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.