Individual interest starters
- 22 April 2008 -
Jake
Shimabukuro on the ukulele, It
really starts to get good at the 2:40 mark
- 17 April 2008 - TED talks -
Thomas Barnett: The Pentagon's new map for war and peace
- 15 April 2008 - TED talks -
Hans
Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen
- 10 April 2008 - TED talks -
Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo
- 08 April 2008 -
TED talks -
Jonathan Harris: The Web's secret stories
- 03 April 2008 - TED
talks -
Nicholas Negroponte: The vision behind One Laptop Per Child (in 2006)
- 01 April 2008
- TED talks -
Nicholas Negroponte: From 1984, 4 predictions about the future (3 of them
correct)
- 27 March 2008 - CompAnalyst, The industry’s largest database of executive compensation data.
- 25 March 2008 - The connectedness of things. The Visual Thesaurus is an interactive dictionary and thesaurus with an innovative display that encourages exploration and learning.
- 20 March 2008 -
Fedspending.org,
"a free, searchable database of federal government spending."
- 18 March 2008 -
Use
Nikon's Universcale to experience the sizes of various objects.
- 06
March 2008 -
The Cost of War, by the National Priorities Project.
Look at the
code to see how the page works.
- 04
March 2008 - "high speed internet access" in the USA??
- 28 February 2008 -
Riding along with the Internet Bookmobile.
Angered by a law that extends
copyright terms for 20 years, a crusader named Brewster Kahle wants to use
the Internet to make books available to everyone. by Richard Koman,
Salon.com, 09 Oct 2002
- 26 February 2008
-
The Mysterious Voynich Manuscript
- 21 February 2008
-
The Most Unusual Books of the World
- 19 February 2008
- is this
a moving GIF or just an illusion?
- 14 February 2008 - "How
one clumsy ship cut off the web for 75 million people", by Bobbie
Johnson, technology correspondent, The Guardian, Friday, 01 February
2008. Note also the
full-sized graphic.
- 12 February 2008 -
The New Opel Corsa
- 07 February 2008 -
Kuler, an Adobe tool
that can help us to make the choice of complementary color schemes for
websites
- 05 February 2008 -
Guide to
Springfield USA. Some people have too much time on their hands.
- 31 January 2008 -
Jackson Pollock
- by Miltos Manetas, 2003, original flash animation by Michal Migurski
- 29 January 2008 -
Piero Scaruffi's
knowledge base. An article in the New York Times said it this
isn't the best web site of all time, it's at least one of the most visited.
Look at his eclectic best-of lists and see if you agree with them, or if you
learn anything from them.
- 24 January 2008 -
Going Viral - Internet Classics, from Bob Rankin. Ever since the Web
went graphical in the early 1990's, there have been people motivated to
create websites that exist only to be amusing, annoying or completely
useless. And like a car wreck, we just can't keep ourselves from looking at
these things... and telling all our friends. Consider these Internet
Classics required viewing. They're part of Internet lore and legend, and
everyone should see all of them at least once.
- 22 January 2008 -
Newsmap, a way to look at news in a different way
- 17 January 2008 - Ms. Dewey,
a new kind of search engine. Ask her to tell you something about UNIX.
In fact, ask the same question three times in row and see the
responses. It didn't take long for her to be "outed as Microsoft's experimental search engine."
- 15 January 2008 - The Human Clock™ - A Clock Photo for Every Minute of the Day
- 10 January 2008 - what's hot right
now on
del.icio.us
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