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By | August 1, 2009
If you can find the time…
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This month…
Blog Roll: New York Review of Ideas; Isn’t It Outrageous.
Cooking: building a meal; How to cook like grandma; An Enigma Wrapped In Flat Bread; Fancy Fast Food; Cookbook on Twitter; The ABC of DIY KFC; Slinging Slaw…
Design: The Role of the Designer In the 21st Century; 12 Inspirational Videos; Crosshatching In The Crosshairs; 100 Years of Design Manifestos; Symbolic Gestures…
History: James Beard - The Quintessential American Epicure; 19th Century Japanese Pregnancy Dolls; Isaac Newton PI; An American Hero in Iran; Was He Quite Ordinary…
Language Arts: Word Birds; Trope Is The New Meme; Meis on Rye; The Most Anticipated Books (for the rest of) 2009…
Music: Bobby McFerrin special; The Michael Jackson cacaphony; 1989 - Bob Dylan Didn’t Have This To Sing About…
Pics: Signs of Life; Pen and Parchment - Drawing In The Middle Ages…
Science: Out of Our Minds; Vague Scientist; An Easy Way To Increase Creativity; Respect For The Fungus Overlords…
Spin Zone: Clay Shirky; Teach Your Kids To Argue…
Travel: Etiquette; 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 Map Guide: 20 Fascinating Ancient Maps - Each tells a story - of wars and triumphs, biases and myths, and ultimately document modes of thought.
Also added to the Map Guide: TrailLink - Find nearby trails for biking, walking, or running, along with detailed descriptions, interactive trail maps, geocoded photos, and more.
Sputnik observatory for the study of contemporary culture
Machu Picchu (The Story). More on YouTube.
Then, The Story of Stuff has made YouTube.
Ukrainian storytelling in sand (WWII story of those who didn’t return).
Capturing Reality: The Art Of Documentary (Trailer). Watch Errol Morris and Werner Herzog.
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).
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August 1st, 2009 at 3:03 pm
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