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The New Internet Eclectic
By | August 1, 2008
The sound of bats hitting balls, the feel of the sun on your face, sand between your toes, lightening bugs dancing after dusk…it must be summer. Enjoy what was best in July.
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This month…
Blog Roll: Granta-The Suit; Creative Capitalism; How It Turned Out For The Peanuts Gang; Debris; Escaping The Amish; Knockoff News
Cooking: Have Food Will Travel; Employees Only; Eric Rupert’s quest to build the perfect burger; How Sysco came to monopolize most of what you eat; Waiter Rant…
Design: You Are Beautiful; Humbug by Design; Pablo Picasso’s Bull; The Law of the Letter; The Design Disease; If You Were A Typeface; Michael Beirut on Mad Men…
History: Take Me Out To The Ballgame; The Big Picture; Chidren Of The Revolution; The Man Who Would Be King…
Language Arts: Kit Cat Club; Giles Coren’s email rant; Stet; The Kindergarchy; Days with my father; Revolutions per minute; Kick over the scenery; Infinite Jest…
Music: Historic American Sheet Music; Calling Trains; Nature of Music; Bill Evans on the creative process; The Shape of Music; 109 Instrumentals…
Pics: One World Journeys; China; Translucent Creatures; Photopainting
Science: Unleashing Solar Power; Nature of Glass; Looking For A Sign; Achilles Heel of HIV; Quantum Poetics; The End of Theory; The Worms Crawl In…
Spin Zone: Warning to Copyright Enforcers; The Dead End of Western Civilization; Welcome To The Real World; Collateral Damage; Is America Finished…
Travel: Swimming Holes; Great Outdoors; Sleeping Bear Dunes; Nathan Myhrvold visits; Travel by cargo ship; 10 backyard paradises…
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This Month’s Web Bytes
Randy Pausch is dead. Achieving Your Childhood Dreams (well worth the hour).
Watching the growth of Walmart across America.
Criminal Searches (Do you really know who people are?).
Teaching starlings to speak. Talking. Flocking.
Viral bees a la Haagen-Dazs
Who are Muslims? (Gallup)
224 buildings from 43 countries have made it on to the first ever World Architecture Festival Awards shortlist.
Incredible Machine - another Rube Goldberg contraption, this one using a lot of pyrotechnics.
10 Things You Should Know About The Internet (Neatorama)
The Internet is only 5000 days old. (TED Talk)
The Stuttering Bible Salesman.
Tarantino’s Mind (for all those students of film).
YouTube for brainiacs _ MITtechtv
For documentary lovers, try NFB beta for gems like Mindscape, The Romance of Transportation in Canada and Universe.
Or, if you prefer, you can become a filmanthropist via snagfilms.
“A breath mint would be a good idea today.”
Japanese dance is popping. I My Me Mine. Closer to home, West Coast Poppin.
101 of the World’s Best One Liners.
The Process (AgencyLifer)
Viewzi is a meta search site based on views (in beta).
A is for Aardvark (B is for Bengal Tiger…)
Medpedia - help write about health, medicine and the body.
Guiness World Record podcasts
List of unsolved problems (Wikipedia)
10 Great Moments in Internet History
A nice collection of creative error 404 pages.
The Lazy Bloggers Post Generator.
Dog Years. A short film. A second one.
The new Harley-Davidson museum in Milwaukee.
10 Light Graffiti Artists and Photographers
Electroadhesive Robots are watching!
Are you a fan of NPR? If so, Inside NPR may just be for you. Registration is simple, and in the coming months, will let you join a social networking group.
Blow Up - your Flickr just got better.
Top 100 Undiscovered Websites - 2 (PCMagazine)
Sir John Templeton’s (1912-2008, RIP) 16 Rules for Investment Success.
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.
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