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• maps : Who's Your City? by Richard Florida
  Richard Florida's fantastic maps track everything from what cities have the most singles to which ones have the most introverted individuals. I especially like the "Mega Regions of NA," which leads to such names as "Char-lanta" and "Tor-Buff-chester."
  (tags: maps reference visualization culture society)

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• What I Can Tell You About Seattle Based on the People I've Met Who Are From There
  LIVING IN SEATTLE HAS A "REFRESHING" EFFECT ON WHAT BOOKS PEOPLE WRITE Currently I write short books about depressed people experiencing problems with human relationships while "fighting" "various things" like "meaninglessness" and "despair...."
  (tags: seattle humor the_stranger media literary)

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• Tim Robbins: The Power and Responsibility of our Nation's Broadcasters - Politics on The Huffington Post
  Imagine a new broadcasting industry aesthetic, that respecting the better nature of the American people, produces shows that promote strength instead of fear. That does not divide, but inspires, that does not promote hate, but unity, that will not tear th
  (tags: media entertainment humor NAB tim_robbins culture criticism)

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• I Can Has Rezearch Papar? by Cyle Gage
  "I have chosen the lulz as my main subject because it encompasses not just internet memes and norms, but also the culture and history surrounding them. I have chosen it because it is purposefully ambiguous, like many of the cultural phenomena it is applie
  (tags: lolcats reference article culture pop_culture)
• With friends like these ... Tom Hodgkinson on the politics of the people behind Facebook | Technology | The Guardian
  "Facebook is a well-funded project, and the people behind the funding, a group of Silicon Valley venture capitalists, have a clearly thought out ideology that they are hoping to spread around the world. Facebook is one manifestation of this ideology."
  (tags: facebook sns news reference culture politics)

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• YouTube - You Suck at Photoshop #1
  one of the best, most useful, and funniest photoshop tutorial videos i've seen
  (tags: photoshop design tutorial video funny reference random)

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• Pitchfork's Top 100 Tracks of 2007: A Pie Chart
  "Songs by artists named after animals" and "Songs by Swedes" are my favorite
  (tags: music pop_culture pitchfork media funny hipster)

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• Last.fm community enables music research
  academic researchers + last.fm open api + listener tags = awesome!!
  (tags: tagging sns last.fm research academic)

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• New Social Sites Cater to People of a Certain Age - New York Times
  Social networking has so far focused mainly on businesspeople and young people because they are tech-savvy and are treasured by Madison Avenue. But there are 78 million boomers — roughly three times the number of teenagers — and most of them are Inte
  (tags: web2.0 boomers pop pop_culture sns)

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• Pitchfork Gives Music 6.8
  from the onion
  (tags: theonion pop_culture music funny pitchfork)

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• the "blog" of "unnecessary" quotation marks
  i "love" this blog. (funny how quotation marks always make one sound extra snarky.)
  (tags: blog grammar funny writing pop_culture)

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• YouTube - If YouTube Comments Met Real Life Situations
  So, soooooo true. Adult language, natch.
  (tags: you_tube comments pop_culture funny)

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• Up With Grups - The Ascendant Breed of Grown-Ups Who Are Redefining Adulthood -- New York Magazine
  Can we really expect to be cool parents and also raise cool kids? Is this youth big enough for the both of us?

  Or perhaps we can look forward—at least if Family Ties can be trusted—to a new generation of buttoned-down, high-strung Alex P. Keaton–

  
  
  (tags: grownupswhodon'tgrowup culture indie parenting pop_culture trends)
  
  

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• CRITICAL METRICS
  fantastic music aggregator that makes it easy to find new music
  (tags: mp3 music web2.0)

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• YouTube - Keepon Dancing to Spoon
  robot dances to "turn my camera on" - great song, hilarious to watch a peep-like robot get down
  (tags: you_tube dancing spoon robot memes)

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• YouTube - Crazy Logic Arty Fufkin Mashup
  Another fantastic mashup - this time it's Gnarls Barkley + The Who + Supertramp + Rockwell
  (tags: mashup you_tube music)

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• Paul Anka: Smells Like Teen Spirit
  OMFG - my eyes! My ears! Ack! Kurt Cobain must be rolling around in his grave.
  (tags: nirvana covers paul_anka)

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• Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe - Reality TV Editing
  a great youtube clip from a bbc show about reality tv editing - good stuff, especially if you're teaching a class about media messages
  (tags: media you_tube teaching_resources reality_tv editing)

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• GodTube.com - "Baby Got Back."
  I'm not sure what to say. Wow.
  (tags: parody mashup sir-mix-a-lot video christian bizarre)
• Choose Your Own Adventure Books That Never Quite Made It
  as the title suggests - some of these didn't make the cut. some of these shouldn't have made the somethingawful cut either.
  (tags: choose_your_own_adventure books humor)

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• The Trailer Mash » Little Miss Sunshine
  Little Miss Sunshine remixed as a horror film. Brilliant.
  (tags: mashup film trailers funny)

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• YouTube - Abercrombie Dance Party - Fun Without Consumption
  sweet dance party at abercrombie - too bad they called security
  (tags: culturejamming consumption you_tube)
• Arcade Fire - One Very, Very Indie Band
  Can you really be considered "indie" if they do a profile about your band in the NYT magazine?
  (tags: arcade_fire music nyt indie)

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• My Death Space :: Radar Online
  The MyDeathspace forums in particular provide an eerie artifact unique to the Internet age—a brutally honest public record of young people's preoccupation with death, there for the living to pore over once the poster is gone.
  (tags: cyberculture myspace death creepy sns)

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• YouTube - musicCDmusic
  experimental piece - music only made with physical CDs (not the music therein)
  (tags: music you_tube ambient experimental)

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• Community WiFi Cafe Hotspots
  like it says - google maps mashup to find wifi spots
  (tags: wifi mashup hotspots web2.0)

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• Toothpaste For Dinner Second Life review
  Perhaps the best review of SL ever. "It is like Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, except you can't shoot anyone, and you can't hit people. You just walk around...You have to use your credit card, with real money, to buy fake money."
  (tags: second_life cyberculture technology games funny)
• DailyTech - Wii Invades Retirement Home
  “I've never been into video games, but this is addictive,” said 72-year-old Flora Dierbach.
  (tags: wii videogames cyberculture)

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• YouTube - Kylie v Tone Loc
  great mashup of "can't get you out of my head" and "wild thing"
  (tags: music mashup kylie toneloc you_tube)
• From Borat to Mammy: The top ten stereotypes in cinema history
  I'm sure some others could be added to this list...suggestions?
  (tags: movies media politics stereotypes pop_culture)

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• Study: Surgeons who play video games more skilled - CNN.com
  "Video game skills translated into higher scores on a day-and-half-long surgical skills test, and the correlation was much higher than the surgeon's length of training or prior experience in laparoscopic surgery, the study said."
  (tags: video_games technology education cnn news)

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• eBay: VELVET PAINTING of KARL ROVE, Rove On Black Velvet (item 260087363320 end time Feb-25-07 04:53:03 PST)
  i must have this...
  (tags: bizarre weird random velvet art "karl rove" politics ebay)

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• Death and Taxes: A Visual Guide to Where Your Federal Tax Dollars Go
  stunning infographic/poster that shows how screwed up our budgetary priorities are....
  (tags: infographics government usa politics budget)

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• RETOUCHE PHOTO RETOUCHING
  dramatic examples of the power of photo retouching, and why we have such screwed up and unrealistic views of what "beauty" is in this culture
  (tags: design photography photos retouching beauty)

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• Media That Matters Film Festival: A Girl Like Me
  the horrors of internalized oppression are clearly illustrated in this documentary from a high school filmmaker
  (tags: race media documentary)

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• The State of the Union in Words: A Look at the 34,000 State of the Union Words Delivered of George W. Bush - New York Times
  nice flash graphic of the state of the union over time - wish he actually said something that i agreed with, but oh well
  (tags: politics visualization gwb nyt)

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• Putting the Annual Cost of War in Perspective
  once again, i am awed by both (1) the absolute ridiculous amounts of money we're spending on a pointless war and (2) the NYT's awesome graphic designers
  (tags: infographics war nyt news design visualization)

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• The Tissue Culture & Art Project
  I have two simultaneous reactions to this: "Cool!" and "Eww!"
  (tags: art technology biotech ethics)

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• NYTimes.com | Dance of the Continents - New York Times
  check out pangea ultima - exciting news for geo nerds like myself
  (tags: infographics nyt geology)
• How to Make a Folded-Paper CD Case » Curbly | DIY Design Community
  brilliant biodegradable design for cds
  (tags: design diy howto reference CD)

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• A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
  like it says - actually, a really interesting listing (with examples) of different info vis diagrams
  (tags: infographics reference information visualization design)

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• Rejected Wii Games - Bubblare.se
  potentially interesting games for the Wii that were rejected...
  (tags: wii nintendo games videogames videos)

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• Breathing Earth
  watch the world's CO(2) use in real-time
  (tags: maps environment visualization reference infographics)

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• World's richest 1% own 40% of all wealth, UN report discovers
  - 50% of world's adults own just 1% of the wealth - 1% of the world's adults own 50% of the wealth - Sigh.
  (tags: inequity news united_nations wealth poverty)
• Wordie
  flickr without the photos - i'm not sure if this is working for me or not..
  (tags: words writing flickr_like web2.0ish)

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• Have Camera Phone? Yahoo and Reuters Want You to Work for Their News Service - New York Times
  Starting tomorrow, users will be able to upload photos and videos to a section of Yahoo called You Witness News (news.yahoo.com/page/youwitnessnews). All of the submissions will appear on Flickr or a similar site for video.
  (tags: technology mobile citizen_journalism media news nyt)
• Indie Collective
  indie shops for holiday gift-giving goodness...if you're so inclined, that is.
  (tags: gifts shopping indie diy design inspiration)

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• CHI 2007 Reach Beyond | submit >> trends >> workshops-participants
  absolutely fab workshops happening at chi 2007 - too many for me to decide between! i especially like the sound of the "exploring design as a research activity" and the "supporting design studio culture in HCI" workshops.
  (tags: design chi conference cfp to_apply technology hci)
• iA Web Design Links
  linkus majorus

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• A Police Shooting - New York Times
  great infographic that describes a shooting in queens, ny
  (tags: news infographics design)

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• Rock for Children - Music - Report - New York Times
  "We’re undergoing a change in what it means to be a traditional parent,” said Mr. Salem. “But I read somewhere that the fastest way to turn your kid into a Republican is to dress him up in a Sex Pistols T-shirt. That’s probably true.”
  (tags: music kids hipster parenting nyt memes)
• Wii Video Game System - Review - New York Times
  Instead, the Wii (pronounced “we,” not “why”) is about rescuing gaming from the clutches of the hard-core young male demographic that has dominated the industry’s thinking for years. It is about making video games accessible again ...
  (tags: wii technology accessibility fun videogames)
• MY PENGUIN: BOOKS BY THE GREATS, COVERS BY YOU
  seriously, this is a fantastic marketing ploy
  (tags: art inspiration books design photos)

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• BuzzFeed
  meme tracking from the eyebeam folks
  (tags: memes buzz blogs trends)

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• Robert Altman, Iconoclastic Director, Dies at 81 - New York Times
  I'm so sad. Altman is one of my favorite contemporary directors - he's challenging and provocative. "The Player" has an amazing opening shot (directly influenced by Orson Wells' "A Touch of Evil") that I may have to watch again just to honor the man.
  (tags: news death altman film pop_culture)
• UntitledMedia: a survey of New Media Art
  In response to the ongoing debate by mainstream art establishments, contemporary art theorists, practitioners and the art going communit - to define what constitutes a New Media Art practice - Untitled Media is an attempt to document and categorise exampl
  (tags: infographics art design inspiration survey visualization)

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• BBC NEWS | Technology | Physics promises wireless power
  Solving the age-old power problem, perhaps?
  (tags: news technology physics energy wireless)

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• Clearification
  this is a great and totally random flash site for demetri martin
  (tags: flash design inspiration funny)

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• BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Big Brother enters virtual world
  And they say that the virtual world is NOTHING like "reality" - so, how come it keeps reproducing all of the bad parts?
  (tags: games second_life reality_tv technology)
• 2006 Election Results: U.S. House - New York Times
  Brilliant infographic about the election results that shows, once again, that the NYT has some of the best information designers working for them.
  (tags: design inspiration nyt news politics elections infographics)

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• Court TV has creepy "whisper" campaign - New York Post
  "Hey you, over here. Don't turn around," the voice warns. "Can you hear me? Do you ever think about murder, committing the ultimate crime?" - Court TV has installed the sound devices, dubbed the "mystery whisperer," in a number of bookstores to promote it
  (tags: news creepy advertising court_tv)

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