chris @ August 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Fleshmap: Listen: Music
Body part frequency of occurrence by popular music genre, graphically displayed. With drill-down for each genre. Now that's an idea!
(tags: words visualisation music design sex statistics)
Personen / Infos zu Name - Personen-Suchmaschine yasni
German people search engine. Quite impressive results — including phone book entries, Amazon wishlists and lots more identifying information.
(tags: yasni web […]
chris @ August 25, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The Evolution of Pre-Launch Gmail In Screenshots
Very interesting insight into the successive stages of a UI design.
(tags: usability ui google ux web2.0 webdesign)
Today @ PC World Note to Seinfeld: Beware, Microsoft's Made Some Bad TV Ads
Incredible how ads age. Embarrassing and funny.
(tags: tv microsoft marketing funny advertising)
Clay Sanskrit Library
Similar to the Loeb Classical Library, this […]
chris @ August 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Flickr: Import EXIF GPS information from your camera
Flickr supports now automatic import of GPS info in exif tags. Not that my camera had GPS … yet.
(tags: metadata photography mapping gps geotagging photos flickr)
chris @ August 11, 2008 # No Comment Yet
THE ORWELL PRIZE
George Orwell's diaries exactly 70 years after they were written, starting Aug 9, 2008. A retroblog using WordPress.
(tags: writing literature blogging books uk politics)
chris @ August 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
YouTube - Michael Wesch: An anthropological introduction to YouTube
Michael Wesch speaks at the US Library of Congress — not just a fantastic touching presentation, but I feel also captures something important about what the web is changing in how we live and interact.
(tags: web media video internet culture youtube wesch)
chris @ August 1, 2008 # One Comment
LibraryThing APIs - WikiThing
Lovely stuff. You could easily build a lookup of book translations thusly.
(tags: LibraryThing library books api)
Top 100 Language Blogs - Lexiophiles
(tags: language blogging blog)
Index Translationum: UNESCO Culture Sector
Database of book translations. Uses transliteration into the Latin alphabet (+diacritics).
(tags: reference literature database books translations)