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The Big Picture section of the Boston Globe's Boston.com offers truly awesome high resolution photographs from the news, mostly drawn ...

The Library of Congress' National Jukebox makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. As it began operati...

The Panorama of the City of New York is the jewel in the crown of the collection of the Queens Museum of Art . Built by Robert Moses for...

The Johnny Cash Project is a global collective art project. Working with a single image as a template, and using a custom drawing tool, visi...

100 years of photographs of New York City's subway system from the morgue at the New York Times .

John Muir (1838-1914) was America's most famous and influential naturalist and conservationist, and founder of the Sierra Club . The Jo...

The National Philatelic Collection was established at the Smithsonian in 1886 with the donation of a sheet of 10-cent Confederate postage s...

Maps, maps & more maps: Links to World Subway and Other Transportation Information Resources .

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Letters of Note: Correspondence deserving a wider audience "is an attempt to gather and sort fascinating letters, postcards, telegrams...

Three experts believe we need to update the way we think about modern transportation -- particularly the automobile. William Mitchell , Chri...

Four Children's Gizmos That Inspired Scientific Breakthroughs (Scientific American 2010-03-24) Advances in science and technology can...

If you're in L.A., take any opportunity to visit the Getty. Getty from Bill Petropoulos on Vimeo .

Is this the greatest video ever?

Visual Evidence of Mass Murder at Auschwitz-Birkenau:

How much life can you find in one cubic foot? That's a hunk of ecosystem small enough to fit in your lap. To answer the question, phot...

The Incredible San Fancisco Artists' Soapbox Derby, 1975. from Mike Haeg on Vimeo .

After hovering over Mount Everest and the gorges that plunge to the Ganges, you are pulled through the Earth’s atmosphere to glimpse the ink...

PolitiFact has compiled more than 500 promises that Barack Obama made during the campaign and is tracking their progress on the Obameter. ...

"Artist, alchemical filmmaker, musical archeologist and avant garde shaman, Harry Smith ’s obsessive interests made him an influential,...

Nadine Jarvin is a product designer. One of her projects involves rethinking how we approach death. In Carbon Copies , for example, penci...

Erodes at the rate of 45 feet a year Jaymi Heimbuch writes on Treehugger : With less ice cover during the summers to protect the shore fro...

On Elements of Humanity , the editors of Make magazine present interviews with great minds working in science and technology that ask what ...

Drug-resistant bacteria kills, even in top hospitals. But now tough infections like staph and anthrax may be in for a surprise. Nobel-winnin...

A fine source of Twainiana: Quotations, newspaper archives and related resources, collected by Barbara Schmidt , featuring graphics and phot...

The ultimate site for cartography geeks, Strange Maps has a seemingly endless collection of historical, speculative, analytical and inform...

At The Cloud Appreciation Society , they love clouds, and they’re not embarrassed to admit it. Read their manifesto and see how they'...

SnagFilms offers a wide variety of documentaries online, well-known documentaries like Super Size Me and lesser- known but interesting far...

Web scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will use the World Wide Web to compile and share scientific data on an unprecedented scal...

Beau Lotto's color games puzzle your vision, but they also spotlight what you can't normally see: how your brain works. This fun, fi...

Hundreds of thousands of Holocaust-related documents are now searchable online through an agreement between the National Archives and Record...

Presented at The Center for Inquiry / Transnational in Amherst, NY (2008-09-12): Search for the Chimera , A Lecture by James "The Amaz...

Here's a hot documentary on chile peppers and fiery foods from New Mexico State University, written, co-produced, and hosted by Dave DeW...

How many hangovers were aggravated by Scopitone ? And where are Bobby Vee and Joey Dee when you need them?

A man, a helicopter and a digital camera = the California Coastal Records Project , a 10,000 image aerial photographic survey of the entire ...

Bob Newhart: Unscripted

High resolution files are available for download directly from the NASAimages.org website. The improved download features offer a choice ...

How to Understand and Use the Nutrition Facts Label The Nutrition Facts Panel - An Overview The Serving Size Calories (and Calories from F...

The Hubble Space Telescope is a research tool dedicated to scientific studies of nature. Enroute to illuminating the forces shaping our cosm...

"The medieval and Renaissance collections at the [Victoria and Albert Museum] have many objects that reveal the lives of women. Ranging...

A near-universal plaint concerns the sufferings inflicted on humanity by bureaucracies. Seemingly, all civilized peoples in all times have ...

Scientists at UC San Diego's California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology have equipped a robot modeled after...

From the website: AdViews is a digital archive of thousands of vintage television commercials dating from the 1950s to the 1980s. These com...

WorldCat call itself the world's largest network of library content and services. Linked to libraries that are committed to providing a...

Lest we forget:

"Since the days of radical printer-pamphleteers, design and designers have a long history of fighting for what’s right and working to t...

WaterCar's Python Edition ( YouTube )

Al Seckel, a cognitive neuroscientist, explores the perceptual illusions that fool our brains. Loads of eye tricks help him prove that not o...

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This illustrated history of rocking chairs from Designboom covers origins ("We all know that the rocking chair is a distinctly America...

The material collected by The Architectural League of New York about architecture and urban development for five cities around the world, i...

"Cognitive Daily reports nearly every day on fascinating peer-reviewed developments in cognition from the most respected scientists in ...

SurveyLA from the L.A. Department of City Planning's Office of Historic Preservation, "Los Angeles' first-ever comprehensive p...

Eye Project , a branding site for KDDI , the Japanese telcom, uses a new server-side video generating system to create original ideas for di...

"This web site deals with any and all aspects of the general topic "animals in the Middle Ages", though there is an emphasis...

Except for hypochondriacs, who might be prone to abuse it, WebMD's Symptom Checker is a useful tool: "Need information as you dete...

The Internet Pinball Machine Database , also known as the IPD or IPDB and originally compiled as part of the Pinball Pasture site in the mid...

A company in New Jersey will house your online radio show for free, making it available live and as podcasts. Just phone it in. " BlogT...

Former Random House editor Daniel Menaker is the host of Titlepage.TV , a new online talk show about books and writers. In the first episod...

The website for Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, the national park that "stretches for hundreds of miles from Lees Ferry in Arizon...

I previously recommended Jott in conjunction with Xpenser , but Mosio , when integrated with Jott, brings you just a little bit closer to t...

The World Awheel , from the Lilly Library, Indiana University Bloomington Libraries, of images of cycling-themed books, features cycling in ...

" WonderHowTo.com is a community-fueled search engine and directory for Free How-To Video. With an index of more than 100,000 videos (...

The animated history of evil in western civilization from Ancient Greece the to present day: YouTube >

Walkit is a website that promotes the power of walking as a healthy way to get around urban areas. The UK-based site helps people make more...

War is, um, messy: AtomFilms.com : Funny Videos | Funny Cartoons | Comedy Central http://www.atomfilms.com >

Tchochkes by Shira Abel Shvo is a showcase for ideas about "interior design - furniture construction, fabrics, hinges, handles, floori...

Superest The rules: Artist 1 draws a character with a power. Artist 2 then draws a character whose power cancels the power of that previous ...

Here's a site that may be a sign of the times: Hillbilly Housewife features "low-cost, home-cooking from scratch. The recipes are ...

"LitLovers...An online community dedicated to books and book clubs -- because both enrich our lives. We've got great resources to e...

Absolutely brilliant -- and funny -- performance piece: http://www.youtube.com/ >

This exhibition about the American Revolution is drawn from "the deep and diverse holdings of early American prints and drawings in Th...

"This full-motion, live-streaming webcam is located near Old Faithful Geyser and brings online visitors views of several other geysers...

Japander is the place to go to see what American celebrities will stoop to (the Kiefer Sutherland videos alone are worth the trip) when th...

"A masterful documentary it cracks on at a tremendous pace. A subject that at first seems too ridiculous to contemplate leaves you nodd...

Created by the New Museum, New York, NY, "Get Lost is a collective portrait of downtown New York. Twenty-one international artists were...

Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas , an exhibition "traces the graphic art made by Emory Douglas while he worked as ...

There may be no practical purpose for this app showing you -- on a world map and in almost real time -- who is editing what Wikipedia entri...

Bill Kirchen is the former lead guitarist of Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen , best known for Hot Rod Lincoln and Down to Seeds ...

From Jerry Jazz Musician , "a website devoted to jazz and American civilization," comes this 2005 interview with Michael Dregni , ...

" Earideas is a collection of the best thoughtful audio available on the web...shows from public and other broadcasters, magazines, ne...

Star Wars re-edited using James Earl Jones ' voice from other movies:

Artisan Flavored Sea Salts "By itself, salt is one of the oldest and most crucial minerals to human life. At Saltistry, salt is elevat...

The Cultural Gutter "is updated Thursday at noon with a new article about an artistic pursuit generally considered to be beneath consi...

I think too many of us, me included, are lazily coming to depend too much on Wikipedia , even though there are other, as easy to use, but mu...

"There's something extremely satisfying about a hot, bubbling pot of soup on the stove on a cold winter's night," says Si...

globalEdge , a business information portal designed by MSU, provides links to news, industry profiles, and diagnostic tools to aid business ...

When he died in 1944, Norwegian Expressionist artist Edvard Munch bequeathed the works still in his possession to Munch Museet in Oslo, N...

Sharpbrains -- "our mission is to provide individuals, companies and institutions with the best science-based information and guidance...

I know I've touted Sharon Jones before but I plan to keep it up until her name is as familiar as Aretha 's or Madonna 's. Sha-r...

And here is a swell map from the Church of Latter Day Saints depicting the organization's growth since 1830: Google Video

Darren Berkovitz and his partners were experiencing a familiar problem: too much to do and not enough time to do it. Somehow, though, they ...

Along the lines of Million Dollar Homepage in the “are you kidding me?” department, Wants For Sale illustrators Justin and Christine creat...

A crucial new addition to our political dialogue: Islamic Law In Our Times - A Realistic Assessment of Islamic Law in Today's World by ...

A really cool exhibit at the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive: You may not know his name, but you've seen his work.... Woody Woodpecker...

With the arrival of the Balloon Resource Center , "a new window to the industry for all Balloon Professionals...[to] stay up to date wi...

Fitting that there is something called the Pablo Picasso: Official Web Site . The artist, known for his style-a-minute development of cubism...

Sooner or later, global warming and overpopulation will force even faint-hearted Americans to turn to entomophagy , that is, to eating bugs ...

These sites about Benjamin Banneker , born on November 9, 1731, in Ellicott's Mills, Maryland, a largely self-taught African American ...

The National Farm Toy Museum in Dyersville, Iowa "features thousands of toys and exhibits....Tractors, implements, trucks, miniature f...

The Guardian , the British newspaper, collects news articles about recent natural disasters around the world on its website. Highlights incl...

" The Working Class Studies Association aims to develop and promote multiple forms of scholarship, teaching, and activism related to w...

The next time you make the mind-numbing run between and L.A. and the Bay Area on the I-5, the information on this website for Tejon Ranch , ...

In this BBC documentary, David Malone profiles four mathematicians -- Georg Cantor , Ludwig Boltzmann , Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing -- who...

Living With Mosses , by students and faculty at Oregon State, has the worthy goal of enhancing "public awareness of the effects and ben...

The tireless folks in the special collections department of the University of Virginia Library have assembled an exhibit of materials about ...

This unofficial fanzine about essayist and novelist Gore Vidal , by a journalism instructor at the University of Pittsburgh, has a brief bio...

At Amazon's free satellite site, Askville , you can ask any question on any topic and get real answers from real people who apparently h...

For current deals on a variety of products, go to SalesCircular , select your state, then pick a category of interest. Best to review this l...

George Lucas, eat your heart out: Flickr

If you're tired of digging out your phone whenever someone else's cell rings, you could buy a couple of commercially available ...

"Big Ideas for a Better World....For [Popular Mechanics] third annual innovation celebration, we honor...10 cutting-edge products....

The Kiwano (aka, the Horned Melon, melano, African horned cucumber, jelly melon, hedged gourd, or English tomato) is a fruit native to a re...

Here's a cool animated time-lapse map of the NYC subway system showing the order in which the lines were built. If you're a real tr...