"…analysed basic vocabulary from 400 languages in this database using computational phylogenetic methods to build a set of "family" trees for the languages of the Pacific. The results clearly show that the origin of the entire Austronesian language family can be dated back to Taiwan around 5,200 years ago, and moved through Island South-East Asia, along New Guinea and into Polynesia…"

truly astounding. zoom in to various of your favorites, explore the moment on thousands of faces, feel the cold

many many very excellent

an arresting presentation and a phrenologist's dream

another take on Legacy, and then we can just FUGGEDABOUDIT!

danah boyd's brave posting of The Whole Thing (Taken Out of Context: American Teen Sociality in Networked Publics), and one that I should make the space to read, if only to better grasp the next generation of Nacirema culture

from Strange Maps, a fine example of a Kidmap (and an opportunity to consider the algorithms that place Google ads…)

from Informed Comment. "…Why is it that wastrels who find faith are so insufferable?" is a money quote for me, but the whole thing is a must-read

legacy

Jonathan Haeber's wonderful photographs of all sorts of things

via Gizmodo, and I suppose EVERYbody will be pointing to it. Yes, totally amazing

how many Ws?

someday we'll laugh at these without pain…

video on Laurie Munn's illustration project, based in a 1965 high school yearbook

via information aesthetics