Animal Art using the subway map of the London Underground. Very clever.
Myths about the developing world (Amazing graphics) This sounds boring, but is actually a very absorbing 20 minute lecture about how various countries and regions have been evolving economically for the last 40 odds years. The graphic interface is amazing, something they developed themselves, it tells the story better than any text can.
A funny IKEA ad
Here are three sites about discovering music. All share a common theme of telling them what you like or want to hear, and they figure out what else you might enjoy.
Music-Map: Give it an artist. It looks at what other artists people who like the one you chose like. (So if you enter The Who, it might suggest the White Stripes and MC5.)
Pandora: Similar to Music-Map, but will actually build (and play) and entire playlist based on your initial entry.
Musicovery: My new favorite. You suggest a genre, and a flavor of it on a matrix, and it shows (and plays) a bunch of songs in that area. I picked dark blues, and have become a big fan of JB Lenoir’s Alabama Blues, despite never having heard of the guy.
Steve Jobs, on the future of music and copyright
And finally a random joke that’s too good not to share:
Dear Abby:
My husband is a liar and a cheat. He has cheated on me from the beginning, and, when I confront him, he denies everything. What’s worse, everyone knows that he cheats on me. It is so humiliating. Also, since he lost his job six years ago, he hasn’t even looked for a new one. All he does all day is smoke cigars, cruise around and bullshit with his buddies while I have to work to pay the bills. Since our daughter went away to college he doesn’t even pretend to like me and hints that I may be a lesbian. What should I do?
Signed: Clueless
Dear Clueless:
Grow up and dump him. Good grief, woman. You don’t need him anymore. You’re a United States Senator from New York. Act like one.