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This month…

Blog Roll: Cousteau; Catalog Living

Cooking: The Kitchn; Retro Recipe Attempts; The History Chef; How to open a bottle of wine with your shoe; A Note from Bill Penzy; The Ins-n-Outs of an In-n-Out Double-Double, Animal Style.

Design: The Creativity Crisis; Fayum Mummy Portraits; Missing Missy; Unbelievable Pencil Art; Don Norman Talks Design; Typeface; Information Is Beautiful

History: How America Got It’s Name; Bierced; The Interpretive Value of Different Perspectives; Greene & Greene Virtual Archive; Hot on the Trail.

Language Arts:  I Write Like…; Best Magazine Articles Ever; Rupert Murdoch, Neel Shah and the Short Pants; Jeff Bezos Commencement Speech; Goodbye to All This: On Leaving True/Spin…

Music: Do The Right Thing; Ocean; Public Image Ltd.; Pat Metheny on Kenny G.

Pics:  Mila’s Daydreams; Ansel Adams; Still-Life Photography; The Longest Photographic Exposures In History.

Science: Planck Telescope Reveals Ancient Cosmic Light; Robins Can Literally See Magnetic Fields; Invasion; Scientopia rises from mass exodus at Scienceblogs.

Spin Zone: America Builds An Artistocracy; Crisis of Capitalism; Forget Shorter Showers; The New Science of Morality; Four Economic Benchmarks We Need Now…

Travel: 8 Perfect Summer Lake Towns; Road Scholar; America’s Lesser-Known National Parks; America’s Most Underrated National Parks; A Vision Of Britian Through Time; Via Francigena; Photo Diary; Hotel Munch; Small Town Gems.

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This Month’s Web Bytes

Just added to the Garden Guide: USA Grow Stores - Gardening resources for America.  Also added: Urban Gardens (unlimited thinking in limited spaces), and Urban Gardening Help (helpful tips and tricks for environmentally-conscious urban dwellers).

161 of the Best Videos on YouTube (Mashable)

Stephen Fry: What I Wish I’d Known At 18

Joking Computer

Broken Secrets

VW Fast Lane - The Slide

100 Years of Visual Effects (5:00 YT)

David Lipsky on the Late David Foster Wallace (NPR’s The Takeaway)

360 Tribute To Escher

20 Parrot Tricks In 2 Minutes

NPR: All Things D

Clay Shirky: How Cognitive Surplus Will Change The World (TEDTalks)

Underwater Jumping

BP Spills Coffee

Vortex Cannon

Lake Street Creamery

When Five Fell (10:00)

Unlikely Friends (wonderful Orangutan + Hound Dog bonding, but takes :30 to load)

Idlekeyboard (sound busy when not)

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This month…

Blog Roll: Cousteau; Catalog Living

Cooking: Watermelon Carving; Perfect French Fries; 101 Recipes For Grilling

Design: Missing Missy; Unbelievable Pencil Art; Don Norman Talks Design; Typeface; Information Is Beautiful

History: Ancient Chinese Secret: Yes, Masons Used Sticky Rice

Language Arts: Two Poets; I’m Comic Sans, Asshole; 2010 Bulwer-Lytton Contest Winners

Music: Ocean; Public Image Ltd.; Pat Metheny on Kenny G.

Pics: The Order of Things

Science: Big Cats Love Calvin Klein Cologne; Keeping A Wary Eye On Solar Weather; 10 Most Disturbing Scientific Discoveries

Spin Zone: David Souter’s Commencement Speech; Mind Over Mass Media; Merely Human?  That’s So Yesterday.

Travel: America’s Lesser-Known National Parks; America’s Most Underrated National Parks; A Vision Of Britian Through Time; Via Francigena; Photo Diary; Hotel Munch; Small Town Gems.

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This Month’s Web Bytes

NPR: All Things D

Clay Shirky: How Cognitive Surplus Will Change The World (TEDTalks)

Underwater Jumping

BP Spills Coffee

Vortex Cannon

Lake Street Creamery

When Five Fell (10:00)

Unlikely Friends (wonderful Orangutan + Hound Dog bonding, but takes :30 to load)

Idlekeyboard (sound busy when not)

Random Surrealism Generator

The Data-Driven Life

Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of judgment. We have blind spots in our field of vision and gaps in our stream of attention. Sometimes we can’t even answer the simplest questions. Where was I last week at this time? How long have I had this pain in my knee? How much money do I typically spend in a day? These weaknesses put us at a disadvantage. We make decisions with partial information. We are forced to steer by guesswork. We go with our gut.

That is, some of us do. Others use data. A timer running on Robin Barooah’s computer tells him that he has been living in the United States for 8 years, 2 months and 10 days. At various times in his life, Barooah — a 38-year-old self-employed software designer from England who now lives in Oakland, Calif. — has also made careful records of his work, his sleep and his diet.

Statistics Is The New Grammar

Dutch Marines board container ship captured by Somali Pirates

Tie Biz with Bill Murray

Crater Face (4:45)

Adverputt

Meowmania

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This month…

Blog Roll: The Quantified Self; The Origin/Evolution of Empathy; Letters To An Absent Father

Cooking: Recipes For Visual Thinkers; Does the Moon Affect How A Wine Tastes; why do forks Have 4 Tines; Look Past The Children’s Menu

Design: Pan Am’s Helvetica Dream; Making of Friskies “Adventureland”

History: Medievil Lands; Last Call; 5 Lesser Known Civil Wars; Fanboy!

Language Arts: The Geek Alphabet; Reading In A Digital Age; Henry Luce’s Prospectus For Time Magazine; A Spy Novel For The 21st Century; The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest…

Music: Ocean; Public Image Ltd.; Pat Metheny on Kenny G.

Pics: The Aura Project

Science: The Shadow Biosphere; Cotapixi Volcano Time Lapse Video

Spin Zone: Six Simple Steps To Really Fix Wall Street; Doomsayer’s Beware; What Did Jesus Do; How To Save The News

Travel: America’s Most Underrated National Parks; A Vision Of Britian Through Time; Via Francigena; Photo Diary; Hotel Munch; Small Town Gems.

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This Month’s Web Bytes

When Five Fell (10:00)

Unlikely Friends (wonderful Orangutan + Hound Dog bonding, but takes :30 to load)

Idlekeyboard (sound busy when not)

Random Surrealism Generator

The Data-Driven Life

Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of judgment. We have blind spots in our field of vision and gaps in our stream of attention. Sometimes we can’t even answer the simplest questions. Where was I last week at this time? How long have I had this pain in my knee? How much money do I typically spend in a day? These weaknesses put us at a disadvantage. We make decisions with partial information. We are forced to steer by guesswork. We go with our gut.

That is, some of us do. Others use data. A timer running on Robin Barooah’s computer tells him that he has been living in the United States for 8 years, 2 months and 10 days. At various times in his life, Barooah — a 38-year-old self-employed software designer from England who now lives in Oakland, Calif. — has also made careful records of his work, his sleep and his diet.

Statistics Is The New Grammar

Dutch Marines board container ship captured by Somali Pirates

Tie Biz with Bill Murray

Crater Face (4:45)

Adverputt

Meowmania

11 Most Endangered Historic Places

Just added to the Map Guide: Beauty of Maps - BBC series on maps; show blog.

DIY Orangutans

Movie Title Stills Collection

The Anachronism (15:00 Short)

The Cat With Hands (NSFSC - not safe for scaredy cats)

Execution.  Charlie Chaplin.  Bigamist.

Every Painting in the MoMA on April 10, 2010

Homage to The Whole Earth Catalog (Index) (access to articles in html)

The World’s Ugliest Statues

Just added to the Education Guide: People’s Archive - Great people telling their life stories.

Just added to the Arts Guide: 6 Myths of the Art Market - Bernard Ewell is an art appraiser who wrote a brief article explaining the 6 myths.  Explaining the high end, read The Art Market Explained.

Management Secrets of the Grateful Dead (Atlantic).

The Grateful Dead Archive, scheduled to open soon at the University of California at Santa Cruz, will be a mecca for academics of all stripes: from ethno­musicologists to philosophers, sociologists to historians. But the biggest beneficiaries may prove to be business scholars and management theorists, who are discovering that the Dead were visionary geniuses in the way they created “customer value,” promoted social networking, and did strategic business planning.

What Do You Suggest (How To…)

“Tell that optimist, if he touches my glass again I’ll knock his block off.”

Google Reader Play

Woodworks Library

Documentary Heaven

Best of the web nominees - museums (e.g. The MOMA on Bauhaus)

Virtual Sistine Chapel

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This month…

Blog Roll: The Far Left Side; Hyperbole and a Half; How I Did It; The Sunday Magazine

Cooking: Moleskin Recipe Journal; Edible Flags; Jeff Varasano’s NY Pizza Recipe; Cook Your Meat In A Beer Cooler; Dinner With Bill Murray

Design: Rumme.org; Lorem iPad; VW Recall; Beautifully Banal; Cartographies of Time; So You Need A Typeface

History: Survey of London; Wild Film History

Language Arts: Rosetta Project; If you can’t master English, try Globish; Analogies and metaphors of High School essays; The Master of Historical Fiction; Chronic Citizen; The Glass Box And The Commonplace Book

Music: Stairway To Heaven with Dolly Parton; Hallelujah (KD Lang vs. Leonard Cohen); John Prine’s Long Monday

Pics: BeetleCam Project; Henri Cartier-Bresson; Alternative Photography

Science: Pink Terror; Starry-Eyed Hubble Turns 20; 8 Wonders of the Solar System; Wisdom: From Philosophy To Neuroscience; Parrots, The Universe And Everything; Wormhole Research…

Spin Zone: The Collapse of Complex Business Models; Gainful Employment; A Critical Thinking Experiment In Real Time; The Imitation Economy; The Unknown Promise of Internet Freedom; The Pope, The Church And Skepticism

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

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This Month’s Web Bytes

Just added to the Map Guide: Beauty of Maps - BBC series on maps; show blog.

DIY Orangutans

Movie Title Stills Collection

The Anachronism (15:00 Short)

The Cat With Hands (NSFSC - not safe for scaredy cats)

Execution.  Charlie Chaplin.  Bigamist.

Every Painting in the MoMA on April 10, 2010

Homage to The Whole Earth Catalog (Index) (access to articles in html)

The World’s Ugliest Statues

Just added to the Education Guide: People’s Archive - Great people telling their life stories.

Just added to the Arts Guide: 6 Myths of the Art Market - Bernard Ewell is an art appraiser who wrote a brief article explaining the 6 myths.  Explaining the high end, read The Art Market Explained.

Management Secrets of the Grateful Dead (Atlantic).

The Grateful Dead Archive, scheduled to open soon at the University of California at Santa Cruz, will be a mecca for academics of all stripes: from ethno­musicologists to philosophers, sociologists to historians. But the biggest beneficiaries may prove to be business scholars and management theorists, who are discovering that the Dead were visionary geniuses in the way they created “customer value,” promoted social networking, and did strategic business planning.

What Do You Suggest (How To…)

“Tell that optimist, if he touches my glass again I’ll knock his block off.”

Google Reader Play

Woodworks Library

Documentary Heaven

Best of the web nominees - museums (e.g. The MOMA on Bauhaus)

Virtual Sistine Chapel

Nature By Numbers (short film by Cristobal Vila)

How To Die Well (Karen Armstrong at BigThink)

Our Vanishing Wilderness (1970 documentary on vanishing wildlife in America)

Then, the animated short The Man Who Planted Trees (Part2, Part 3)

Tree Branch vs. Power Line

Dogs catching treats in slow motion

Hungry Kittens

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This month…

Blog Roll: Mesofacts; The Omnivore; Art of the Steal

Cooking: Ruth Bourdain; Sous-Vide Steak; 24 Secret Restaurant Menus Revealed; The Day My Arse Died; The Cutting Edge; 100 Years Of What Americans Are Eating…

Design: British American Cover Art; The Meaning of Colour; The orange and teal appeal; Colors: Black; Gonzo In Wonderland; The Secret Language of Signs…

History: NeoAssyria; A History of the World in 100 Objects; The Nebraska Navy; The Dreyfus Affair; Apoca-lit Now…

Language Arts: Dreaming Methods; Hocus Bogus; Crash Blossoms; Library Science; On Jonathon Swift’s Poetry; David Mamet’s Master Class…

Music: Phantom of the Opera; iamamiwhoami; Collaboration; I Feel Better; The Steinway of Harmonicas; Variations; Direction Newhere

Pics: RIP Jim Marshall; The Wonders of China; Earth Art; The photograph that defined class divide

Science: Warning: Your Reality Is Out Of Date; Snave Vs. Dinosaur; Return of the Fungi; The Riddle of Experience Vs. Memory; Insectopedia; Report From Colbert

Spin Zone: Streams of Content; Does God Have A Future; Time To Start Taking The Internet Seriously; The Mousavi Mission; Teaching Compassion…

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

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This Month’s Web Bytes

Just added to the Education Guide: People’s Archive - Great people telling their life stories.

Just added to the Arts Guide: 6 Myths of the Art Market - Bernard Ewell is an art appraiser who wrote a brief article explaining the 6 myths.  Explaining the high end, read The Art Market Explained.

Management Secrets of the Grateful Dead (Atlantic).

The Grateful Dead Archive, scheduled to open soon at the University of California at Santa Cruz, will be a mecca for academics of all stripes: from ethno­musicologists to philosophers, sociologists to historians. But the biggest beneficiaries may prove to be business scholars and management theorists, who are discovering that the Dead were visionary geniuses in the way they created “customer value,” promoted social networking, and did strategic business planning.

What Do You Suggest (How To…)

“Tell that optimist, if he touches my glass again I’ll knock his block off.”

Google Reader Play

Woodworks Library

Documentary Heaven

Best of the web nominees - museums (e.g. The MOMA on Bauhaus)

Virtual Sistine Chapel

Nature By Numbers (short film by Cristobal Vila)

How To Die Well (Karen Armstrong at BigThink)

Our Vanishing Wilderness (1970 documentary on vanishing wildlife in America)

Then, the animated short The Man Who Planted Trees (Part2, Part 3)

Tree Branch vs. Power Line

Dogs catching treats in slow motion

Hungry Kittens

Taberinos (a bit addictive, frankly)

The LXD In The Internet Age (dance evolves at TED)

That’s What Bea Said

My Father’s Garden (Vimeo)

Why Ancient Wisdom Matters In The Modern World

Soft In The Middle (NewYorker)

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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.

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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

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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

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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

Top 25 Censored Stories For 2010

87 Cool Things

Virtual Museum of Iraq

10 GUI Touchpad

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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

Top 25 Censored Stories For 2010

87 Cool Things

Virtual Museum of Iraq

10 GUI Touchpad

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.