Lest they disappear into the ether forever… here are some repurposed “best of” bits from recent tweets via @theoccasional.
- A salute to the vanishing jargon of the print newspaper.
- Watch out for the sea monsters near Iceland! Unusual and Marvelous Maps.
- Hear voices from 1860! The first sound recordings.
- Terry Teachout and the New York Times spar on the future of Jazz (or lack therof).
- An *amazing* dynamic map of the NYC subways: tracks ridership system-wide and by station over 100 years.
- Islamic calligraphy and manuscripts are incredibly beautiful (you can view them on flickr, or even download copies from Issuu! ) [@walters_museum]
- Some very lovely and/or interesting arts and culture blogs up for the Dazed Raw Blog Awards.
- Does it have to be experimental to be Art?
- Just stunning… what happened when we used the Hubble telescope to peer into the deepest void of space.
- White Tiger author Aravind Adiga [@aravindadiga - one of many twittering writers] pointed out a review of Amartya Sen’s new book. It sounds sounds like an interesting pairing with Michael Sandel’s Justice (which I heard described as “wisdom literature for the age of Obama” at BookExpoAmerica).
