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Tuning The World - Organized like a brick-and-mortar museum, Paper Veins holds a film room, a poetry room, four floors of exhibition space and, on the top floor, The Artists' Café where artists and their portfolios are profiled. Mercury Rising - Mercury Rising visitors can join a 10-day photo-documentary trip with an eco-photographer and a journalist as they explore the Monteverde Cloud Forest of Costa Rica to discover what global warming is doing to plants and animals. Internet Archive Movie Collection - At the Internet Archive Movie Collection, where 956 "ephemeral" films made by trade groups, industry, schools and governments have been digitized for public viewing for the first time. SHORT
TAKES: Marry Theresa - Theresa is a girl who is looking for love in one great big public place. The 34-year-old rented a billboard on Interstate-24 in Nashville to proclaim her husband search and then launched a web site, Marry Theresa, to spell out what she wants in a man and what she's willing to give. Kill Your PC - The Illustrated Guide to Killing your PC details how to torment the thing, whether smashing the smirk right off its irritating little monitor or taking a pocket blowtorch to its motherboard. <><><><><><><><> Road Sign Rites - "Many signs are worth a closer look," writes Bartolomeo Mecánico at his site devoted to collecting and examining roadside signs warning about falling rocks, schools and road work ahead - all on an international scale. Broken Saints - From the first screen, Broken Saints is clearly something new in the universe of storytelling -- an animation, but sure not a cartoon; a novel, but sure not Dickens. Speak Out - Billed as America's leading non-partisan Internet activism web site and opinion research company, Speak Out launched two years ago to help citizens express themselves. Bad Science Projects - Bad Science Projects is a blog -- or personal web site collection of links and posts -- about the oddball things people do in the name of scientific discovery. The Olympic Storyteller - The Olympic spirit moves across the land as we watch young people the world over slide down, glide over and leap from snow and ice at the 2002 Winter Olympics. Northern Lights
- For centuries, Aurora Borealis
has inspired stories, myths and art to explain its mystery. At Northern
Lights, scientists take their shot, explaining the physics, structure
and measuring instruments to File Basket - Those who devour new software can satisfy their cravings at File Basket, where a ration of software is served up daily, and where users keep track of software subscriptions for updates, upgrades, bugs and new releases. Chronicle of the Future - Take a pharmacologist, a historian, a physicist, a linguist, a media exec and other headline-making experts, put them all on a panel and ask, "OK, what's next?" SHORT
TAKES: Tolkien
Speaks
- The lord himself tells what
drove him to write "The Hobbit" and describes Asteroid Insurance - Insurance goes galactic at Asteroid Insurance, where for less than 20 bucks you can buy a $10 million policy that will compensate you if you are hit by an asteroid. <><><><><><><><> The Bosch Universe - Visitors enter the artist's fantastic vision of the superstition and faith, virtue and sin, mystery and death that lurched through the Dark Ages. Atomic Cartoons - One of Canada's leading animation studios showcases Canadian animators, Flash artists and directors at Atomic Cartoons. TV Tunes Online - If the words "schlemezel, schlemazel" still bring a smile, you'll bury yourself in this digital treasure chest of familiar tunes and jingles, from westerns as ancient as Jim Bowie to obscure cartoons like Cool McCool. The Virtual Acquisition Shelf and News Desk - Created for information professionals, the site offers daily synopses of reports from sources as wide as the Congressional Research Service to the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division of the American Publishing Association. Stinkers
of the 20th Century
- Released in January 2001
after a two-year online poll, The 100 Worst Films Inside the Teenage Brain - PBS' Frontline comes to the rescue with Inside the Teenage Brain, giving a scientific basis for what kids and parents may already know: Sometimes, teens are nuts. Feeling Gamey - Take a break at Orisinal Games, with its simple games on a beautifully designed site where the navigation is as uncluttered as the challenges. Planet Quest - Earth, the solar system, stars and galaxies and where we're headed, planet-wise, are all covered on this comprehensive site about space and beyond. SHORT
TAKES: Banished Words of 2002 - New words come, go and accumulate, many of them meaningless, useless or just plain annoying. For 27 years, Lake Superior State University has been banishing them, and the university has just released its Banished Words of 2002. ANIMEtion - Discover Japanese animation, known as "anime," the highly stylized, colorful and wildly popular art form based on myth and traditional Japanese dramatic arts that is nothing like the cartoons of your youth. <><><><><><><><> The Online Experience Music Project - Seattle has long been THE scene for alternative music, so it is a natural home to the real-life and online Experience Music Project. One Man's Eye - The eye at One Man's Eye, a site offering an eclectic collection of mostly 20th century photographic images, belongs to Alan Siegel, an astute and sensitive collector of photographs for more than 30 years. Audio Reviews - Talk about home theater systems, find a vintage amp for sale or read reviews of the newest flat-panel TVs at Audio Reviews, a place for audiophiles to hang with their own kind and talk about subwoofers till they're blue in the face. LibrarySpot - A"vertical portal" that helps users sidestep information overload to access the best library and reference materials on the web today. Design Not Found - At Design Not Found, the web team called 37 Signals dissects examples of "contingency design," or the way web sites communicate with visitors when things go south. The Secret Lives of Numbers - The relative popularity of every integer between 0 and one million is revealed. Deadly Follies of Stick Figure Warning-Man - Without eyes, ears or a mouth, no wonder that poor little guy who is all arms and legs gets into so many scrapes, detailed at the Deadly Follies of Stick Figure Warning-Man. Walk The Wall - Stroll on the Great Wall of China do so from their desktops with a point-and-click 360-degree tour of the 2,000-year old wonder of the world. SHORT
TAKES: 50 Best Album Covers - At Rolling Stone's 50 Best Album Covers, memorable and magnificent album art is remembered as visitors judge just what was and perhaps still is the best of the best. Ooglegay Earchsay - Pig Latin may be the universal language, at least among eccentrics, and Google caters to the crowd at Igpay Atlinla, its own search engine written entirely in Pig Latin. <><><><><><><><> The
Date-My-Sister Project -
In
order to appreciate the true genius of the site, visitors should go step
Monster Squid - On the Trail of the Giant Squid takes visitors with marine biologists as they try to find and capture baby squid to learn more about these mysterious monsters. Miserable Melodies - Visitors select from actors, actresses or singers or listen to the tunes based on ratings, starting with the very worst of the worst. Comedian Videos by Topic - Laff Site is more than just another web site with lots of jokes --- it's the whole routine in sound and video. Italy on the Grand Tour - In the museum and on the web site, the experience is presented in three exhibitions through paintings, pastels, sculpture, antiquities, books, and souvenir prints covering Naples from 1764 to 1800, Rome, and the Italian provinces. Museum of Hoaxes - At the Museum of Hoaxes, suckers are in good company as they trace the history of hoaxes as far back as 756 AD. Medicine and Madison Avenue - The relationship between medicine and advertising is explored through images and info for 600 health-related newspaper and magazine ads from 1910 through the 1950s. A Clown for Our Time - The clown who offered breakfast in bed for 400,000 at Woodstock in 1969 is still going strong, even though he's well past the "don't trust anyone over 30" mark. SHORT
TAKES: Rank My Pet - Post a photo and let the Oohs and Ahs rain down, or not. Odd Couples - Strange couplings in the animal world are the subject of this site where the photos and the motivation are equally amazing. <><><><><><><><> Reverse Speech - When Neil Armstrong said "That's one small step for man," his brain was thinking "Man will space walk," says the site's creator, who claims that the brain generates unconscious messages that can be heard by reversing a recording of normal speech. Dream Team Sports Match-Ups - Armchair athletes annoyed at skewed Super Bowl or play-off matches can do it their way at What If Sports, where users match up competitors they select themselves. Red Flags - Red Flags raises the flag on issues the public ought to be paying a bit more attention to, reading behind the headlines and listening past the sound-bites on medical, scientific, environmental, artistic and political issues. Cool Chemistry Movies - The creative types at the Journal of Chemical Education deliver 16 films of dramatic chemical reactions, from the colors of elements in a flame to the classic nitrous acid test. MouseSite - It was the mouse that roared, and it's hard to believe that the least peripheral of all peripherals -- the invaluable computer mouse -- has been around since 1968. Desktop Adventures - Couch potatoes can ease into action at Adventure TV, where visitors virtually experience wildlife, indigenous cultures and worldwide adventure gathered from broadcast media around the globe. Biographies R Us - The material is a snap to use: searchable by name, category or life span, each biography includes a chronology, achievements, contributions, famous quotations and a picture. Information Retrieval - At Info Retrieve, professionals get help digesting their ever-expanding fields of knowledge. SHORT
TAKES: Gum Wrapper Chains - Almost 8 miles long, made of over 940,000 gum wrappers, and costing more than $65,000 in gum to produce, the gum wrapper chain created by Gary Duschl is a world record-holder. Yeti@Home - Yeti@Home shows idle web surfers how to convert their computer's idle time into a Bigfoot/Yeti/Creepy Crawler camera system for detecting and capturing an image of unidentified creatures who go bump in the dark. <><><><><><><><> Women Who Rock - Welcome to the Club, the online version of the PBS documentary, puts the four women on center stage, along with their sometimes raunchy, always aggressive, vocal and personal styles. Techniques of Wildlife Painting - Visitors learn principles of balance, contrast, movement and proportion for putting nature on canvas. New Web Pick - Representing the choices of the site creators and fans of outstanding designs in artistic expression, the portfolios here are geared to art lovers who crave graphic image and sound rather than ease of delivery or broad appeal. Life
Magazine: Cover Search
- Search
all covers from 1936 to 1972, the years when Life was published as a Book-A-Minute - Those who have already multi-tasked themselves out of their book group may find a solution at Book-A-Minute, where readers can digest an entire season of Oprah picks on your lunch break. Brain Explorer - The three-pound organ responsible for pleasure and pain, joy and grief, brilliance and madness is examined at Brain Explorer created by the Lundbeck Institute. The Love Motel - Expect to spend time clicking through a series of experimental web scripts as you're lured into discovering how to control, maneuver - and sometimes just stop - the inverting and extruding bars, lines and orbs that populate the screen. Weird New Jersey - Two New Jerseyans deliver a travel guide to the weird, odd and unique backroads of the Garden State to unearth its historical and modern lore. SHORT
TAKES: The Official Ninja Webpage - The creator of the Official Ninja Webpage is extremely hooked, especially on the way ninjas have Real Ultimate Power and will cut your head right off, but also on the costumes, the weapons and the moves. Sky Chart - Simulates a naked-eye view of the sky from any place on Earth, any time day or night, on any date from 1600 to 2400 AD. <><><><><><><><> The Net Wits - A gathering of over 160 Internet humorists committed "to end world grimness.". The Fruit of Bitter Lemons: Israelis and Palestinians - Both Israeli and Palestinian viewpoints on the conflict and the peace process are presented by two writers who know the score, Ghassan Khatib, a Palestinian, and Yossi Alpher, an Israeli. JCPenney Catalog Fall/Winter 1980 - Why the fascination with the 1980 JC Penney Catalog? 1980 may be only two decades past, but it feels like serious time travel. Reading A to Z - A resource offering all the materials needed to teach a child to read, available 24/7, without delays, shipping or waiting. Country Reports - Select a country from the pull-down menu of 200-plus nations, click and wait a few seconds while the basics are delivered to you: economy, defense, geography, government, people, national anthem, flag, map and the daily weather report.
Human Anatomy Online - Created by MyHealthScore.com, the site makes learning easy by using the simple logic of point-and-click to guide visitors around and inside human anatomy. Go To My PC - Go To My PC will be your super hero by letting you access your computer from any other Internet-connected computer through a secure, private connection. Digital, Visual and Habitual - Two Fifty takes its name from the collection of 250 x 250 pixel digital art, self-submitted by artists who maintain their own ever-changing galleries on the site. SHORT
TAKES: Did You Feel It? - The US Geological Survey lets everyone check earthquake activity in all 50 states by offering and soliciting ground-shaking info via a color-coded rating system of each quake's magnitude. Oxymoron List - Microsoft Works is the cynical favorite topping the Oxymoron List, a compilation of incongruous or contradictory phrases that make you go, "Hmmm, I get it". <><><><><><><><> Prehistoric Petting Zoo - Try being a paleontologist by recreating extinct animals from fossil evidence - like completing a giant jigsaw puzzle without all the pieces. PopCult Magazine - There's lots more at Pop Cult Magazine, an e-zine dedicated not just to celebrities, movies and TV shows, but to the real deal: the history and creators of the weird stuff we all get hooked on, however briefly. Old Computer Museum - The site traces personal computers from their introduction in 1973 with the Micral, the first microprocessor-based computer, to the PCW 16 in 1994. Yiddish Radio Project - The online version of NPR's documentary series about the golden days of Yiddish radio. Crossovers and Spin-offs - Connect the dots at Crossovers and Spin-offs, devoted to tracing the Genesis-like relationships of TV shows that shared the same weird reality at some point. Philosophical Wagers - Intended to stimulate discussion about weighty social and scientific matters, visitors to the site offer $1,000-minimum bets on questions that may take anywhere from 5 to 8,000 years to resolve. Becoming Human - At Becoming Human, the Institute for Human Origins sifts through the evidence of our vast universal family tree. Corporate Anthems - IBM is in da house, along with other rapmasters of corporate imaging making at ZDNet's Top 20 IT Anthems, a celebration of rockin' tunes from the hip-hop world of information technology. SHORT
TAKES: Religion By the Numbers - Desperate to know many Quakers live in Indiana or what percentage of the world is Buddhist? Adherents holds the answers. The Paula Principle - Pity poor Chester Foster, popular candidate for President of the United States. <><><><><><><><> Phrenicea: Chronicling The Future - In 50 years, reading and writing will be extinct along with cars, jets and banks if the folks at Phrenicea are right. Misunderstood Minds - Misunderstood Minds, a companion site to the PBS special, profiles learning problems to help parents and teachers help kids for whom basic learning is a puzzle. Bringing Down a Dictator - Avivid multimedia account of how the Serbs used ridicule, music, the Internet and civil disobedience to take out the man responsible for millions of deaths and years of suffering. Harry Benson: 50 Years in Pictures - "Every time you'd know what the best spot is, who shows up in that spot? Harry Benson." That's how fellow photographers describe the man who has been photojournalism's Zelig for half a century. Bob Hope Exhibit - Far from dead, vaudeville is revived and revered by memories of and about the 20,000 performers who worked the boards in the 1920s. Piano Graphique - The interactive Wave site lets users finger their own keyboard to play sophisticated music with orchestral effects or rap scratching. Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts - At Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts, scholars and the public can view the saints, fabulous animals and themes of civilization depicted in these glorious works. No Rules Street Photography - Forget the rules, all who enter here. Non-photography, says Nitsa, is about energy without concern for excellence, about making pictures free of filters, lenses and f-stop calculations. SHORT
TAKES: Etiquette Hell - Rude behavior is a competitive playing field these days, and top players are honored at Etiquette Hell. Needlepoint Museum - A homespun version of string theory -- that needlepoint is an astonishing thing -- is proven at The Needlepoint Museum. <><><><><><><><> Museum of Talking Boards - The Museum of Talking Boards traces the history of the Ouija board from 1890 to 1950. Sail Away - When the Volvo Ocean Race, which started in England in September 2001, ends in Germany in June 2002, teams will have covered 32,700 nautical miles, circumnavigating the globe and racing through four oceans. Hubble: A View to the Edge of Space - Visitors can see what the astronomers see in space, peer inside life at Mission Control, view stunning color photos, see how NASA's image processors transform raw data to create the images. Cooking: Italian Style - Recipes from Almond Cake to Zucchini Loaf are organized by cookbook and ingredient. The food section leaps way beyond pasta to include spices, honey, even truffles. If Walls Could Talk - One house, five families, 200 years of history are detailed at The Smithsonian's Within These Walls, telling in words, photos and music the story of a Massachusetts house through the families who called it home.
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