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"In June of this year, The New York Times unveiled a major redesign of their Sunday magazine, the first in almost a decade, and one of only a handful ever in its more than 100 years."
The BBC internet team details ongoing efforts to redesign the BBC's many presences on the web to work better, and better together.
"The history of recorded music in Chicago during the 20th century was broad and deep, traversing sonic areas both familiar and unknown."
"This Web Museum is established for the purpose of educating the general public, and the next generation, on the beauties of wood types and engraved blocks. Our mission is to gather, save, preserve, and interpret wood types and information about them."
"Download our atlas of the Universe and the free Partiview software and begin flying around the Galaxy at home."
Discusses new advances in neuroscience, which imply that language is understood using larger portions of the brain than previously thought.
Full featured archive of information on setting up your own low-powered fm station.
"How much life could you find in one cubic foot? That's a hunk of ecosystem small enough to fit in your lap."
Can this please become a standard unit of volumetric measure?
"The idea that we live in a hologram probably sounds absurd, but it is a natural extension of our best understanding of black holes, and something with a pretty firm theoretical footing. It has also been surprisingly helpful for physicists wrestling with theories of how the universe works at its most fundamental level."
Latter day triumph of Plato?
Podcast of historical oddities in short bursts.
Ubu has been tweeting additions to their own archives as well as avant garde music/knowledge finds elsewhere on the web.
The Helicopters are Coming.
"Since there can be no written contract, the sale of a Sehgal piece must be conducted orally, with a lawyer or a notary public on hand to witness it. The work is described; the right to install it for an unspecified number of times under the supervision of Sehgal or one of his representatives is stipulated; and the price is stated. The buyer agrees to certain restrictions, perhaps the most important being the ban on future documentation, which extends to any subsequent transfers of ownership. 'If the work gets resold, it has to be done in the same way it was acquired originally,' says Jan Mot, who is Sehgal’s dealer in Brussels. 'If it is not done according to the conditions of the first sale, one could debate whether it was an authentic sale. It’s like making a false Tino Sehgal, if you start making documentation and a certificate.'"
"The high frequencies of the popping and cracking noises are transmitted faster by the ice than the deeper frequencies, which reach the listener with a time lag as glissandi sinking to almost bottomless depths."
New York Times Magazine Ts
"Inspired by both grotesque and humanist models, it's clean and prudent with an warm, friendly tone."
