"…describes the efforts that went into designing the recently published war logs map of incidents revealed by Wikileaks…"

very nicely done

another facet of this horror

"…a simple but elegant interactive that lets you compare age distributions between countries, over time…" (age pyramids for just a few countries, but nice presentation)

if you haven't seen The Guardian's rendering of 300+ "incidents"… Â sez Wikileaks: "…shows the vast range of small tragedies that are almost never reported by the press but which account for the overwhelming majority of deaths and injuries resulting from the war."

one of my favorite photographers, combining Southeast Asian locales and foooood

maybe I've been reading too much sci-fi lately… this seems all too plausible

oh jeez, ANOTHER tool fantasy to entertain

uh huh (via ReadWrite Web)

"…not only of all the locations where Weegee took photographs but including a clip from the newspaper. There is tons of other interesting stuff at ICP's 'Weegee's World' including photos, audio and a searchable database, but this is genius."
Yes it is.

amazing: "…presents over 6,000 images of major sites in the Silk Road region taken during faculty site seminars led by Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan (Professor, History of Art) under the auspices of the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University in the summers of 2006-2009…"

(very helpful advice for those of us who struggle with iTunes, thanks to the CogDog)

(a nice meditation on a passage from Melville, prompting me to excavate and reread Benito Cereno)

(I've been collecting these myself for years, and of COURSE Flickr has a mountain of them… why'd it take me so long to find them?)

oh jeez