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- Erich Remarque
David Byrne has a fascinating article in Wired about the changing face of the music industry. He really illuminates new distribution channels and illustrates how the legacy record companies are too big and will be crushed under their own weight.
There’s a bonus interview with Brian Eno that is well worth a listen.
One of the most [...]
OMG this is cool. Looks like most of O’Reilly’s blogs have a reader built in (through the ReadSpeaker service). The voice is understandable, and if you don’t like the embedded player, you can download MP3s for portability. Apparently this has been online since at least April 2007, and it’s still being perfected; [...]
I was surprised when I tried locating some Israeli cities for a history course and noticed that Google Maps is noticeably lacking any info on Israel. Both Google Maps and Microsoft Live Maps know that Jaffa (formerly an ancient city and battle site of the Crusades) is now a neighborhood in Tel Aviv.
What Google Maps [...]
Yeah, Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis is being released as an animated film! Based on her graphic novels, Persepolis takes place in pre- and post-Shah Iran. It’s a very humanizing look at another part of the world. You realize, yet again, that people are the same all over.
NPR has a short audio segment on [...]
Here’s the dilemma: you’ve got a paper due, and you waited longer than you should have to gather sources. You need some additional resources but don’t have time to wait for library holds to come in. Sometimes having a source to cite is all you need. This works really well if you have a quote [...]
Maps of War has an awesome animated map of empires over the ages. As the title says, it’s “5000 years of history in 90 seconds.” Very cool. If you haven’t looked at Maps of War, I highly recommend it.
This map of religious expansion is amazing as well.