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links for 2007-04-08

• Brook Benton and friends
  surely one of the strangest buts ...erm... bits of music video of all time
  (tags: musics video whoa)
• Ethnographic Database Project
  shades of Textor's Cross-Cultural Summary!
  (tags: anthropology data web2.0)
• Sounds Familiar? Accents and Dialects of the UK
  "captures and celebrates the diversity of spoken English in the second half of the twentieth century" in soundclips
  (tags: dialects language geospatial)
• "Tableau Of A Lithotomy" by Marin Marais (mp3s)
  with commentary. A MUST!
  (tags: musics whoa)
• Walt Whitman, Mark Twain and Anthony Comstock
  Virginia Quarterly Review raises the veil
  (tags: argybargy)