memory with Mnemonic Arts. Who’s Ramon Llull?
18 Minutes With An Agile Mind (Clifford Stoll on TED Talks)
Hammer Quiz. Guess what each is used for. Answers after the pics.
Atoll Gallery (slow loading gallery of 247 atolls).
Henry Miller - Bathroom Chronicles. Part 2. Part 3 and follow on. (Links to Henry Miller.)(MeFi)
Simply Google - all Google features listed on one page.
Brain Rules - 12 brain rules that share what we know about the brain and what me might do about it.
Supercharge the right click function of your mouse (Windows Explorer). And, while on a roll, 91 Utilities to Supercharge Windows (PC Magazine)
Comparison of MetaFilter comments vs. YouTube comments.
Saul Griffith Wattzon’s “Redefining Climate Change As An Engineering Challenge.”
This is Charley. 2:00 YouTube Goodness.
Easter, Purim, Persian New Year and Spring recipes. Will any believer be left with out a chance to cook something up?
The idea of dragging the early 1900s parlour game Exquisite Corpse into the 21st century and applying it to the very small screen of personal media players is spawning an ongoing series of scripts and films, with a different director picking up where the other left off. The concept of an interconnected, content driven and non-linear film series made specifically for download to iPhones, iPods and Sony PSPs, which would not only entertain, but give directors the chance to stretch their imaginations, appealed to Little Minx… the eyes of everyman upon her she turns back and faces forward, at peace she walked calmly disappearing into the darkness without missing a beat, she asks, “Want waffles for breakfast?” she stares longingly at what she had lost
10 Greatest Stolen Ideas In The Web.
Siezure Warning: download Kings of Power 4 Billion % - 12 AVI from Pixel artist Paul Robertson at risk from much flash.
While I don’t normally highlight flash on this site, this flash is something else.
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