(via zefrank.com: Daichi seems to be the kid's name)

now this Interface really is worthwhile… if only the NEWS was equally worthwhile. You CAN use Google search magic, like -Fox to exclude items from Fox news, and the search draws upon a pretty astounding range of sources

still in its early stages, but growing nicely: "a social music website built around a curated library of free, legal audio"

Adrian Covert at Gizmodo: "The MP3 era is enabling the music junkie's futile quest to stay up on all music, at all times… As a result, you find people digging deeper into genres that they really like…"

from Shorpy

from Design Engineering News, via Gizmodo. whoooooo…

via David Weinberger's Joho the Blog, and a fine example of mutifaceted music writing

what a trove: 1500+ highly intelligent commentaries, indexed by geographical area

via the Preface to In The Vernacular: photography of the everyday (B.U. Art Gallery, 2008), a nice array of links to vernacular photography resources

it doesn't get much stranger than this… (from Wrath of the Grapevine) …even on April Fools Day

from International Dialects of English Archive

h-yup.

my oh my oh my

oh my… simply amazing in concept and execution, using the Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music as a launch pad, "a roadmap to explore american folk music and maybe other countries traditions along the way. I’ll use texts, images, music and videos gathered from my personal collection and from the net…"

"integrates the formal principles of the Bauhaus Basic Course into an introduction to digital media production with the Adobe Creative Suite…" and is FREE in wiki form and CreativeCommons. A wonderful example of effective Teaching

(it remains to be seen what "Global" really means, but worth a try anyhow)