Articles tagged: cool websites
Column: This Week's Web Picks: where crime stops; a hoax shall set you free; music zones and zoning
Posted: Nov 24, 2012This is the next in a series of posts on interesting and useful websites. Omega CrimeMapping Last week's reported crime in the West Palm Beach, Fla. area While AnnArbor.com reports daily on nearly every notable ... Read more »
Column: This Week's Web Picks: echoes of civilization; pomo jumbo; China all the time
Posted: Nov 17, 2012This is the next in a series of posts about interesting and useful websites. ECHO Ur III period cuneiform tablet at Harvard's Semitic Museum, from ECHO portal It is time once again to revive your ... Read more »
Column: This Week's Web Picks: film: studying is believing; macrocosmic Buddhism; the last great wordbook
Posted: Nov 03, 2012This is the next in a series of columns about useful and interesting websites. Film Studies for Free Framing Incandescence: Elizabeth Taylor in JANE EYRE from Catherine Grant on Vimeo. By now it shouldn't surprise ... Read more »
Column: This Week's Web Picks: rock ephemera forever; the last time I saw Paderewski; history at best
Posted: Oct 13, 2012This is the next in a series of posts about interesting and useful websites. One of Jimi Hendrix's Asian-style silk shirts, worn in 1967 Hard Rock Cafe Memorabilia All rules breed exceptions. Though I normally ... Read more »
Column: This Week's Web Picks: speaking freely; the corrections; yesterday's news; the many tongued-Bible
Posted: Sep 22, 2012This is the next in a series of post about interesting and useful websites. First Amendment Center Who doesn't believe in free speech and the First Amendment? Free speech can seem like a Biblical injunction. ... Read more »
Column: This Week's Web Picks: datavision; turning tables into facts; a bird in your ear; anybody's buddy
Posted: Sep 01, 2012Facebook Friends (from Visual Complexity) This is the next in a series of posts about interesting and useful websites.Visual Complexity A picture used to be worth 1,000 words. What's it worth now? This adage is ... Read more »
COLUMN: This Week's Web Picks: an animated calling; all kinds of weather; a name and a place; script writing
Posted: Aug 25, 2012This is the next in a series of posts about interesting and useful websites.Small Time Inc. Stephen Irwin is a highly talented maker of quirky animated films. His Moxie won the Audience Award at this ... Read more »
Column: This Week's Web Picks: the central facts; 197,000 crimes; the new abnormal; dead letters
Posted: Aug 18, 2012This is one of a series of posts highlighting useful or interesting websites. The World Factbook Put aside for the moment the fact that Syria is ruled by a mass-murdering tyrant. All you really want ... Read more »
Column: This Week's Web Picks: bug-eyed; the music squeezer; keeping food edible; it's all About what?
Posted: Aug 11, 2012This is one of a series of posts highlighting useful or interesting websites.Bug Guide Is a centipede less frightening if you know it's a Scolopocryptops sexspinosus? Are you kidding? Yes or no, some of us ... Read more »
Column: This Week's Web Picks: one more forgotten genius; the weblog that won't go away; Google: compared to what?; Vitamin B-3
Posted: Aug 04, 2012This is the next in a series of posts highlighting useful and interesting websites. Athanasius Kircher at Stanford You remember Athanasius Kircher, don't you? You don't? In the 17th century he "was widely regarded as ... Read more »
Column: This Week's Web Picks: spoken like a mind; art fare; life's sideshows; what the Dickens
Posted: Jul 28, 2012This is the next in a series of posts highlighting useful and interesting websites. TED In only a few years, the TED organization has become the international leader in thinking by video. TED talks are ... Read more »
Column: This Week's Web Picks: Found art; the solitary life; the rest is music; 9/11: televising and believing
Posted: Jul 21, 2012This is the next in a series of posts highlighting useful and interesting websites. Found Magazine Remember "found art?" The Dadaists and Surrealists found objects like Duchamp's toilet and "declared" them works of art. Well, ... Read more »
Column: This Week's Web Picks: Life's lengths; creative sadness; the screen as teacher; the web as personal footprint
Posted: Jul 07, 2012Life Is Short This is self-indulgence. It's my nominee for one of the greatest full-length movies ever made - primarily because during its full length of about 52 seconds, it perfectly communicates its message. Read more »
Column: This Week's Web Picks: War! What it is good for; watch the birdie; making movies cinematic; when science is embarrassing
Posted: Jun 30, 2012This is the next in a series of posts highlighting useful and interesting websites. The American Civil War Homepage Take a look at these musical Civil War celebrations, courtesy of the 2nd South Carolina String ... Read more »
Column: This Week's Web Picks: A list of lists; online exhibitions; vacation rooms of one's own; advancing the avant-garde
Posted: Jun 23, 2012Listverse What are the top 10 reasons we should revive the Dark Ages? It's a question I've rarely asked myself - until now. But maybe the 15 fascinating facts about salt are more compelling? Or ... Read more »
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