Smart Links

Here are some links that our kind read­ers sent our way this week. Enjoy:

• Be Jack­son Pol­lock: A fun lit­tle site. Start with a blank can­vas, swirl your mouse around, click to change col­ors, and see if can paint like Pol­lock.

• Bril­liant Ideas in Every­day Lan­guage:
  • FORA.tv puts out a great col­lec­tion of videos fea­tur­ing promi­nent thinkers and news­mak­ers. Some recent talks worth check­ing out include:
    • The now famous Al Sharpton/Christopher Hitchens debate
    • The Future of Music: Dig­i­tal
      Rights or Wrongs?
    • What Will it Take to Win in 2008?
    • Founder and CEO of Sec­ond Life speaks at the Long Now Foun­da­tion.
• More For­eign Lan­guage Les­son Pod­casts: In response to our pod­cast col­lec­tion that was fea­tured on Life­hack­er this week, some read­ers made us aware of pod­casts that we did­n’t know about. These pod­casts cov­er:
  • Chi­nese (Can­tonese)
  • Japan­ese
  • Latin
  • Swahili
• More Music Blogs: Ear­li­er this week we put out a col­lec­tion of 25 top music blogs. Mike Smith, who writes the Noth­ing But Green Lights blog, rec­om­mend­ed we add a few more good ones, and we did. Here they are:
  • Goril­la vs. Bear
  • Marathon Packs
  • Motel De Moka
  • Music for Robots

  See our big list of cul­ture blogs.

• Sundry Pod­casts Worth Check­ing Out:
  • Ask the Techies  iTunes  Feed  Web Site
    • A week­ly tech video pod­cast explain­ing the lat­est in cool tech­nol­o­gy from iPods to Pho­to­shop. You can now find it in our list of Tech­nol­o­gy Pod­casts.
  • Clas­si­cal Greek Mythol­o­gy  Feed  Site
    • A pod­cast that will teach you all about Greek mythol­o­gy. Just as an fyi, more mate­r­i­al will be added this sum­mer. So watch it grow.
  • iino­vate: iTunes  Feed  Web Site
    • Fea­tures
      Stan­ford stu­dents lead­ing inter­views with entre­pre­neurs, ven­ture
      cap­i­tal­ists, and inno­va­tors. The lat­est clip includes a talk with Car­ly
      Fio­r­i­na, the for­mer head of HP. For more relat­ed pod­casts, see our
      col­lec­tion of col­lec­tion of b‑school pod­casts.
  • Slack­er Astron­o­my:  iTunes  Feed  Web Site
  • Lots of slack­ing and astron­o­my, plus some new mate­r­i­al on cos­mol­o­gy. Now includ­ed in our Sci­ence Pod­cast Col­lec­tion.