Found on Lessig's blog, an explanation of Web 2.0.

On On the Media recently there was a discussion about video blogger lonelygirl15. Like so many YouTubers, she posts self-centered videos of her being silly and of her talking about life. But unlike most, she's probably a work of fiction, complete with a plot arc of sorts. What's fascinating is that if this is a work of fiction it exists in a medium ( Read more... )

From NPR's story-of-the-day podcast: http://oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com/

Over the course of a year, one Kyle MacDonald started with one red paperclip and traded up, item by item, to a house.

kitty_tape mentioned a fun little typing speed test. Note: if the text at the bottom turns read while you are typing, you made a typo that needs to be corrected.

http://calendar.google.com/

The other day I came across this amazing page of airplane videos. Sadly a number of the videos include fatal accidents, but most of them are just amazing ( Read more... )

From planet.gnome.org, 3D Sidewalk Chalk Art

For example,

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From a link off planet.gnome.org, a podcast: Betty in the Sky With a Suitcase! which chronicles stories of air travel from the point of view of a flight attendant. Episode 13 has an amazing first-hand account of ejection from an F-18.

magicpacket sent me these two fascinating links today (which he found by starting at this jwz entry.

First, an old jwz post about the process of fixing a high-voltage coaxial cable in LA using liquid nitrogen. This is particularly interesting to me since they are doing a similar repair two blocks away.

Second, Electricity Gone Wild including video of ( Read more... )

I heard this interesting segment from Weekend Edition Sunday: John Williams and the Music of ‘Star Wars’.