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The New Internet Eclectic
By | April 1, 2009
Still cold and wet much of the time, which means a little browsing time is in the offing…
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This month…
Blog Roll: Better Than Free; ImHerHusband; Lone Gunman; The Problem With Robotic Warfare; Money Talks; The Cute cat Theory Talk; Bob Cluster’s Funny Stuff.
Cooking: Gordon Ramsey; History of Breakfast in America; The Story of the American Mixologist; Tournament of Beef; Perfect Portions; Locavore 1.0; Glorious Food Myths…
Design: The Essence Of Line; 8 Everyday Objects That Need Fixing; After The Crisis; Kinetica Art Fair; Evolution of Art & Design 1845-1980; How Designers Fail; Crisalides…
History: Virtual Laboratory; Voices Froom The 1930’s; The World’s Longest Undefended Border; Whose Father Was He?; Historical Comics; Memorable Dates In The Hhistory of WWW…
Language Arts: Family Words; Alison Brechtel’s Book Review; Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue; Nick Hornby’s Reading Life; The “Raiders” Story Conference; Raymond Chandler’s 50 Years Dead…
Music: Stephen Sondheim; Leonard Bernstein; Low Light Mixes; Nano Song; Fuzz 01; The Alchemists of Sound; Rockin The DNA; Classic Arcade Sounds…
Pics: America; Underwater Photography; Mechanical Icon; Photographic Dictionary; Extravagant Crowd; Julius Shulman; Otzi The Iceman; Antarctic Fox…
Science: Holy Land; Microscope Imaging Station; TVN; Hacking The Sky; The Civil Heretic; Cosmos; Building the 21st-Century Mind; Quantum Friction…
Spin Zone: How The Crash Will Reshape America; Towards Theocracy; Legalize Drugs To Stop The Violence
Travel: All Baedeker; The Hippie Trail
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This Month’s Web Bytes
Just added to the Map Guide:Holy Land Maps - Holy land maps and ancient maps of Jerusalem; 1492 Perspective of Jerusalem, 1482 Ptomely of the Middle East, 1751 Map of Egypt, Arabia & Middle East.
Just added to the Garden Guide: 1943 ABC of Victory Gardens - A great resource for learning how to start one of your own.
Demoing the 6th Sense (TED)
Centraal Station Antwerpen gaat uit zijn dak! (Try not to smile…)
Inside all of us is a Wild Thing (trailer).
Friction welding (pictures, video).
Check out the invasion of the hummingbirds. Or, for that matter, painted ladies.
Woomba (Saturday Night Live)
5 Second Films (Wasting your time, but not very much.)
Interactive Narratives is designed to capture the best of online visual storytelling as practiced by online and print journalists.
If you don’t like your commute, watch Two Angry Camels
Is This The Real Shakespeare? The New Republic’s slideshow.
Harpers asks: Um, uh, what? Which is to say: what?!
Brooklyn Revealed Spite Houses (the architectural equivalent of the middle finger).
Just the opposite, kinda, is 100 Great Spaces (AD)
Then, check out the Stockholm Public Library (by architect Gunner Asplund)
European Green Belt…The ‘Iron Curtain’ divided Eastern and Western Europe for almost 40 years cutting off contacts between people on both sides. Nature seized the deserted border areas. Today a string of beautiful habitats with rare plants and animals connects European landscapes and forms a living monument of European history.
Best of Craigslist - No Sex Tonight
On a roll, You Suck At Craigslist
Web Tech Guy And Angry Staff Person (Smithsonian2.0).
Not related exactly, but SFX How To Steal $100 Million In Loose Diamonds
The hummingbird whisperer
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.
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