Open Culture Beat No. 7: The Best Culture Links of the Week

What cul­tur­al good­ies did we tweet (and re-tweet) on our Twit­ter stream dur­ing the past week? Here are some high­lights. Fol­low us on Twit­ter at @openculture … or Like us on Face­book. We’ll keep you plugged in…

• Barcelona 1908: A tram ride shows the old city and its main streets back in the day. Watch above or here.
• Astronomers Find Largest, Most Dis­tant Reser­voir of Water. Equiv­a­lent to 140 tril­lion times all the water in the world’s oceans.
• A Clock­work Orange: The Musi­cal. That’s right, a musi­cal based on Antho­ny Burgess’ nov­el is com­ing to the UK soon.
• Cor­rect­ed Page Proof of Vir­ginia Woolf’s To the Light­house. From the Smith Col­lege Archives. Image.
• Blitz Britain: Amaz­ing col­or pic­tures of Lon­don under siege dur­ing World War II.
• Fidel Cas­tro Talks about His Ide­ol­o­gy in 1959. Inter­view con­duct­ed in Eng­lish.
• Her­man Melville’s Life­time Lit­er­ary Earn­ings. Prob­a­bly not bad if you adjust for infla­tion.
• The Auteur Is Dead, Says Jean-Luc Godard. The future is cut-and-paste movie mashups.
• British Pathé Archive: A col­lec­tion of over 90,000 clips from Pathé news­reels and cin­emagazines, shown in British cin­e­mas from 1910 until 1970.
• Lady Gaga and Just a Stein­way. Less can be more.
• Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty Library’s Exten­sive Selec­tion of Web-Acces­si­ble Col­lec­tions. From Chi­nese Art to Musi­cal Scores to Daguerreo­types. Find them here.
• Tom Wolfe on Mar­shall McLuhan for his 100th Would-Be Birth­day.
• Ail­ing Hugo Chavez finds inspi­ra­tion in Niet­zsche’s Zarathus­tra.
• FSI Lan­guage Cours­es: Lan­guage cours­es devel­oped by the For­eign Ser­vice Insti­tute. Now online and added to our col­lec­tion Learn Lan­guages for Free: Span­ish, Eng­lish, Chi­nese & 37 Oth­er Lan­guages
• Wired Mag­a­zine Arti­cles as a free spo­ken-word pod­casts.
• Watch Free Films from Mel­bourne Inter­na­tion­al Film Fest. Includes Tiger Award win­ner Fin­is­ter­rae.
• The Dude’s Abode: Big Lebows­ki House for Sale.
• 2Cellos (Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser) per­form Michael Jack­son’s Smooth Crim­i­nal.
• Rupert Mur­doch-Detec­tor Brows­er Add-Ons warn you when you’re read­ing Mur­doch-taint­ed news.
• Sum­mer Read­ing Lists from UC Berke­ley, 1985–2011.
• Was Thomas Edi­son the First Trav­el Film­mak­er? Mata­dor TV makes the case.
• Why Does Time Fly? Big enchi­la­da ques­tion explained by Sci­en­tif­ic Amer­i­can.
• His­to­ri­an David McCul­lough looks at French Influ­ence on Amer­i­ca. Video and Op-Ed.
• Mark Twain’s whim­si­cal ‘Advice to Lit­tle Girls,’ wicked­ly illus­trat­ed by Vladimir Radun­sky.

Sources: @coudal,  @kottke,  @philosophybites,  @maudnewton,  @eugenephoto,  @courosa, @matthiasrascher,  @BrainPicker.