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The New Internet Eclectic
By | March 1, 2009
Despite the allure of getting outside once more, if only a few times on those few days when the weather teases us with spring, there are sure to be many days where something inside is in the offing. Here, then, are some distractions worth a look…
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This month…
Blog Roll: Rules for an American fantasy road trip; A daily diary of Depression-era life; The hardest job in football; Frederic Krueger and the Eflite Blade mCX
Cooking: Color of Tea; 50 best food blogs; Steak a la Talouse; What’s Cooking; Chocolate Timeline; Super Spice; White House Chef Wars; Last Kerfuffle with Tariff…
Design: IDEO’s David Kelley Takes On His Biggest Challenge; 10 Commandments on Design; Smithsonian 2.0; Magenta Ain’t A Colour; How We Kill Geniuses; Snooty Designers…
History: Finding the lost city of Z; Dicken’s Refuge for Fallen Women; The Real Robinson Carusoe; The Red Prince Hapsburg; Historic ship wreck; Mono histories; Notgeld…
Language Arts: Phonetics; Classic Poetry Aloud; Speaking in tongues; The impotence of of Proofreading; Escaping The Caboose; Elements of a good story; From literature to the lab…
Music: Theolonius Monk’s Advice; Gravity; Why Music; FreeSound; Her Morning Elegance; Anna; Tea For Two…
Pics: Egypt; Visual Acoustics; Photo of the Year; Lost London; Found Lives; Photography-Now; 100 Meters of Existence; Kathryn Parker Almanas; LaPrincess in Liverpool…
Science: What Invasive Species Are Trying To Tell Us; Do gravity holes harbour planetary assassins; Where feather color comes from; Is mathematics the language of the universe; Sean Carroll…
Spin Zone: Fear The Kindle; Two Horsemen; Structured Lessons For And From Economics; Conservatism Is Dead; Harness the genie of citizen engagement; On the militant trail…
Travel: World’s Weirdest Hotels; Hints To Travelers; Linen Motel Postcards
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This Month’s Web Bytes
Just added to Map Guide: Experimental Geography - Book review: “A photo of a secret CIA prison. A map designed to help visitors reach Malibu’s notoriously inaccessible public beaches. Guidebooks to factories, prisons, and power plants in upstate New York. These are some of the more than one hundred projects represented in Experimental Geography, a groundbreaking collection of visual research and mapmaking from the past ten years.”
Also added to the Map Guide: Historic Cities - Maps and documents of the past, present and future of historic cities.
Just added to the Education Guide: AcademicEarth - Thousands of video lectures from the world of academia.
Also added to the Education Guide: Self Made Scholar - Self education resource with many links to online courses.
An uber collection of 100 things you should have already experienced on the internet unless your a loser or old or something.
Too Cute: ZooBorns
Cute film about communication: Signs
On a roll, here’s Eames on A Communication Primer
Mindfuck Movies (with lots of trailers).
Since I’ve never owned one, I never knew that rats have staring contests.
The heroes of British Comics (Paul Gravett).
Seed has short conversations at Seed Salon; Michael Shanks + Lynn Hershman Leeson.
Surchur is a new search what’s hot site using Yahoo Pipes
Red Bull Racing has put together a 2 minute video explaining F1 Racing Rule Changes that’s worth a look (Wired).
Understanding Comics (TED Talks).
Andrew Stanton Interview (WALL-E/Finding Nemo)
Hot Wheels (…all about building bigger ferris wheels at the Smart Set) Here’s Germany’s Great Berlin Wheel.
Visit Emmet Labs and then tell stories about how connected people are.
DiRT (Digital Research Tools) is a wiki for social scientists.
Glass topped pool table (scroll down to view video)
Joe Ades, NYC potato peeler man, RIP; hawking his wares, but never fear, you can find one on Amazon.
What are the new liberal arts? Snarkmarket is looking for 2.0 ideas to include in a new ebook.
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
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