Good Morning Silicon Valley

Europeana, the European digital library, museum and archive; iSerenity, if you work better to the sounds of a waterfall, a heartbeat or a hairdryer (?); and do-it-yourself hallucinations using the Ganzfeld procedure.

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The official Monty Python channel on YouTube (introduced this way: “For 3 years you YouTubers have been ripping us off, taking tens of thousands of our videos and putting them on YouTube. Now the tables are turned. It’s time for us to take matters into our own hands. We know who you are, we know [...]

The Casual Collective; from Vanity Fair, “Thomas Kinkade’s 16 Guidelines for Making Stuff Suck“; and The End, a photo set on Flickr.

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51 Japanese Characters, Deskography, and IncrediBots.

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A couple of games for your weekend entertainment, Assembler and 99 Bricks, and That’s My Face, for facial analysis and FaceStatues.

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Sprint’s Plug Into Now page (and the less glitzy Worldometers), the visualizations of Nanobliss, and Soundsnap, for your sound effects needs. Also, happy World Usability Day.

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TroopTube, the DoD-approved video sharing site for military personnel; a Living Wage Calculator from Penn State’s Poverty in America Project; and Akinator, the Web Genius.

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One-Minute Languages, the British Cartoon Archive, and Power Moby-Dick, online and annotated.

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An experiment with Google Suggest, PopSci’s Best of What’s New 2008, and for writers who need some external discipline to get the words flowing, Write or Die from Dr. Wicked.

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Honda’s walking assist device, and the Strong Museum of Play, where the latest addition to the National Toy Hall of Fame is … the stick.

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Street With A View, Super Obama World, and from Mark Newman at the University of Michigan, some revealing cartographic versions of the election’s red-blue distribution.

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The One Velociraptor Per Child Project, and Zombie Baseball

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The Association of Equipment Managers extensive collections of pictorial warning signs for every sort of industrial danger you can imagine, and Time magazine’s picks for the 50 best inventions of the year, led by 23andMe’s retail DNA test.

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A visualization of wine flavors; Exactitudes, a photographic examination of group identities; and from the New Yorker, “Rock, Paper, Scissors: How we used to vote.”

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Music lovers might be inspired to come up with their own — Riff Offs: 10 Songs That Resemble Other Songs. And speaking of music: Top 10 songs from beyond the grave include songs by Tupac, Jimi Hendrix, Notorious B.I.G. released posthumously.

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