• The Drinky The Crow Show!
  bizarre? or merely unique?
  (tags: whoa)
• The Virtual Typewriter Museum
  “deals with the history of the development of the manual typewriter” –essential, no doubt about it
  (tags: technologies writing)
• Tide charts and tide tables – Marine weather forecasts and weather reports – Buoy reports
  TENANTS HARBOR, Maine and nearby
  (tags: mashup geospatial)

• MindMaps – a photoset on Flickr
  (tags: images visualization)

NB that the wonderful Shorpy 100-Year-Old Photo Blog is now encouraging the contribution of photographs, and that http://www.shorpy.com/yourphotos has an RSS feed. Luvvit.

• William Gibson quotes Thomas Mann
  whoooooeeee…
  (tags: argybargy quotations)
• Twitterverse
  “a visualization of the most commonly used words in a given time period”
  (tags: mashup twitter)

I know I shouldn’t give in to such impulses, but I jes’ can’t help myself. I promise to reform…

• 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)

Miranda July’s innovative Web design strategy is completely convincing, and casts interesting lights in all sorts of directions while getting her message across memorably. When I came to it, I hit the “buy” button, figuring that anything that clever has earned a supportive response. Another surprise brought to my attention by if:book, a continuing source of stuff I’m glad I encountered.

• First! (an Art Form)
  “without a first poster, there wouldn’t be a second poster”
  (tags: video metastuff)
• America’s Highway: Oral Histories of Route 66
  an excellent example of the utility of Google’s My Maps
  (tags: geospatial mashup)
• Boston Area – Chowhound
  (put it where I can FIND it!)
  (tags: food)
• Quickly embed an image without hotlinking
  just what it says
  (tags: from Lifehacker images geekery)

• Make Google Maps YOUR Maps
  official and complete, all in one place
  (tags: mashup web2.0 tools geospatial)

• Tom Harrisson: The Barefoot Anthropologist – Google Video
  Sarawak connections, other stuff too
  (tags: anthropology)