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The New Internet Eclectic
By | September 1, 2008
It was inevitable, I suppose. Turns out, I lost all of the categorized links a couple days ago. All my searching, spanning a month, lost (it was there, and then next day, it wasn’t). Except for Cooking and Science, and the Web Bytes. So for September, those are new, and the rest is a repeat.
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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: Julia Child - The OSS Years; The perfect chocolate chip cookie; The greater the threat the hotter the chili; The igneous petrology of ice cream; Harve This on boiling an egg…
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: Stephen Gould; Cooking and cognition; The genius of Charles Darwin; Lost tribes of the green Sahara; Music and the Brain…
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
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.
Smithsonian discovers new bird species.
There There Square. By Jacqueline Goss.
The Portable Film Festival. Don’t be afraid of the dark, Crow Moon.
Aurora: video exploring a future user interface.
Yobler = Instructional learning.
50 States - place the states on the map where they belong.
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
The Orwell Prize/The Orwell Diaries.
Reading someone else’s mail: Sealed Envelope Hack.
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.
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