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≡ Category: Books | ≅ Leave a Comment
Miragebookmark has gathered some notable photos from unconventional bookstores around the globe. The collection takes you from Holland to Paris, Helsinki, and Porto (Portugal), then to San Francisco, Buenos Aires, Calcutta and beyond. Worth paying a visit.
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From The Chronicle of Higher Education’s “Wired Campus” Blog: “Cole W. Camplese, director of education-technology services at Pennsylvania State University at University Park, prefers to teach in classrooms with two screens — one to project his slides, and another to project a Twitter stream of notes from students. He knows he is inviting distraction — [...]
≡ Category: Web/Tech | ≅ 1 Comment
“Brewster Kahle wants to create a free, online collection of human knowledge. It sounds impossibly idealistic—but he is making progress.” More on Kahle’s mission here. via @Harvard_Press
≡ Category: Religion | ≅ 1 Comment
A good find by Kottke.org… Jared Diamond, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs & Steel (and Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed), offers a lecture at USC where he gets into the universal attributes of religions and their underlying adaptive value/social purpose. The talk runs about 41 minutes, followed by a long [...]
≡ Category: YouTube | ≅ Leave a Comment
The Library of Congress has just set up shop on YouTube. On this new channel, you’ll find some new and vintage footage. Above, we’re directing your attention to a clip called “Boxing Cats.” It’s from 1894 and was produced by Thomas Edison’s Black Maria film studio in West Orange, New Jersey. In no way do [...]
≡ Category: Music | ≅ Leave a Comment
CBGB’s was a longtime mecca of the New York music scene, a venue that helped launch the Ramones, Patti Smith, Blondie, and the Talking Heads onto the national stage. And then it closed in 2006. If you never visited the club on Bowery and Bleecker Streets, you can still take a pretty vivid virtual tour. [...]
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Last week, Bob Dylan released for a limited time a free mp3  (“Beyond Here Lies Nothin”) from his upcoming album, Together Through Life. Over at Newsweek, you’ll now find another cut being streamed —  ”Feel A Change Comin’ On.” Head on over and have a listen. via Stereogum
≡ Category: Film | ≅ Leave a Comment
Eggman913 on YouTube has a pretty neat schtick. He takes artistic images, then morphs them together in pretty creative ways.  The piece above plays with images of famous actresses from different moments in American film history. Eggman913 has also created a montage called Women in Art, which we’ve featured here before. (It has only 9.2 million views on YouTube.) [...]
≡ Category: Apple, iPhone, Stanford | ≅ 1 Comment
A quick heads up: Stanford has just launched a free software development course for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The lectures will be rolled out on iTunes first, and eventually they will be posted on YouTube as well. You can get the first lecture on iTunes here. This 10 week computer science course is officially [...]
≡ Category: Television | ≅ Leave a Comment
A light (and, for me, nostalgic) way to ease into the weekend… Over at Marvel.com, they’re streaming episodes from the original Spider-Man TV series that hit the airwaves back in 1967. A new episode will be posted every Thursday. Above, you’ll find Episode 1, and see where it all began.
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