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The New Internet Eclectic
By | July 1, 2009
If you can find the time…
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This month…
Blog Roll: Mindsight; Secrecy is Key; Lingering; Three Woofs and a Woo; Geoggrey Chaucer Hath A Blog
Cooking: Stop Oversaucing Your Pasta; Top 10 Top 10 Food Lists; On Extravagance; The Stag Cookbook; Ruhlman’s BLT From Scratch Summer Challenge; Gastrosexual…
Design: Form Doesn’t Follow Function; Colourshift; Flip Flop Fly Ball; The Served; Bau Bike; The Animation Michelangelo; Coast Modern…
History: The Man Who Named The Clouds; Civil War Preservation Trust; ‘89; Human History Written In Stone And Blood…
Language Arts: Common Solocisms; Java is a four letter word; Raw Shark Texts; The Genius of George Orwell; The Women of McSweeney’s; Hunting the elusive first ‘Ms.’…
Music: A crescendo in the West Bank; Storm Comin’; Supper’s Ready; The Musical Cliche; Leonard Cohen; Bobby McFerrin; Giant Steps; Baby I’m A Fool…
Pics: Picture of the Year Winners; Three Frames; No Lifeguard On Duty; Billion Pixel Pictures; Fallen Princess; Ice; Inside Roy Lichtenstein’s Studio…
Science: Biomimicry; The Genius of Charles Darwin; Sungazer; Meditation On Demand; Microscopy; Losing Sight of the Milky Way; A Fossil Celebrity; Liquid Sand…
Spin Zone: Clay Shirky; Teach Your Kids To Argue…
Travel: Atlas Obscura; High Line; Geek Atlas; 11 Summer Vacations For The Inner Geek; Soul Place.
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This Month’s Web Bytes
Just added to the Arts Guide: Faberge Eggs - Mieks site details the eggs that Karl Gustavovich Faberge made for Tsars Alexander III and Nicholas II between 1885-1917.
Also added to the Arts Guide: Tain - The Tain Lithographs for Thomas Kinsella’s inspired version of The Táin Bó Cuailnge, the dramatic record of Ireland’s proto-historic past.
Just added to the Map Guide: DigMap - Metadata from European national libraries, to provide discovery and access to contents provided by those libraries.” The site is searchable, and browsable by date, place, and individual collection.
Speaking of maps, check out The Graveyard of the Atlantic. Only sealers, shipwrecked sailors and salvagers made their homes on Sable Island, impermanent ones at best. The salvagers must have had some pretty good times – over the last few centuries, more than 350 vessels were shipwrecked on what became known as the “Graveyard of the Atlantic”.
On a roll, Most complete Earth map published (download here).
More recently, Quest (documentary of Johnny Quest TV series from the 1960’s)
More recently, 5 videos of man’s impact on earth over the last 10 years.
Have you watched Home?
While home, fill the iceorb carefully, earthlings.
Following. Also by Seitz: The Explanation. Bonus, the opening sequence of Birth.
Microsoft’s Natal (Intro video). Motion controller predictions.
Did I say that? Mickey Rourke.
British Film Institute on YouTube
Robotics on steroids (Festo’s YouTube Channel)
Surprise Wedding Reception (courtesy of ImprovEverywhere).
Have I Got News For You (uncut).
Some ten years after the initial publication, the acronym APGAR was coined in the US as a mnemonic learning aid: Appearance (skin color), Pulse (heart rate), Grimace (reflex irritability), Activity (muscle tone), and Respiration. The test, however, is named for Dr. Apgar, making Apgar an eponymous backronym. How childbirth went industrial.
How to: keep a cat off the kitchen counter.
You now may need the Random YouTube Insult Generator
Five Dream Discoveries (BBC)
136 Amazing Approaches to Architecture (WebUrbanist)
Just added to the Garden Guide: 10 Essential Herbs (Reader’s Digest)/also added: Square Foot Gardening - Planning small but intensively planted gardens; how to build one; purchase raised bed corners and save time; forum; trench composting is smart.
Just added to the Education Guide; Encyclopedia of Earth - A free, fully searchable collection of articles written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts who collaborate and review each other’s work.
Also added to the Education Guide: Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - Series of video lecturesat MIT.
Speaking of education, Ellen DeGeneres’ commencement speech (full video including her dancing in the aisles)
Test My Brain (Harvard Vision Lab online tests)
Wolfram Alpha(Top 10 Easter Eggs)-(Introductory Video)
Introducing Google Wave. O’Reilly’s take.
2009 Editors’ Awards for Online Excellence
Can Serendipity Make You Rich?
Wait For Me (3 minute documentary)
PBS has added Life of Birds to its lineup online.
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