Cory Doctorow: Paul sez, “For years Deutsche Welle, Germany’s government-run international shortwave radio station, has been broadcasting German language lessons in English, for their worldwide audience. Now, the audio lessons are available for download from their website, along with the accompanying text (pdf). It appears to be quite comprehensive, too. I’d love to see other […]
Xeni Jardin: BB reader Jeff Gates sez: Smithsonian Global Sound is to world music what iTunes is to popular music. Just like iTunes, each song is 99 cents. You can search in the normal way (by text string) But you can also browse by geographic location, instrument, and cultural group (which is pretty cool). And, […]
[Jessica Helfand:] The idea of social networking has always made me uneasy. To begin with, I’m not terribly social, and I don’t exactly thrill to the idea of networking, either at bars or across an ethernet. I was never a big fan of collaborative filtering — the idea that just because I bought a cookbook […]
Located in Cincinnati The American Sign Museum will have its Grand Opening in April 2005. The website has lots of great pictures and information on topics from Big Boy sculptures, to some of the great sign painters of their day. … Via core77.com’s design blog
Xeni Jardin: Barney Stephens says, The Duchess of Northumberland’s controversial poison garden has been officially opened. Cannabis, opium poppies, magic mushrooms and coca – the source of cocaine – all feature at the centuries-old Alnwick Garden. Link Via Boing Boing
Over the President’s Day weekend, Jeff and I went up to New York, primarily to visit MoMA and to see The Gates, Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s art installation in Central Park. I’m horribly late in writing it up, so I’ll start by just cribbing from Jeff’s posted bullets: Saturday: lunch with Tina and RK [ed. note: […]
elfintech posted a photo: Aspen, one of Sheldon and Gretchyn’s three cats, captured from a safe distance away thanks to the new 300mm telephoto.
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elfintech posted a photo: Carnegie Hall, taken from a table inside the Cafe Europa
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