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The New Internet Eclectic
By | December 1, 2008
If you can find the time in your hectic schedule this holiday season, there’s much worth looking at from last month’s web browsing…
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This month…
Blog Roll: Charlie Brooker’s Screenswipe
Cooking: Alphabet for Gourmets; Open Sesame; Recipes of Famous Americans; A Short History of the Bagel; A Seafood Snob Ponders The Future of Fish; Hail Caesar; Ensuring the future of food…
Design: Winnie The Pooh; Art & Architecture; Barrels of Art; The Face of Leonardo da Vinci; FLOW; Box to play; safety pictorials; The Man Behind The Faces; Alebrijes…
History: Historic Pittsburgh; The Uses of Adversity; Five Centuries of Board Games; The Ideal Colonist; Feel The Noise; The Evolution of Pabst Blue Ribbon Advertising…
Language Arts: A-Z of English Words with Surprising Origins; That Which or What; Sine Wave Speech; Jim Dale; Brenin; Frank Sinatra Has A Cold; Bruno Schultz; Ezra Klein…
Music: Playing For Change; Mozart’s Symphony No. 40; Gnarls Barkley; Jamie Foxx; The Tone Generation; Dream Baby Dream; Alice In Wonderland; Afro Blue…
Pics: Robert Frank’s The Americans; Life Magazine photo archive; WWI color archive; International Festival of Photojournalism; Hiroshima; Demarco Digital Archive…
Science: Top 10 Amazing Biology Videos; Journal of Visualized Experiments; Nukes In Space; Golf Swing Secrets; The Serpent Project; Giant Roaming Protist; Why Is A Raven Like A Writing Desk…
Shopping Robert Talbots Wooden Guns Zucchetti Z94XL Shower Head; But is it Art; Windowshop; 20×200; and several 2008 shopping guides…
Spin Zone: Policy Archive; Let Us Be Thankful; Stop The Remake; George Soros; Secrets of Talk Radio; The End of Wall Street; Paul Krugman; The Economist…
Travel: The Hoh; 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
At Change.gov you can share your vision. The GOP responds.
Indefence: thousands of Icelanders send British PM Gordon Brown postcards assuring him they are not terrorists.
Ricky Gervais on Humpty Dumpty
Playing ping pong with nunchucks.
Matchstick fly-powered airplane
Look, a meteor! Fire in the sky. Don’t get too close.
Where did all the acorns go? What is a mast year? A dry winter ahead?
The world’s tallest bridge is nearing completion…
The Man At The Door (WashingtonPost).
Lots of Kudos to Father and Daughter (2000). Bonus: The Monk & The Fish.
Kvetch! (bitch, bitch, bitch)
The Vendee Globe is a competition of mind-boggling endurance, where sailors are alone for three months and cannot get any outside help, nor set foot on land for the entire duration. Guide. Virtual Vendee Globe.
Capucine’s “Once Upon A Time…” (very cute French girl’s fairy tale includes subtitles).
The New Millenium Paper Airplane Contest
Pillowdrome: 1. Players take their positions on opposite sides of the circular course. 2. Each player balances a pillow on their head. For the duration of the game they may not again touch the pillow with their hands. 3. Play begins as soon as one player begins walking (“Sumo-style”). 4. Players move clockwise around the course.
Or, would you rather visit the Airbus A380 Cockpit?
YouTube Videos Andy Baio Linked To (of WAXY.org)
Must Watch: The Black Hole.
Letter of the Year (MikeRiversdale).
Michael Caine on acting in film (in 6 parts).
Archive of American Television Interviews…Alan Alda, Milton Berle, Julia Child…and on and on.
Listropolis (All Your Lists Are Belong To Us).
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
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