Best of the Internet - March 2008
This month's list of links is rather short due to me practically giving up my computer over spring break. But don't worry, the websites that are shown below are definitely worth a look!
Photos
-Aerial Pan - Photo/video company that specializes in getting shots via remote control helicoptor. Check out the 360* Quicktime VRs.
Video
-Common People - A live performance of a great song by William Shatner and Ben Folds. I found this after enjoying this Archie comic.
Informational
-Middle East History - A brief history about the Middle East, religions, and political/religious tensions.
-UN Data - Easily searchable statistics for a wide range of categories.
Photos
-Aerial Pan - Photo/video company that specializes in getting shots via remote control helicoptor. Check out the 360* Quicktime VRs.
Video
-Common People - A live performance of a great song by William Shatner and Ben Folds. I found this after enjoying this Archie comic.
Informational
-Middle East History - A brief history about the Middle East, religions, and political/religious tensions.
-UN Data - Easily searchable statistics for a wide range of categories.
-How to Speak Hip - I wasn't sure whether to put this under the 'informational' categorey or something else...but it's a vinyl conversion of a record entitled 'How To Speak Hip' and is awesome.
-Milk Gone Wild - Another awful PETA campaign. Maybe not as horrific as past ones like their holocaust ad, but this one definitely wins in the category of 'What's going on?'
Applications
-FireFTP-An in-browser FTP client for Firefox.
-Google Drive-Like a racing game. With no objective. On Google Maps.
-BookLamp-One of the best data gathering projects in recent times. Similar to Pandora, but with books. It looks for characteristics of books you enjoy (such as action, pace, tone, description level) and recommends other books you may like based on the similarities in characteristics. Currently their collection is really small, but I hope some company like Amazon picks this up and gives them the funding necessary to create something amazing. Watch the video at least to see how it works.
-Humans vs. Zombies-A great college game to play similar to Assassins but with much better organization, interaction, and more fun.
-Milk Gone Wild - Another awful PETA campaign. Maybe not as horrific as past ones like their holocaust ad, but this one definitely wins in the category of 'What's going on?'
Applications
-FireFTP-An in-browser FTP client for Firefox.
-Google Drive-Like a racing game. With no objective. On Google Maps.
-BookLamp-One of the best data gathering projects in recent times. Similar to Pandora, but with books. It looks for characteristics of books you enjoy (such as action, pace, tone, description level) and recommends other books you may like based on the similarities in characteristics. Currently their collection is really small, but I hope some company like Amazon picks this up and gives them the funding necessary to create something amazing. Watch the video at least to see how it works.
-Humans vs. Zombies-A great college game to play similar to Assassins but with much better organization, interaction, and more fun.
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