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By | November 1, 2008
What with the run up to the election, planting beds to prepare for winter and some last minute house and car painting, there was still some time to find a lot of interest in October.
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This month…
Blog Roll: Words In English; Beyond The Reach of God; Ghlaghghee; The Nerd Handbook; Lilman House; Marina Hyde and Lily Allen…
Cooking: A Day at elBulli; Table Matters; picks from The French Laundry; BBQ Turkey; the hardest dinner reservation in America; TCHO Chocolate; Bittman…
Design: Infographic News; Hilda Magazine; Interactive Design Is Cool; Ilian Rchov; The Man Behind the MLB Logo; Rubitone; Adrian J=hnson; Typographic Fairy Tale; The Wall That Lou Dorfman Built…
History: The history of toilet paper; The invention of the fifties; One Hard Scrabble Sumbitch; The Story of Benjamin Darling; Smugglers Britian; The Great Epizootic of 1872; Preserving The Past…
Language Arts: Think Again; Quote Interesting; best sports journalism ever; Freedom’s Curse; 12 Virtues of Rationality; Don’t Trust Anyone Over 30; Why I blog…
Music: Ukulele Orchestra Plays Shaft; My Dear Country; jamming with the Police; Searching for Robert Johnson; biotech rap; Kwaito; The Rest Is Noise; If You Open Your Mind Too Much…
Pics: US Geologic Survey Photography Library; Verve; Refinery Flocks; William Claxton RIP; Literature Without Words; People Sleeping; Crystal Palace…
Science: Brief Digression On Matters of Lost Time; The Fastest Flights of Nature; Brave New Worlds; Recurring Science Misconceptions in Grade 6 Textbooks; The Creative Personality…
Spin Zone: Blahhuughhggaaah; Reversal of Fortune; Chalie Rose roundtable; 1932, 1968, 1980…2008; Pick the lesser of two evils…
Travel: Hiking the Appalachian Trail; the Spreuer Bridge and the Dance of Death; Socora Island; 10 Oddest Travel Guides; Indulgence and Sin; Taj Mahal; Ian Hibell, RIP
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This Month’s Web Bytes
Digital Shadow - A Mind Bending Prediction.
China’s Forbidden City rendered virtually by IBM.
Listen to the history of ideas: In Our Time (BBC)
Of all the people in the world - a short video.
Trailer for the December release of Clint Eastwood’s latest Gran Torino.
Starling in plain English. Here’s another talented Starling. What you doing? Who’s There?
Cat Drinks Milk (Nom Nom)
Flow of Time (BBC): 1, 2, 3, 4
Charlie Brooker Tapping The Wire (2,3)
More fun: Return To Sender.
CICINA’s The Big Chart- the dialectic between more stuff vs less stuff (more choice = anarchy -vs- less choice = authority).
The 10 Most Brilliant Gadgets of 2008
100 Skills Every Man Should Know (Popular Mechanics)
How an engineer folds a t-shirt (YouTube)
10 Most Confusing Traffic Signs
Nintendo partners with YouTube to create their very own YT page for their launch of the newest game.
And here’s a spot from Throntons - “Stuck”
Death and Taxes 2009 (is a representational poster of what your congressmen spend on discretionary items; full res scan here).
Track your stolen laptop with Adeona (Free/Open Source)
What does $700 Billion Buy (Newsday)
David Lynch on product placement…and on Tom Cruise.
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.