Map a list

"a wizard for creating and managing customized google maps of address lists"

http://mapalist.com/

World’s Earliest SatNav

"Satellite navigation (SatNav) is a lot older than previously thought. In fact, it’s even decades older than man-made satellites themselves. This fantastic contraption, called the ‘Routefinder’, showed 1920s drivers in the UK the roads they were travelling down, gave them the mileage covered and told them to stop when they came at journey’s end."

http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/09/28/314-watch-the-road-worlds-earliest-satnav/

John Lennon interview infographic movie

"a beautiful "infographically" animated movie that illustrates a 1969 interview of John Lennon by a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan. armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, Jerry snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto & convinced him to do an interview about peace. using the original interview recording as the sole soundtrack, the movie titled "I Met the Walrus" suspends a visual narrative which tenderly romances Lennon's every word in a cascading flood of multipronged animation"

http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/08/john_lennon_conversation_infographic_movie.html

The semantic shifts of the Beatles' chords

"Every typical Beatles' song has at least one rather unconventional chord progression. Often there are more and sometimes the chord sequences even come close to endangering the songs' musical comprehensibility. There is, however, some kind of harmonic structure beneath these remarkable chord progressions, preventing this to happen. In the Beatles' songs each of the basic chords can be replaced by several other types of chords. Separated by minor third intervals, the tones of these stand-in chords show a diagonal relationship. This principle of diagonal substitution helps the listeners to understand the songs musically. Closer study of the early Beatles' songs reveals yet another point of support. In each song there is a tight relation between the clusters of these stand-in chords and the semantics of the lyrics. As the meaning of the words in a song does shift along two dimensions, the chords will shift along the same lines. This correlation between words and chords offers a flexible way to shift emotional meanings in conversational contexts."

http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/VOLUME03/Words_and_chords.shtml

ibm glass engine, infinity edition

"The IBM Glass Engine enables deep navigation of the music of Philip Glass. Personal interests, associations, and impulses guide the listener through an expanding selection of over sixty Glass works."

http://www.philipglass.com/glassengine/

Exif Viewer

http://regex.info/exif.cgi

Unnecessary knowledge

http://www.unkno.com/

SoundUnwound Wants to be Wikipedia for Music

"SoundUnwound, a new project from Amazon and IMDB, is part music store, part wiki, and designed to be the resource of choice for music fans and audiophiles looking for information on their favorite bands or artists. "

http://www.appscout.com/2008/09/soundunwound_wants_to_be_wikip.php

The Meaning of Liff

"In Life*, there are many hundreds of common experiences, feelings, situations and even objects which we all know and recognize, but for which no words exist. On the other hand, the world is littererd with thousands of spare words which spend their time doing nothing but loafing about on signposts pointing at places. Our job, as wee see it, is to get these words dow off the signposts and into the mouths of babes and sucklings and so on, where they can start earning their keep in everyday conversation and make a more positive contribution to society."

http://folk.uio.no/alied/TMoL.html

Europeana

"A new online encyclopedia of European culture, called "Europeana," is set to debut in November. It's a rival to the Google Library Project, but also something else -- the start of a vast digital backup copy of what's in Europe's libraries, museums and national film collections."

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,584823,00.html

True Brits - Brittonic Place-names

"The following list shows a selection of place-names listed under 70 headings, all of which are modern Welsh words, (although Cornish or Breton would have served equally well in most cases)."

http://www.truebrits.org/aberigine2.php

The joy of simply faffing around

"Faffing is completely harmless, whereas its opposite - dynamic, purposeful activity - is often very harmful. Faffers do not tend to kill people or make them work 12-hour days or sell them shoddy merchandise or lend them vast sums of money that they cannot pay back. In 1966, John Lennon memorably asked people to leave him alone because after all, he was only sleeping, and I urge the busybodies to do the same: after all, I'm only faffing."


http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/aug/13/7

Children are naturally prone to be empathic and moral

"Children between the ages of seven and 12 appear to be naturally inclined to feel empathy for others in pain, according to researchers who used functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) scans to study responses in children."

http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=1403

Dotmocracy

"Dotmocracy is an established facilitation method for collecting and prioritizing ideas among a large number of people.

It is an equal opportunity & participatory group decision-making process.

Participants write down ideas and apply dots under each idea to show which ones they prefer. The final result is a graph-like visual representation of the groups collective preferences."

http://www.dotmocracy.org/what_is