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By | June 1, 2008
I can’t believe its already the start of summer. (In part because spring in these parts has been so wet and cold. To paraphrase Garrison Keilor, after you spend a spring in Wisconsin, you’ve got to let your eyes adjust to the light…you look like a lemur.) Nonetheless, June is back and I gladly share these finds from the month that was May.
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This month…
Blog Roll: The Brilliant Sergio Viera de Mello; The FreeFall Research Page; Everything You Wanted To Know About X; Today, we learn about Canada…
Cooking: The Problem With Top Chef Season 4; Mark Bittman; Herve This; How the ‘47 Cheval Blanc got to be the best wine ever; saltiest dish in America…
Design: 5 Rules of Book Cover Design; Konstfack College spot; A Potpourri of Production Design; Francis Bacon in 6 parts; Michael Beirut…
History: Everyone’s A Historian now; History of Money; History of the Color Wheel; History as a weapon; A People’s History of the United States…
Language Arts: Joseph Bottum on phonesthemes; Jon Fried’s Definitions; Cannabis, Forgetting and the Botany of Desire; The Library In The New Age…
Music: How To Write A Song; Inside Dylan’s Brain; The Dakah Orchestra; Music Expression; The Big Bang; Tonori-On.
Pics: Sea Slugs; Albert Kahn; 21 Best Mug Shots Ever
Science: Mars in high res; Cosmic Voyage; From Eye to Sight; 20 Things You Didn’t Know About Relativity; Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope…
Spin Zone: Everything You Love You Owe To Capitalism; Pride is Empty; The Rise of the Rest; What do a billion Muslims really think; The worst political TV spot…
Travel: Dream Works; The World’s Scariest Runways; Yatt’it.
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This Month’s Web Bytes
Just added to the Map Guide: Ruminations (Ruminations on the borderlands of cartography - New York Map Society.)
Mentat Wiki is up: Memory techniques, tools for critical thinking, creative thinking and much, much more.
The Birth Clock. I just love everything about it! Here’s another clever one: Analogy by Jesson Yip. Yet another that spells out the time.
Play Mission Planet: As the Executive Director of Planet Earth, you will manage seven film crews around the globe to acquire never before seen footage for this groundbreaking new series from Discovery Channel.
This is starting to go viral: Bluegrass Darth Vader. This is attempting to go viral: 10 Optical Illusions in 2 Minutes (Samsung Promo). Here’s one I think should find it’s way - Block of Glass.
Architectural blogs abound on the net. For those who read those, first watch this, then read this
New Acropolis Museum (NY Times slideshow)
How a drunk Scotsman invented golf (Robin Williams) NSFW launguage
Koyaanisqatsi (Life Out Of Balance). I’d watch just to hear Philip Glass.
On May 25, Victor Bugliosi (Helter Skelter) is releasing his newest book.
The National Trust For Historic Preservation has released its Most Endangered list.
Flight of Fancy. Migration is underway. Attenborough video. Ruby-Throated Hummingbird. Here’s one I get in my backyard. I’ve never seen a swarm, although I’ve witnessed battles. I think it’s time to get more feeders. Want to learn how to attract more to your yard?
Marketing to women is as simple as Y O G U R T.
First you tell your joke, then go here for the rim shot.
La Cabina (The Telephone Box) 1, 2, 3, 4 (Emmy Award Winning Short)
Spike Jonez feature length skateboarding video Yeah Right.
A Mathematician’s Lament. (pdf)
Hollywood Chinese: Arthur Dong’s look at how Chinese American’s are portrayed in film.
Deep State Coup Averted In Turkey. Below the Fold.
1 Man + 6 Horses = Flying Frenchman
Oxford Muse. “A foundation to stimulate courage and invention in personal, professional and cultural life”. Browse the self-potraits, participate in projects, go universal, or just learn what the Muse is about.
Have some Phun (an immersive and fun tool to learn physics.)
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)
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