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By | October 2, 2008
A day late and $700 billion short (I really shouldn’t get myself started on this…) Hmm, while it’s true that I’m feeling a might poorer, there follows a wealth of great finds for your sustenance.
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This month…
Blog Roll: Fade To Narrative; Twelve Canoes; Newsless; The Federal Reserve Skateboard; The Cab Ride I’ll Never Forget
Cooking: Alinea; Squirrel Melts; Orgasm or Excellent Marinara; Cookie Madness; 3000 Eggplant Recipes…
Design: Hue Test; Causes of Color; Bass on Movie Titles; 50 Incredible Polish Film Posters; Typography For Lawyers; Visual Thinking; Noticing; Paul Rand’s Cigar Can…
History: Machiavelli’s Daring Gift; Mudlarks; History of the British Imagination; The First Founder; Visualizing Early Washington; History of Hurricane Names…
Language Arts: Chillax; Poetry Bailout Will Restore Confidence of Readers; Dark Side of the Dormitory; The Invention of Air; When Books Could Change Your Life; The Simple Art of Murder…
Music: A Critical Appraisal of Madness’s Videos; Who You Are Is What You Listen To; Noah and the Whale; Why Are Classical Music Concerts So Serious…
Pics: Photo Tampering Through History; Digital Journalist; John French; When Prague Spring Gave Way To Winter; Every Dew Drop Has Heaven In It…
Science: Weird Weird Science; Street Corner Science; Winners of Visualization Challenge; The Methane Time Bomb; Dark Flow; Brave New Worlds; Fingering What Makes Us Better…
Spin Zone: Kermalism; Right At The Edge; Presidential Crimes; Bernard-Henry Levy’s Latest Salvo; America’s Economic Myths; Adonis on Islam…
Travel: Socora Island; 10 Oddest Travel Guides; Indulgence and Sin; Taj Mahal; Ian Hibell, RIP
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This Month’s Web Bytes
Just added to Ideation Guide: Common Misconceptions of Statistics - BBC series: Surveys; Counting; Percentage; averages; causation.
Also: Visualizations - Chris Harrison Visualization projects; NYT/Stream Graph of Box Office Receipts; History of Visualization, Timeline of Timelines; Periodic Table of Visualization; Modern Approaches.
Just added to Map Guide: Album Atlas - Mapping the locations of album cover photos.
Just added to the Webits Guide: trapanswers is all about animal traps.
GetBodySmart - learn all about the skeletal, nervous, circulatory…even urinary systems.
RIP Paul Newman (Vanity Fair)
Deletionpedia - and what the Wiki has to say.
Google Chrome, in comic book form. Inside Chrome (Wired). The power user guide (Lifehacker).
Google’s official newspaper archive.
Then, here’s Google’s Project 10 to the 100th.
Wiki’s official List of Frivolous Political Parties.
How would you map out Why We Drink?
Bioshock creator Ken Levine PAX 08 talk about growing up a nerd, working in Hollywood, and ultimately finding his place in game design.
Telegraph: Futurologist predicts what’s in and what’s out over next 50 years.
Here today, walking desks (NYT) YouTube footage.
The School of Life. Monocle explains a bit more. How about a weekend away with Martin Parr? Or a holiday at Heathrow with Alain de Botton? Or a tour of the M1? Or are you just hungry for a little conversation?
Sophie Can Walk (BoingBoing)
Cute girl video (Hint: don’t give up until you get to flip flops, then you’ll start to get it…)
Watch out for the ninja cat! Uncyclopedia explains.
Anarkon. (Carl Bender’s Thesis Project)
Skateboarding Insanity (skip to 2:20).
Cambridge University’s Monstrous New Clock
Oktapodi HQ - and the making of Oktapodi. Want more Gobelins Animation Gallery goodness? Try Burning Safari. Or Pyrats, Cocotte Minute, Steam Team, Super Tibetan Racer.
Thank you for smoking (Trailer)…which gets us into title sequences, and which is the best ever, and my pick would be Six Feed Under.
Arcanalogue - Tarot In Plain Sight.
17 Minutes of deaf delight: Little Hands. The background.
Smugopedia - a collection of slightly controversial opinions about a variety of subjects. We offer you the chance to buy a fleeting sense of self-satisfaction at the small cost of alienating your friends and loved ones.
Trailer for upcoming Bond film Quantum of Solace.
Then there’s Nemo Gould, a kinetic sculptor who does robots, who morph into Little Big Man - all out of general debris.
Do I need a jacket today? Umbrella Today? Sandwich today?
Guide to geography and climate for each of the states.
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.
Topics: October 08 |
October 2nd, 2008 at 6:05 pm
There is an incredible website http://www.mrposter.com with over 1,000 vintage movie posters on display. Also jazz, theater, sports, political and travel.
Their gallery collection in Santa Fe, New Mexico numbers over 15,000 different original Polish posters.