Archive for April, 2007
Better Living Through Wikipedia
1 Comment Published April 25th, 2007, 1:34am in 92Y, Curiosities, Lists, New York.Because Wikipedia never stops enlightening me, and because Citizendium (the “elitist, anti net-cultural counter-project to Wikipedia,” as summed up by Florian Cramer) never stops boring me, I thought I’d post an annotated list of recent Wikipedia contrails. None of the following items can be found on Citizendium, and I’m not about to apply for the [...]
Work, travel and ironing have been consuming potential updates to this site but the 92nd Street Y summer season is now live. Go buy yourself an art class.
I’m also pleased to report that the New York Society of Association Executives just awarded us with the 2007 CyberSpace Award for 92Y.org in the donor category. Previous [...]
Math Blog of the Day: The Narrow Road
2 Comments Published April 6th, 2007, 12:14am in Curiosities, Ideas.Hey, Sesame Street tried.
Up til now my math-blog reading has been limited to Scott Aaronson’s Shtetl-Optimized (entertaining) and BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen’s LiveJournal (always glad to help). But Leland McInnes’ The Narrow Road is the kind of math blog you can sit down and have a drink with, because the posts are long and you [...]
Joyce Images: Ulysses in postcards
Philip K. Dick Book Cover Gallery [via Total Dick-Head]
Art Fag City rounds up the New York net art galleries.
Gallery of named graphs
Soviet poster heaven
Pixelator: Battling boring light criticism.
Scribd, the Y Combinator-backed “YouTube for documents” I and many others first blogged about a month ago, appears to be holding strong traffic-wise. Content-wise, it’s still largely a wasteland of crappy ebooks, but there are a few documents of interest buried amid the rubble. Here’s the best of what I’ve been able to find so [...]


