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By | January 1, 2009
All I can say is good riddance ‘08…
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This month…
Blog Roll: Triumph of Derrierism; 3.0 Accelerating Change; Techgnosis; Butterfly Hunter; The Idea of the Writer; A signiture Cadence
Cooking: InMamasKitchen, Jacques Pepin; 10 Best Foods You Aren’t Eating; The iPod of Apples; How to eat spaghetti; The Origins of General Tso; Food Timeline…
Design: How Do You Design; Artists Books Online; Design Highlights ‘08; 5 Best Data Visualization Projects of 2008; 2009 Color of the Year; Quotes on Design…
History: Battle of Verdun; London Transport Museum; Popcorn; The Legend of the Stranger In Alexandria; Great and Telling Tales of Timothy Dickinson; The Italian Underground…
Language Arts: Project Management Lingo; 2008 Buzzwords; What Obama’s 27 year old speechwriter learned from George Bush; Atlas of True Names; Am I still Here…
Music: Billy Jean; Grace Jones In Chocolate; Weather Channel Music…
Pics: The Year In Pictures; Short & Sweet Film Challenge; A homeless man on Queen Street; National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest Winners; 20 Bioscape Contest Photos…
Science: Parliamentary Office of Science & Technology; The President’s Guide to Science; Climate Revelations; The Orienting Stone; Darwin’s Living Legacy…
Spin Zone: Roger Evert on the ‘57 Studebaker Golden Hawke; Joseph Stiglitz on Capitalistic Fools; Paul Krugman’s Nobel Speech; Work Ethic 2.0 - Attention Control; Reboot the FCC…
Travel: The Lure of the Open Road; Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor
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This Month’s Web Bytes
Just added to the Map Guide:Napoleon - Yes, that Napoleon’s military maps; the maps are on a scale of 1:50,000 or better and provide details of terrain and unit deployments. Also added: Martian Maps (in pdf)
On a theme: A cartography boom offers new ways to see the world.
Museum of Moving Images and their Pinewood Dialogues.
Snow Day at the Zoo (Elephant fun at 2:30).
The Tibetan Book of the Dead 1-10
In honor of the winter solstice, here’s the Digital Snow Museum, the National Snow and Ice Data Center and Snow Crystals dot com. Or, from an historical perspective, here’s Ice: A Victorian Romance.
An archive of slowed-down “drunk” Jeff Goldblum
Micro-boredom and mobile apps.
SnagFilms has over 500 free documentaries.
The Questions We Never Answered (Slate).
40 Motivational Speeches in 2 Minutes.
You don’t have to be a Rockefeller to collect art: Herb & Dorothy.
8th Annual Year In Ideas 2008 (NYT).
The online tool inspired by the flame (Fire Meets Desire).
Ever pop the bubble wrap bubbles? Ingenious: Bubble Calendar
British Acadenmy of Film & Television Arts - online archives include The Making of Laurence of Arabia.
Google Magazine Archive: Popular Science, New York Magazine, Ebony, et al. Spellbound and Thomas Gruber have compiled a starting list of titles.
The Hellstrom Chronicle is now on YouTube.
Selfcontrolfreak (video interactivity)
Video and audio of solid rocket booster (video gets good around 1:50/adjust volume accordingly). Video from other booster. More spaceflight videos here. NASA videos here.
10 Websites With Which To Waste Your Time At Work
I found Color In Motion to be the best new site, followed by Elevator Moods.
Rex’s List of Lists 2008
Then, Wiki’s List of Common Misconceptions
XWord Info is to NYT crossword puzzles what J-Archive is to Jeopardy.
Lockheed Martin’s Multiple Kill Vehicle
6 Vignettes of scenes in the upcoming Coraline.
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).
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