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31 Dec 2006
For no reason at all, here's every weblog linked to in a via (or similar) during our august threeish year history. I'll be adding a "Weblogs Via" blogroll to the template which will be updated regularly as I damn well feel like it. Why not just add them to the "Cool & Interesting" roll? Are they not cool and interesting?Some have only been via'd once and, more to the point, they're mostly not link blogs. So they get a separate roll and should be damned grateful for it. Barista isn't a link blog. Aren't your criteria a tad arbitrary?No, but Barista is eclectic and I'd taken so many vias from Mr Tiley it was getting ridiculous not to acknowledge the fact. Now visitors can go straight there instead of wasting their time here. Uh huh. Any particular reason they're listed in strict alphabetical order rather than sensibly?You know, Mr Talks-In-Italics, I don't recall asking for your opinion so why don't you just sod off. What a strange little man you are.Yeah, yeah... anyhoo, here's the list. 100 Monkeys Typing
A Blog Around the Clock
A Tiny Revolution
Antony Loewenstein
BLDGBLOG
Bob Harris
Boudist.com
Brilliant at Breakfast
Buck Hill
Chase Me Ladies, I'm in the Cavalry
Creek Running North
Crooked Timber
Cruel.com
Cute Overload
Dead Channel
Deviled Ham
Firedoglake
From the Heart of Europe
Gizmodo
Google Maps Mania
Happy Furry Puppy Time
Hey Jenny Slater
Interconnected
Jesus of the Week
John Scalzi
Kill the Afterlife
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub
Neal Pollack
Optical Illusions Etc
PCL Linkdump
Pharyngula
PR Watch: Spin of the Day
Progressive Programmer
Red State Son
Some of the Corpses are Amusing
Sterne
Talking Squid
TBogg
The Allen Almanac
The Axis of Evel Knievel
The City of Floating Blogs
The Language Log
The Museum of Online Museums
The Panopticist
The Patent Room
The Poor Man Institute
Tiddly Pom
White Chocolate Jesus
William Gibson
Zellar: Open All NightIncidentally, one of these sites links to the source of nearly all my uncredited links - see if you can find out which one! See y'all in the new year.
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30 Dec 2006
PlanetocopiaPlanetocopia is a group of model worlds supporting intelligent life. Some of these worlds are set in our future, some are alternate Earths, some are purely imaginary experiments in planetology, biology, sociology. They fall into four series: Tilt!, Futures, the Biosphere Variations, and Caprices. Via From the Heart of Europe.
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26 Dec 2006
More belated Christmas cheer: a shockwave animation of The Drifters' version of "White Christmas".
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Santa attacked by pie-lobbing yobsThe gang of yobs pelted Father Christmas with mince pies from the floor above as bemused customers looked on in horror.
Now centre chiefs have issued Santa with a hard hat to protect him from any further attacks. Being able to travel round the world really, really fast and squeeze down any chimney clearly isn't much use as a super-power. Meanwhile, as at latest bulletins, goat still unscorched.
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Something a bit serious: Washington StakeoutWeek-in, week-out, day-in, day-out, public figures responsible for and able to influence policy make themselves available in Washington, DC.
The Washington Stakeout strives to take advantage of these opportunities and ask direct questions — we think the answers and non-answers, confirmations, denials and non-denials will be telling. Via A Tiny Revolution.
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18 Dec 2006
WordCountAn online application that lists 86,800 English words in order of their frequency of use. Allows you to look up both words and ranks. Also via The Language Log.
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12 Dec 2006
The Unsuggester at LibraryThing. Unsuggester takes "people who like this also like that" and turns it on its head. It analyzes the seven million books LibraryThing members have recorded as owned or read, and comes back with books least likely to share a library with the book you suggest. If you own or have read Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee you will not own or have read the Harry Potter Boxed Set. If you own or have read Clive Barker's Books of Blood you will not own or have read The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. If you own or have read The Selfish Gene you will not own or have read Virginia Andrews' Flowers in the Attic. Well, thank Christ for that. Via The Language Log.
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9 Dec 2006
Via that Red Paperclip Guy, The 1 Second Film worldwide charity event thingy.
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Showcase at the Beinart International Surreal Art Collective of exceptional collaborations from The Exquisite Corpse Club at the unfortunately named DeviantArt website. Exquisite Corpse: Among Surrealist techniques exploiting the mystique of accident was a kind of collective collage of words or images called the cadavre exquis (exquisite corpse). Based on an old parlor game, it was played by several people, each of whom would write a phrase on a sheet of paper, fold the paper to conceal part of it, and pass it on to the next player for his contribution...
It was natural that such oracular truths should be similarly sought through images, and the game was immediately adapted to drawing, producing a series of hybrids the first reproductions of which are to be found in No. 9-10 of La Révolution surrealiste (October, 1927) without identification of their creators. The game was adapted to the possibilities of drawing, and even collage, by assigning a section of a body to each player, though the Surrealist principle of metaphoric displacement led to images that only vaguely resembled the human form. See also. The boings led me to Beinart.
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8 Dec 2006
Look Around YouOne simple way to think of Science is to imagine it as a giant, spinning roulette wheel whose numbers correspond to the great Scientists (1=Newton, 2=Einstein, 3=Quarnborg, 4=Ninn, and so on. (The ball represents Time.)).
Look Around You is an eight-part series designed to promote the understanding of Science in a simple and concise format. Although aimed at those of school-age, we are sure that many adults will also find it of interest. "Look Around You" on Youtube
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6 Dec 2006
MapLib turns uploaded images into a zoomable, draggable custom Google Map complete with annotations.
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From the "You learn something every day" file: ParkourNeutral Moresnet and AmikejoAnd from Youtube: The reactable, is a multi-user electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving physical objects on a luminous table surface. By moving and relating these objects, representing components of a classic modular synthesizer, users can create complex and dynamic sonic topologies, with generators, filters and modulators, in a kind of tangible modular synthesizer or graspable flow-controlled programming language. And a collection of "Donald Rumsfeld at the podium" bits from The Late Late Show. Last two via Antony Loewenstein.
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2 Dec 2006
Two and a half years ago (August 2004), I posted a link to some drawings an artist had drawn while on LSD, done as a US government experiment back in the 50s. I've only just discovered I'd completely bollixed the coding such that the link was not clickable (anyone who actually found their way to the site would have had to have dug the URL out of the page's source code). It's fixed now, but for the hell of it here's that link again.
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1 Dec 2006
If you're tired of the run-of-the-mill "On this day in history..." sites, try The Axis of Evel Knievel weblog, which is more along the lines of "On this day in history, something godawful happened." Fascinating, well-written detail on the massacres, tragedies and destructive stupidities that make history such a cheery subject of study - what's not to like?
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