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(as usual, there may be more than one)
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mmmmm
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TED Talks: Historian George Dyson tells stories from the birth of the modern computer
links for 2008-06-17
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the utter hopelessness of it all, via Guardian video: Afghanistan – Lost in translation
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(the Earth has just shifted again)
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What happens when you make close to 2,000 ephemeral public domain films freely available on the Web? People make art and more films are born!
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“Zombies lack the intelligence to work even a simple doorknob…”
Annals of Choreography
This prize is from Echidne of the Snakes:
links for 2008-06-16
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BetterBadNews: BERKELEY KID PUTS BIG BROTHER ON TERROR WATCH LIST
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I learned a little something from seeing the array
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see also the Jools Holland ‘Related’ videos
Everybody else is doing it
…so why not me too?
I’ve discovered a thing or two about my long-run interests by looking through this Wordle display of del.icio.us tags, though it would be nice to see an animated version, growing chronologically… This array of the tags gives direct access to the whole set.
links for 2008-06-15
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from YouTube
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via Bruce Sterling’s Beyond the Beyond. Sez Bruce: yikes!
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90 minutes, streaming
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Kate Beaton’s unerring ear for speakers
links for 2008-06-14
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online topo maps, US and Canada, this one showing Horton Landing Nova Scotia
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“an easily accessible user created database of information pertaining to the art and science of anything audio or sound related”
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Search Multiple Text Files at Once
links for 2008-06-13
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“elegant word clouds” generated from text files
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(text grabbed from Vanity Fair July 2008, by Keenan Mayo and Peter Newcomb)
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wow. double wow.
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“Find your user guide, user guide, instruction manual or owner manual instantly”, “an archive covering 3,627 brands and housing 883,542 manuals…”
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How-To on Flickr, from ibftp
links for 2008-06-12
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from EatingAsia, a daube of kambing
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“An Interactive Look at the Latest Weather Reports”, “mashes up reports from the NWS, NOAA and the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) and the data is updated every 5 minutes…”
links for 2008-06-11
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from Shorpy
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via Bruce Sterling’s Beyond the Beyond