Aggregator Overload - Good Stuff - Some Explored - Some Not
Saturday, March 01, 2003High-speed bullets and high-speed photos.
Stunning gallery of very high-speed photos of bullets being fired through things. Link Discuss (Thanks, Brian!) [Boing Boing Blog]
The semantic web explained (without the agonizing pain): "A very neat, painless introduction to the Semantic Web (pdf), from Toronto-based Semaview." [thomas n. burg | randgänge] [Universal Rule]
Ipsos-Reid sez P2P doesn't hurt record sales. Ipsos-Reid has just completed a comprehensive study of music downloading, a study whose results put a lie to the recording industry's claims that P2P filesharing nets are harming their business. Check out this interview with an Ipsos-Reid research director:
* Over 50% of teenagers download music.Link Discuss (Thanks, Jim!) [Boing Boing Blog]* About two-thirds of teenage boys download music
* Surprisingly, teenagers are the most receptive demographic toward the concept of paying for online services.
* Surprisingly, downloaders appear to buy more CDs
Copyright Office posts anti-circumvention comments. The Copyright Office has posted the reply comments it received from hundreds of Americans, petitioning it to carve out exemptions to the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA, which makes it illegal to circumvent an access control system (like the region-coding on DVDs), even if the end-result (watching a movie offered for sale abroad) is legal. These are terriffic reading, and enumerate all the ways that Hollywood's favorite statute has abridged the freedoms of everyday Americans. Link Discuss (Thanks, Seth!) [Boing Boing Blog]
Here's another outstanding photography Web site....
American Photo Journalist [Ye Olde Phart]
Semi-Old London....
For some weird reason I don't seem to have blogged this before, but at least The Aardvark speaks has done so: London's Abandoned Tube Stations. Great anorak stuff, I love it.
And if you're about to visit London, have a look at Aardvark's shortcuts, they're brilliant. Last time I saw them mentioned was in a Bill Bryson novel. [The Cartoonist] [Ye Olde Phart]
Old England....
Multiple orgasms here: COLLAGE is an image database containing 20,000 works from the Guildhall Library and Guildhall Art Gallery London. Fantastic. Great. Fabulous.
View of the entrance to the Thames Tunnel at Wapping; the tunnel connected Wapping and Rotherhithe, and was the first underwater tunnel in the world. It was converted to a railway tunnel for the East London Railway in the 1860's
[The Cartoonist] [Ye Olde Phart]
Old London....
MOTCO is a database of London-related antique maps, prints and books, and certainly worth a look. In fact, it's fantastic.
PRINTS - REFERENCE DATABASE
The database now contains images of about 3,500 prints of London and Great Britain. These may be accessed via indexes of place names or by the original series in which they were published. We have just added 600 prints from the North Devon Athenaeum collection of William Rock's Topographical Vignettes 1845-1870 .
Why didn't I find this earlier? [The Cartoonist] [Ye Olde Phart]