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By | February 1, 2009
While we can not yet see the snow drifts suffering the onslaught of spring, by the end of February we surely will. In the meantime, enjoy…
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This month…
Blog Roll: Old Jews Telling Jokes; How Porsche Hacked The Financial System; In Defense of David Derby; Regarding The Personal Web; Choosing Not To Choose; Robots At War…
Cooking: Great Chefs; Table of Condiments; A Meal In Venice; Pie; Regional Pizza Styles; 10 emerging Flavor Duos; 8 Variations on Meatloaf.
Design: The Art of Golf Course Architecture; Paul Rand dot com; Book Cover Archive; Hard Format; Hey Good Looking; Oblique Strategies; A Space Journey In Time…
History: Papers of the War Department 1784-1800; The Story of India; History of the Internet; 2008 Cliopatria Awards; The Future of the American Frontier; Political Party…
Language Arts: The World’s Best Passenger Complaint Letter; By Any Other Name; Cursive, Foiled Again; The Graveyard Book; Funny Personal Ads; Save The Words; In Praise of Slowness…
Music: Betty Freeman; If I Had A Heart; Structures Sonores; Nina Simone; Sound Therapy; Notes From the Chairman; Stakker/Aphix Twins; Hard Format.
Pics: Volumetric Cinematography; Tin Eye; Seeing Eye To Eye; Ghosts of the Faithful Departed; Sky In Motion; Cloud Projections; Earth Observed; Visual Acoustics; Moore’s Law Illustrated…
Science: How To Think About Science; Soils; The Open Universe; The Invention of Air; The Pleasure of Thinking Things Out; Top 10 Accidental Inventions; The Flesh of Physics…
Spin Zone: Memo To All White House Staff; The Last Professor; The End of the Financial World As We Know It; RIP Reverend Richard John Neuhaus; Audience Atomization Overcome…
Travel: Offbeat Guides; TopEventsUSA; Travel Film Archive; 2009 Top 10 Dirtiest Hotels.
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This Month’s Web Bytes
Just added to the Webits Guide:Internet Bird Collection - Large and growing collection of films capturing the known (10000) species; from the arctic tern, the Blue Whistling-thrush, or a pair of American Avocets mating to more exotic species such as the Hoazin.
PhilPapers contains nearly 200,000 online papers on philosophy.
9 Month Old Plays With Toys is mesmerizing.
Canada’s National Film Board Screening Room is a treasure trove of yesteryear: The Sweater; The Log Driver’s Waltz; The Cat Came Back; or simply go to playlists where folks list their favorites.
BBC’s cockpit view of flight 1549 water landing.
Matt Harding, of Where The Hell Is Matt fame, comes clean.
Hochbetrieb is silent slapstick that ran during the 2003 international film circuit (aka “nuts and bolts”).
All 17 original episodes (1967) of The Prisoner can be found on AMC.
Track Stars: The Unseen Heroes of Movie Sound
The greatest thing that’s happened in football coverage? The yellow line. A detailed explanation of how its done. More about the technical details needed to be solved.
Create your own disposable webpage.
Songsmith’s video speaks for itself.
Top 50 Movie Special Effects Shots
Each December, the United States National Film Preservation Board chooses up to 25 films they deem worthy of taking special action to preserve in the Library of Congress. It’s a new year, and that means 25 more films are welcomed in the vault of the National Film Registry. Three of the 2008 picks can be viewed on the Archive as well as nearly 40 picks from years past.
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
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