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By | July 1, 2008
School’s out, the sun is high and sand and waves and softball and golf and sailing and grass cutting and watering and weeding and corn eating and brat eating and rib eating and steak eating and….be sure to leave a little room for this month’s take on what was best in June.
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This month…
Blog Roll: One Post Wonders; NNDB Mapper
Cooking: Culinary Scorecard; Mouton Rothschild’s Artistic Labels; Picture Perfect Weight Loss; The Finger Test…
Design: Reinventing Color; Penguin Design Award; European Design Award; The History of Guerilla Marketing; Packaging Design; A Brief History of Type
History: Speculum Theologiae; Remembering the Hollywood 10; Afghanistan’s Hidden Treasures; Baby Farming
Language Arts: The Name of the Rose; The cunning Linguist; Summer Books; The Story of Edgar Sawtelle; The Book of Love; Take the Funning and Run…
Music: Alton Kelly’s psychedelic 60’s Concert Posters
Pics: Picture of the Week; Photography Channel; Silent World; Images of Earth from Planetary Spacecraft
Science: Carl Zimmer; A Ne Step in Evolution; Put a Little Science In Your Life; Dark, Perhaps Forever; How Isaac Newton Changed The World; The Inner Beauty of Cells…
Spin Zone: Hamas And The End of The Two-State Solution; The Problem Within; Preparing the Battlefield; The Islam You Don’t Hear About; The Power And The Glory
Travel: Top Tourist Destinations American’s Can’t Visit; Dispatches From Places You Didn’t Know Had Tourists; Hotel Everland
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This Month’s Web Bytes
Just added to Ideation Guide: Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Random Facts, but all true.
Ever hear of Pecha Kucha (20 slides/20 seconds each/6:40 total)? Have one in your city?
This Brave Nation - brings together some of the most passionate, intelligent and creative individuals for a short videotaped conversation.
Lifestraw named world-changing idea.
National Geographic Flashback - pics from yesteryear; Trunk Show, Turtle Riding, Cooking with Fresh Verbs, Atrists Palette, Man-Size Appetite.
J.K.Rowling’s commencement speech to Harvard focuses on the fringe benefits of failure and the importance of imagination.
UPM Forest Life (Finland) - interesting interactive site dedicated to the preservation of forests (and available in English).
In the same vain, try MOMA’s Tall Buildings - visit the 25 tallest buildings, learn who the architect was and take a virtual tour of each.
The Charles and Ray Eames stamps are now available.
The 10 Greatest Defunct Web Sites.
Exploring Google’s Hidden Features.
Then, from the Boston Globe, Stopping Google: GOOGLE MAY BE widely admired for its technical wizardry and its quick, accurate search engine, but one of the company’s most impressive accomplishments has been its ability to grow as powerful as it is while still remaining, in the minds of most Americans, fundamentally likable. The company today is a behemoth, with more than 15,000 employees and a market value as big as Coca-Cola and Boeing combined. Its search engine is the tool of first resort for expert researchers and schoolkids alike; for suspicious employers, first-daters, long-lost friends, blackmailers, reporters, and police investigators - in short, for seekers of any and all sorts of information.
Mystery of Fifth Avenue (NYT). Finally, one day last fall, more than a year after they moved in, Mr. Klinsky received a letter in the mail containing a poem that began:
We’ve taken liberties with Yeats
to lead you through a tale
that tells of most inspired fates
iin hopes to lift the veil.
The letter directed the family to a hidden panel in the front hall that contained a beautifully bound and printed book, Ms. Bensko’s opus. The book led them on a scavenger hunt through their own apartment.
In any case, the finale involved, in part, removing decorative door knockers from two hallway panels, which fit together to make a crank, which in turn opened hidden panels in a credenza in the dining room, which displayed multiple keys and keyholes, which, when the correct ones were used, yielded drawers containing acrylic letters and a table-size cloth imprinted with the beginnings of a crossword puzzle, the answers to which led to one of the rectangular panels lining the tiny den, which concealed a chamfered magnetic cube, which could be used to open the 24 remaining panels, revealing, in large type, the poem written by Mr. Klinsky.
The Boston Globe has launched a new blog aptly names The Big Picture. If you were as struck by the Saturn pic as I was, here’s more…
The Suruhawa Tribe (film by David Cunningham). Background.
Another film: AgileMobileHostile (a year with Andre Williams)
I’m Tom Freakin’ Skilling (YT)
War movies, military videos and more at realmilitary.
The Serious Leisure Perspective.
UrbanPrankster chronicles pranks from around the world.
A Living Library. Check out people instead of books.
USA Road Sign Test. Five part, 30 questions each, multiple choice test on US road, highway and traffic signs. The average for part 1 (the easiest) is only 82% and 15% of takers score less than 70%.
Invention At Play (Smithsonian).
Here’s a site with 9 amazing flash animations. I particularly like this stylish and different b+w line drawing.
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.
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