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What does music look like? Conduct your own experiment. And see other people's images.

Pneumatic Anatomica

The future that never was: 1910 French prints show the year 2000. Charming.

A minor history of spheres

Global information
by artist Scanner, commissioned by a BBC news programme, is a sample and mashup of countries featured in the show.

How do you become a certified professional in plagiarizing nature? Of course, through a new two-year degree program in biomimicry at the Biomimicry Institute! Here is the link to
Biomimicry Institute - Certificate Program

Via Treehugger

The funniest web videos of 2007, according to New York magazine:

1 R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet

2 Clark and Michael

3 Wainy Days

4 Dramatic Chipmunk

5 Dave Hill

A short history of Boris Yeltsin, courtesy of YouTube:

Career retrospective of silliest moments:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMThTEA4M0o

Highlights from the dancing video (shortly before the quadruple bypass):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5FIoocja4k

Yeltsin drunk and Clinton laughing hysterically:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzXNXjbZafU

CNN on Yeltsin's death at 76 (including interview with Kasparov and Gorbachev):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYQtBo3zi_8

Baghdad Film Festival, anyone? Finding a venue may prove somewhat complicated though:

The Al-Mansour hotel, which hosted a festival of short films in 2005, has been ruled out of being a possible venue. It's after 12 people were killed in the hotel foyer in June after a suicide bomber attacked a meeting of tribal leaders.

Tired of buying expensive cookbooks that don't cater to your weird culinary taste? Order and print your own then at tastebook.com.Or at least, read about them in today's New York Times!