The Internet Eclectic

The New Internet Eclectic

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:01:22 +0000

With spring just around the corner (one hopes), here’s some diversions while the snow mounds resist the coming rains.

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This month…

Blog Roll: Pretend Office; Sticky Moments; Pecking Order; Glory At Sea

Cooking: An Edible History of Humanity; Kitchen Garden Planner; H.R. Giger Cake; Photoshop Cookies

Design: Luna Commons; Dazzle Camouflage; An Iconography of Contagion; Under The Milky Way; Redesigning Valentine’s Day; Picture Book Report…

History: Internet Archeology

Language Arts: How I Met My Wife; How To Order A Beer; The Land of Underwater Birds; DFW Audio Project; Simply Putting On Weight…

Music: Pops - Culture Changing Genius; This Must Be It; I Put A Spell On You; iamamiwhoami; Too Late To Appologize; Come Up To The House

Pics: Graphing Math’s Function In Photography; NYPD Aerial Photos of 9/11; A Photographic History of the Philippine-American War; World Press 2000

Science: Memes & Temes; Internet Ideology War; Nature’s Hot Green Quantum Computers Revealed; The Ethical Dog; Maths and Hallucinations…

Spin Zone: How To Get Our Democracy Back; Oxfordgirl vs. Ahmadmejad; Fools’ Gold; Planet War

Travel: Via Francigena; Photo Diary; Hotel Munch; Small Town Gems.

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This Month’s Web Bytes

Hotdocs Online Docs

nsfw Chatroulette (article in NYM)

Ten Word Wiki (Index)

Bill Gates: Innovating To Zero (TED)

Stephen Fry on the Late Late Show (Craig Ferguson; Part 2, 3, 4, 5)

Google Buzz

A Brief History Of Pretty Much Everything

Bucks Credit Union

Lennart Green + Close Up Card Magic (TEDTalks).

Sexual Politics of Dancing (Spiegel)

This is where we live.

How to be a man part 4: Tape Measure Skills

CGI ++: The Third & The Seventh

100 Things We Didn’t Know Last Year (BBC)

What Type Are You?

Michael Moschen performs The Triangle

The trailer for the film Room And A Half (in Russian) has some amazing animation.

The New Internet Eclectic

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:48:16 +0000

A short month in a long winter…

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This month…

Blog Roll: The Big Fat Undertaking; The Secret History of Typography in the OED.

Cooking: America: Too Stupid To Cook; Cook Almost Anything; Smoked Haddock Chowder; Quel Cassoulet; Pizza Turnaround…

Design: Fontana Modern Masters; Letterheady; Dennis Zilbert Art Blog; Demons And Devotions

History: The Bunny Revolution; What Objects Say About Our Times

Language Arts: Google Magazines; The World’s Hardest Language; Do’s And Don’ts of Online Publicity; Only Reflect; Visions and Revisions…

Music: Symphony of Science; On Gospel, Abba and The Death of The Record; Won’t Get Fooled Again; Opera en el Mercado; ‘81

Pics: Pingwire; Dublin At Work In NYC; Best Photos of 2009; Dogs of Moscow

Science: Images From The History of Science; Science of Success; 50 Best Science Blog Posts; Quantum Theory vs. 40-Tonne Truck; Foamy Invention

Spin Zone: How America Can Rise Again; How Is The Internet Changing The Way You Think; Prudence, You No Longer Rule My Day; How Corporate Branding Has Taken Over America…

Travel: Hotel Munch; Small Town Gems.

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This Month’s Web Bytes

Lennart Green + Close Up Card Magic (TEDTalks).

Sexual Politics of Dancing (Spiegel)

This is where we live.

How to be a man part 4: Tape Measure Skills

CGI ++: The Third & The Seventh

100 Things We Didn’t Know Last Year (BBC)

What Type Are You?

Michael Moschen performs The Triangle

The trailer for the film Room And A Half (in Russian) has some amazing animation.

The life journey of the Russian poet Joseph Brodsky inspired this drama written and directed by Andrey Khrzhanovsky. Brodsky, a Nobel laureate who was born in 1940, fled the Soviet Union in 1972, and died in 1996, once told a reporter that if he were to return to the land of his birth, he’d do so without identifying himself, and in Poltory komnaty ili sentimentalnoe puteshestvie na rodinu (aka A Room and a Half, or a Sentimental Journey to the Homeland), Khrzhanovsky imagines what the voyage would be like, and what he thinks the poet’s reaction would be. Touring his old neighborhood, the older Brodsky (Grigoriy Dityatkovskiy) recalls his youth, when he (Artem Smola) lived with his loving father (Sergei Yursky) and mother (Alisa Freindlich) in a small but comfortable apartment in Leningrad following the end of World War II, and the idyll of life with his family colors his view of the world around him. As Brodsky becomes a young man and goes off to college, he learns about art and language, and a new world is opened to him; however, he also becomes aware of the oppressive nature of the Soviet regime, and he begins speaking out in favor of greater freedoms, marking the first steps on his road to exile.

Book Book

2009 Third Coast Broadcast Awards

What Matters Now

Vimeo’s 25 Favorite Videos (Too Much Candy)

Malk

I Will Remember To Take My Medication (Bart’s Blackboard)

Speaking of beards, Brian Blessed as Henry VIII

More beards, with James Lipton urging texters to Give It A Ponder

Finally, the Allen Ginsberg Figurine

Robin Hood

Granny O Grimm (check out the film/click on TV)

Fifty People One Question

I Are Cute Kitten

Simon’s Cat “Snow Business”

Top 10 Trick Football Plays

David Rock’s Google Talk Your Brain At Work

Edifice Wrecks

The New Internet Eclectic

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:24:00 +0000

Baby, It’s Cold Outside so here’s something to do while looking out the window…

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This month…

Blog Roll: Retro Renovation; Special Delivery; The Year In Ideas; Architects Talk

Cooking: Science Cookies; Eight Ways In-Vitro Meat Will Change Our Lives; Gumbo: The Mysterious History; No Beads, No Babes, No Bourbon Street…

Design: Neutra Face; Mag +

History: Christmas Food Timeline; A Lost European Culture; Dissertations On His Dudeness; Bonus!; History of the World In 100 Objects…

Language Arts: Omm Writer; Lehrer’s Rules; DFW’s Grammar Challenge; Ink Mesh; I Am Locking The Wikipedia Article On Our Sex Life; Twitterature…

Music: The Gift; Baby It’s Cold Outside; I’ll Be Gone; Vectortronic; Forgetting; I’m Yours; 20 Pieces of Music That Changed The World

Pics: George Steinmetz; Top 10 Astronomy Pictures; Stellar Nursery; The Decade In News Photography; Stuck In Customs; Mukha…

Science: Decades of Future Science; Mars In Retrograde; View The Milky Way; Kindness Beyond Kinky; The Known Universe; The Year In Science…

Spin Zone: Iranian Men In Hijab; Leaving The Right; A Vaguely Passive-Aggressive Post On Commenters; The Great Satan Myth; Climategate…

Travel: Hotel Munch; Small Town Gems.

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This Month’s Web Bytes

2009 Third Coast Broadcast Awards

What Matters Now

Vimeo’s 25 Favorite Videos (Too Much Candy)

Malk

I Will Remember To Take My Medication (Bart’s Blackboard)

Speaking of beards, Brian Blessed as Henry VIII

More beards, with James Lipton urging texters to Give It A Ponder

Finally, the Allen Ginsberg Figurine

Robin Hood

Granny O Grimm (check out the film/click on TV)

Fifty People One Question

I Are Cute Kitten

Simon’s Cat “Snow Business”

Top 10 Trick Football Plays

David Rock’s Google Talk Your Brain At Work

Edifice Wrecks

Just added to the Map Guide: Perry-Castaneda Library - PCL map collection from University of Texas; links to online map resources; historical maps.

Speaking of which, try the map quiz

Interactive Unemployment Map 1/07-9/09

50 Most Interesting Wikipedia Articles

Bio Concrete

Surprised Kitty

Google Image Swirl

Andrew Zuckerman’s Bird Book (pics, sounds, movies)

Maggwire (in beta)

Best of the 2000’s TV Commercials (Non Super Bowl)

How To Make A Baby (SFW)

Out Of Body Experience

By My Side

Sixty Hours of Terror (VirginiaQuarterlyReview)

A Few Days In Florida

Not to overdo it, but Cat Town

The New Internet Eclectic

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:59:07 +0000

The forecast is for some quality time right here.

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This month…

Blog Roll: Clients From Hell; It Made My Day; Accidental Geographies; The Nine Nations of China; Lists; confessions of a converted Lecturer…

Cooking: Thomas Keller’s Ad Hoc At Home Cookbook Recipes; Feast; RecipeLabs; Lunch With M; 12 Minutes of David Chang; Soda Pop Guy; Myhrvold’s High Tech Eye Toward Professional Kitchens; Playing with Fire…

Design: Objectified; Vintage Ad Posters From Russia; I Thought I Was The Only One; Picasso’s Guernica

History: 101 Historical Moments You Can Relive On YouTube; Visualizing Empires Decline; The School of Athens; The History of the Internet In A Nutshell…

Language Arts: Seven Scripts You Gotta Read; The Worst Swear Word; Can I Put You On Hold?; The Auturm Leaves of Red And Gold; Goodnight Keith Moon…

Music: visible Ink; Perfect Lives; US; How To Play Piano Like Philip Glass; Jazz Now; 10 Magnificantly Modern Musical Instruments; Mixed Reviews…

Pics: Blue Sun; Mars; I Should Say It Is The Most Complicated Picture I’ve Ever Made; Many; After The Wall; Plant Sex; Ansal Adams on Color; Take A Dream For A Walk…

Science: Making The Modern World; A virus walks into a bar…; Who knew a drop of water bounced?; Clever Fools; CT Scan Art; Seeing The World In Black And White; The Philosophy of Science…

Spin Zone: The War For The Web; Renouncing Islamism; 36 Arguments For The Existence of God; Writing On His Behalf…

Travel: Hotel Munch; Small Town Gems.

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This Month’s Web Bytes

Just added to the Map Guide: Perry-Castaneda Library - PCL map collection from University of Texas; links to online map resources; historical maps.

Speaking of which, try the map quiz

Interactive Unemployment Map 1/07-9/09

50 Most Interesting Wikipedia Articles

Bio Concrete

Surprised Kitty

Google Image Swirl

Andrew Zuckerman’s Bird Book (pics, sounds, movies)

Maggwire (in beta)

Best of the 2000’s TV Commercials (Non Super Bowl)

How To Make A Baby (SFW)

Out Of Body Experience

By My Side

Sixty Hours of Terror (VirginiaQuarterlyReview)

A Few Days In Florida

Not to overdo it, but Cat Town

Atari Video Game Arcade

The Rings of Earth

Best Books About Etiquette

Tricked On Holloween

Professor Video (Harvard)

Ocoee River Gorge

An Anthropological Introduction To YouTube (55:34)

Just added to the Arts Guide: Van Gogh Letters - Letters by the artist; also a weblog.

Fake AP Stylebook: Always capitalize ‘Bible.’ You don’t want to get letters from those people. (or Do not use “nonprofit” as an adjective. Use “broke.”)

Guardian Reviews of the Decade.

Lost Generation (YT).

The Stages of Life

Single Serving Sites

Then They Put Me On A Truck

I love XKCD

Rabbit Tarot

Walk On The Wild Side (BBC)

How Do You Count Your Cash?

Eagle Filmed Hunting Reindeer (BBC)

The Model of the New Media Model

The New Internet Eclectic

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:52:17 +0000

With frost nipping at everything, here’s something to wrap yourself into…

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This month…

Blog Roll: Speechification; Life Lessons From An Ad Man; Information As Stimulus; Chicken a la Carte; Confessions of a Middlebrow Professor; Forty Years of Civilization.

Cooking:How To Eat A Chicken Wing; Vegetarianism; Undercover Vegetables - Parsnips; The Best Way To Cook A Steak; WAIT!; Why fat lubricates your appetite; Catching Fire…

Design: Design USA; Peter Paul Rebens - Graphic Designer; Lucian Freud

History: Norman Centuries; Gilder Lehman Institute; The Sixties Project; Dubai; A People’s History of the Internet; A Graphic History of Newspaper Circulation…

Language Arts: 100 Days; Snowflake Method; Digital Storytelling; The The Impotence of Proofreading; Little Miss Sunshine; From A Notebook That Never Was; It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers…

Music: Google Music; Pandora; Eigenharp; Wait It Out; Rejoice In The Lamb; Use Somebody; We Are All Connected

Pics: On Avedon; Infernal Landscapes, Small Wonders; Hunting Wolf; Polaroid SX 70 Ad; arctiness; Iconic Photos Blog

Science: Cell Size;Scale; Interactive Periodic Table; Richard Dawkins “Strident? Do They Mean Me?’; 7 Questions That Keep Physicists Up At Night

Spin Zone: Volker A Tipping Point; Liquor Before Beer; FDR’s Forgotten Freedoms; Why Yankee Stadium Sucks; Why Minds Are Not Like Computers; ‘News’ Forbidden City; How To Save Media…

Travel: Hotel Munch; Small Town Gems.

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This Month’s Web Bytes

Just added to the Arts Guide: Van Gogh Letters - Letters by the artist; also a weblog.

Fake AP Stylebook: Always capitalize ‘Bible.’ You don’t want to get letters from those people. (or Do not use “nonprofit” as an adjective. Use “broke.”)

Guardian Reviews of the Decade.

Lost Generation (YT).

The Stages of Life

Single Serving Sites

Then They Put Me On A Truck

I love XKCD

Rabbit Tarot

Walk On The Wild Side (BBC)

How Do You Count Your Cash?

Eagle Filmed Hunting Reindeer (BBC)

The Model of the New Media Model

The New Internet Eclectic

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:29:29 +0000

A day late, but then Spring forward leads to Fall(ing) back…

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This month…

Blog Roll: Maria Kallman on Benjamin Franklin; The Gen M Manifesto; The Longest Way Home; Containing A Capital Letter Or Two…

Cooking: Debbie Does Salad; Snickerdoodles; Catching And Cooking Crawfish.

Design: WWF 9/11 Ad; Glass Microbiology; A Typeface For The Underground; A RAW History; PIG 05049; Find Pollock’s Name

History: Holy Springs And Water Cults; Life Reeked With Joy; All Things Considered; America The Beautiful (America The Ugly).

Language Arts: Max At Sea; Far From The Madding Crowd; Book ‘Em; Dudes! Did You See The Library They Got There?; New York Review Of Ideas.

Music: Single Ladies; Benjamin Zander; Birds On The Wire; Dear Lily Allen.

Pics: Tree Portraits; Green Over Garbage; Beautiful B/W Photography; An Outer View Of The Inner World; True Love; Birth of a Hummingbird.

Science: Columbia Hills Flyover 2.0; Losing Teeth, But Keeping Genes; Where Did All The Flowers Come From?; Choose Your Afterlife; Brainstorming Babies.

Spin Zone: How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?; Copyright Law Threatening; What Have We Done To Democracy?; Eviscerating Old Media Pomposity; A Tale of Two Countries…

Travel: Hotel Munch; Small Town Gems.

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This Month’s Web Bytes

Just added to the Garden Guide: Sibley Guide - Now the well known Sibley Guide to Birds is available online.

Just added to Education Guide: UC Berkely School of Information

Apple’s Next Revolution

GivesMeHope

What The Internet Knows About You. Web Browser History Detection. Try Firefox’s BetterPrivacy.

News21 (Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism)

Scuba diving on a newly flooded meadow

Mancave

Visual Effects: 100 Years of Inspiration

The Hierarchy of Digital Distractions

J’attendrai le suivant

Sorcerer

Cheese or Font?

Russian tame foxes (YT/Nova) holds clue to domestication of dogs.

Just added to the Map Guide: U.S. Counties - Newberry Library now has an online reference for historical county boundaries (and how they have changed over time)

When Grandma Goes To Court

Top Innovation Blogs

The Problem With PowerPoint (BBC)

Happy Clouds

Ohio is a Piano

How Could This Happen To Annie Liebovitz? (VanityFair)

Built-in Curiosity: How To Mind A Gap (OpenForum)

Personas

Google Listen

The New Internet Eclectic

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:45:35 +0000

The end of the summer that wasn’t (warm), back to school, and tidbits from the ether you may find of note…

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This month…

Blog Roll: Maria Kallman on Benjamin Franklin; The Gen M Manifesto; The Longest Way Home; Containing A Capital Letter Or Two…

Cooking: Eat Well Guide; RIP Julie Lukins; Cheese And Burger Society; Attempting Beef Fourguignon; 100 Easiest, Fastest Recipes Ever; Medievil Gastronomy; Eggs Benedict…

Design: Quotes On Design; How Yellow Made A Millionaire; Gems From The Design-Hero Archives; AmassBlog…

History: Food Timeline; The Inheritance of Rome; Wildeer Women; A Sense of History; History of the Times New Roman Typeface…

Language Arts: A Flapper’s Dictionary;I’m OK - the bull is dead; The Hohn Hughes Canon; Macroscope; The Trumpet of the Swan; Emigre # 70; Dinner At El Bulli; Julia Child and the Ethical Appeal…

Music: Sad Story; Eggs And Sausage; Straight Out Of Compton; Last Dance With Mary Jane…

Pics: Photojournalist Emilio Morenatti; What’s her ame and address?; Car Junk…

Science: Galaxy Zoo; Hell Yeah, Hubble; First Comes Global Warming, Then An Evolutionary Explosion; A pixel, from earth to the moon, the infinite and beyond; Games of Chance; In Person, The Pursuit of Happiness…

Spin Zone: Clark Hoyt - Go Soak Your Head; Copyright’s Creative Disincentive; Debt - The First 5000 Years; Boycotting The Boycotters; In America, Crazy Is A Pre-Existing Condition…

Travel: American Castles; 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: U.S. Counties - Newberry Library now has an online reference for historical county boundaries (and how they have changed over time)

When Grandma Goes To Court

Top Innovation Blogs

The Problem With PowerPoint (BBC)

Happy Clouds

Ohio is a Piano

How Could This Happen To Annie Liebovitz? (VanityFair)

Built-in Curiosity: How To Mind A Gap (OpenForum)

Personas

Google Listen

Computer animation (inner workings) of the Antikythera

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.

Dream World News

The New Internet Eclectic

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 13:23:32 +0000

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.

Dream World News

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).

400 Years Ago In Manhattan

More recently, Quest (documentary of Johnny Quest TV series from the 1960’s)

RIP Pretty Boy

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).

The New Internet Eclectic

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:02:38 +0000

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.

On a roll, Most complete Earth map published (download here).

400 Years Ago In Manhattan

More recently, Quest (documentary of Johnny Quest TV series from the 1960’s)

RIP Pretty Boy

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)

My Milk Toof

How To Be Happy In Business

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?

Earth Calendar

Wait For Me (3 minute documentary)

Evolution of Dance Party

Hollywood Bloopers: 1936-1947

PBS has added Life of Birds to its lineup online.

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:34:35 +0000

RIP my dear friend Tim…

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This month…

Blog Roll: Ginger Cat Tales; Tuscon Whole Milk; From Moore’s Law to Barrett’s Rules; God Talk; 1001 Rules For My Unborn Son; Crabby Old Man; The Story of Stuff…

Cooking: Recipe Bridge; Ad Hoc At Home; A Chili Sauce to Crow About; Sandwiches in America; The Fruit Hunters; David Chang; Towards A Grand Unification Of Sutlery…

Design: Human Types; Frank Soltesz; Dear American Airlines; Redesign; Blanka; Ten Things I Have Learned; Hypercritical; On Caricature; The Organ Player…

History: Iconagraphy; Memore Palace; Jazz in the schools; Spinning Caesar’s Murder; Greetings From Poland; A Capital Fellow; The Origins of House Cats…

Language Arts: Boring Within ofr Simply Boring; Hard Case Crime; The Dangerous World of Butterflies; Advertising For Love; Like Boiling A Frog; McSweeney dispatch…

Music: Top 100 Film Scores; Peter And The Wolf; The Nest Mosart; In Bb 2.0; Marc Ribot; Kathleen Supove Slice/Dice…

Pics: Lens; Line of Beauty and Grace; The Kings of Africa; Phootos That Changed The World; Days With My Father; The Americans; Sight Unseen…

Science: Earth Science World; Science, Society and The Merchants of Light; Walter Isaacson on Albert Einstein; LittleBits; The rise and fall of a physics fraudster; Tips From A Savant…

Spin Zone: Future of Journalism; Stop Funding My Failing State; Many Hong Kongs; One World Under God; Einstein and Faith; The End of American Capitalism…

Travel: Confessions of a Introverted Traveler; The Art of Travel; Paris Walks; Drives of a Lifetime.

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This Month’s Web Bytes