• Worldmapper: The world as you've never seen it before
  (tags: visualization mapping geography geospatial)

• EatingAsia: Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Dish
  (the opening slide show is not to be missed)
  (tags: food)

• Milestones in the History of Thematic Cartography, Statistical Graphics, and Data Visualization
  (tags: visualization data geospatial)

• Augmented Irreality
  I'm beginning to catch on, just beginning. It's the coat and hat in the foreground that really tips ME over the edge.
  (tags: animation whoa)

• Diachronic Toponymy in Google Books
  …oooooo… just my sort of thing
  (tags: toponymy geospatial visualization chronotope)

• Mr. Penumbra’s Twenty-Four-Hour Book Store (robinsloan.com)
  wonderful, and Escape Pod has it in mp3 format ( here )
  (tags: visualization scifi)
• New Addition to American Memory Project: American English Dialect Recordings
  (via ResourceShelf –alas, New England isn't very well represented)
  (tags: dialects language)
• Hans Rosling: Let my dataset change your mindset
  (if you HAVEN'T seen it, use 20 minutes… you surely won't regret the investment, and it's simply magnificent teaching. Hang on to 18:00 to learn about Konzo, which will surely be new to you as it was to me)
  (tags: data visualization demography tools)

• Spot the Prat returns: Junior Champs 1911
  good old Shorpy
  (tags: prattitude photography)

Jacob Bronowski, via ZeFrank, and Warren Ellis too (a strange pair, perhaps, but the clip is all the more essential in light of their shared interest):