Just cleaning out some of my older bookmarks. Too useful to junk completely, but maybe not useful enough to keep contributing to the clutter. It might be a good idea to post some of them here because the blog makes for a good archive. And maybe some of you would find some of this stuff useful or entertaining. The trend here is towards creativity and the arts, although not entirely so. These are listed roughly in some order:
- (link) 3-minute TED talk of Richard St. John’s 8 secrets of success.
- (link) Pcmag.com’s best 100 websites of 2009.
- (link) Wonderful short video: The Eight Irresistable Principles of Fun.
- (link) The math-art Whitney Music Boxes, plus other links (try me)
- (link) A repository of art available for $20.
- (link) The 1000 Awesome Things blog. I get the daily emails.
- (link) Daily collection of free recommendations of must-see gems.
- (link) Rolling Stone’s list of greatest albums(, songs, & guitarists).
- (link) Greg Rutter’s List of 99 Things You Should Have Already Seen.
- (link) The Zoomquilt II collaborative art project.
- (link) Gregory Colbert’s Ashes and Snow – art with animals.
- (link) Sarina Brewer’s Custom Creature Studio (warning: dark)
- (link) Matt Glass Photography.
- (link) A partial history of color in art by the Museum of Modern Art.
- (link) Moshcam. Recorded concerts available online.
- (link) Travel like a human – rent rooms from real people worldwide.
- (link) World of Inspiration: inspirational quotes
- (link) Color scheme designer application.
- (link) Yanko Design – dedicated to modern international design.
- (link) Stories from everyday people from NPR’s Tony Kahn.
- (link) Garfield Minus Garfield.
- (link) A planetarium in your web browser.
- (link) Chart of “books that make you dumb”.
- (link) The baby name wizard – tracking names through time.
- (link) A full advertising database online.
- (link) Scott Wade’s Dirty Car Art.
- (link) What to get her for Christmas? Maybe The Thing in a Jar?
- (link) Fun, simple interactive art. More here and here.
- (link) An unusual multimedia brainstorming tool by Getty Images.
- (link) Artist David Shrigley.
- (link) Simple little piece of interactive art.
- (link) The Muppet Wiki.
- (link) Ultra-condensed classic books.
- (link) Explanations of physics concepts using flash animation.
- (link) What’s special about this number? (Is this math art?)
- (link) Article featuring socially-conscious pixellated artworks.
- (link) A web-book to substitute for an art history textbook.
- (link) Keith Tyson is a British artist. His web design is notably good.
- (link) Birmingham artist Paul Cordes Wilm.
- (link) Entertainment Weekly’s best 100 books from 1983-2008.
- (link) The annotated Watchmen.
- (link) Possibly unclassifiable piece of moving art.