[learn] - Duelity
Frans Lanting's lyrical nature photos | Video on TED.com (download or watch fullscreen)
How to fix a broken butterfly wing - Live Monarch Foundation - youtube (thanks joel!)
GOOD: Vampire Energy - youtube - unplug your microwave! (via)
The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard - cartoons and guilt!
Absolute Zero | A Sense of Scale | NOVA | PBS
An Interactive Database of Ideas - BusinessWeek
Growing up online | FRONTLINE | PBS
[books] - Penguin Modern Classics Obsession Part Two
Cara Barer Photographer (3 galleries worth)
Laser-cut art book by Olafur Eliasson
The E. Lingle Craig Preservation Laboratory - Repair and Enclosure Treatment Manual
If you read Kurt Vonnegut when you were young
swissmiss: feel like rearranging your books? that's a horrifying stack.
How and Why Wonder Books. i can smell them already.
Venezuela's four-legged mobile libraries
[Thanks for the prod netami. regular irregularity shall resume shortly...)
[books] - Bibliochaise
Bookshelves - 30 of the Most Creative Designs
How to Make a Handbag from a Book
Most Interesting Bookstores of the World
[learn] - Happy Pi Day!
repeat after these 57 people... 3.14159 26535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510
Pi is exactly 3! (and more, at Here's a slice of π | MetaFilter)
TEDBlog: A non-trivial holiday
[typography] - Zoomorphic Calligraphy
Newzald: From Moleskine to Market. steps in the creation of a font.
Typographica identifies all the fonts in the font-o-riffic opening...
[lists] - Worldometers - real time world statistics and the Worldclock and Earthclock. Welcome to the future. (I've always wanted to create something like this, and finally I find 3!)
Timeline of historic inventions
List of people widely considered to be eccentric. (not considered worthy of keeping as an official article, but copied by one of the users prior to deletion)
Template:Irreligion, a list of irreligious beliefs
The First Telephone Book (via)
Fimoculous.com: 2006 Lists and Fimoculous.com: 2007 Lists
Canadian Place Names (unusual and unique) and other links to Place names considered unusual
and I seem to have added a list of admittable or great television shows to my film page... (woe. though I did have fun going through youtube clips, checking that certain things lived up to their memories :)
[cats] - YouTube - 3 bengal cats on exercise wheel
YouTube - Christian the Lion Reunion! It really doesn't get better than that. Watch, then read, then watch again.
although 4 kittens and a box, for 2 minutes comes close
WiiKitty.com - cats... with Wii controllers... the internet is so weird.
US cat 'predicts patient deaths', and Oscar (cat) at Wikipedia
Directory of inter-species snorgling (that's a technical term..) many cats, plus else.
Kattbank - bench/litterbox
[art] - Nothing beats the giant duck. Why a giant duck? This summer, why not?
Picopico’s Monster Suit Paradise!
The Vader Project and a few more at flickr (and someone's ATAT walker)
the what did i eat? ephunt & popping through pictures book
Business Cards collection
[toys] - Bong-Bong Boxer
Experiment #0227 and Alright in There
Nanospores and Your Momma
Scott Campbell: Misforming Transformers
Art Artmy Action Figures and lots more by Mike Leavitt
Spookypop : The art of Doktor A.
Lego Clock Index and Forbidden Lego
Killer reel of 1970s toy commercials
[music] - YouTube - Battle of The Bands
FM3: Buddha Machine - PopMatters, Pitchfork, Wikipedia, Cool Tool
How to DJ your first set without knowing how.
YouTube - Helsinki Complaints Choir
Score for a Hole in the Ground
St. Vincent: "Paris Is Burning" (live)
[maps] - playgraphic - map of allowed wanderings
Flip Flop Flyin' - FFF pictorial atlas of the world
Scale Model of Mountain Range in China’s Military Installation.
BibliOdyssey: Theatri Orbis Terrarum Enchiridion
Kircher: Urville: The Imaginary City and A Short History of Celestial Cartography and The Mapparium and Muggletonian Celestial Prints and Milestones in the History of Thematic Cartography
Jeff's Notable Google Earth Placemarks and Topics (hundreds of GEarth links)
[film] - Buzz Image | Making Of - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Life Obsessive With Wes Anderson -- New York Magazine
Trailer 1 from "Truth in Numbers: The Wikipedia Story" and production podcasts giving a great behind the scenes look
Kierkegaards Narrative, with the most wonderful list of examples summarized by "Aesthetic Preoccupation", "Affairs", and "Existential Humanist Act"
Cinema owners try to lure us back to the movies - Boing Boing has some great comments after the "update"
Trailer for Drawing Restraint 9 the new movie by Matthew Barney and Bjork (see Drawing Restraint 9 - Wikipedia)
and I updated my film page. there's a whole new "other favourites" section at the bottom
[misc] - Did I lend you: the book Cats Don't Exist or the movies High Fidelity and Annie Hall? I can't find them anywhere...
[learn] - E.O. Wilson: TED Prize wish: Help build the Encyclopedia of Life (22 minute video) (or download the 330mb version)
and the shorter interface demonstration at: EoL.org (4 minute video)
EoL will launch in mid 2008. It will incorporate information from the Catalogue of Life (1,008,965 species listed), amongst other sources.
(see also Wikispecies (100,000 species listed) one of the 9 official wikimedia sister projects, which might end up merging into one of these?)
e.g. the yeti crab:
at Encyclopedia of Life:– yeti crab
at Catalogue of Life:– yeti crab
at Wikipedia:– yeti crab
at Wikispecies:– yeti crab
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