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 [...]

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 [...]

BibliOdyssey captures the soul of the Americas.
Scott Carney drops in on the world’s last handwritten newspaper.
gmtPlus9(-15) visits the Museum of Japanese Anesthesia.
Moon River discovers scratch atlases for a proposed 1977 Atlas of North American Cultures.
Radical Cartography points to a map of all the ships in the ocean.
The American Newspaper Repository implores you to dance in [...]

Former Y-blogger Neal Ungerleider has a piece in this month’s Wired about boozy science nights at American bars.
I would like a drink with entomologist Justin O. Schmidt, creator of the Schmidt Sting Pain Index, courtesy of That’s How It Happened:

1.0 Sweat bee: Light, ephemeral, almost fruity. A tiny spark has singed a single hair [...]

Research Room panorama. Full version.
The New York Public Library as we know it today began with the merging of three private collections, those of James Lenox, John Jacob Astor and Samuel J. Tilden (hence the library’s official name: The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations). Since then many other fabulously wealthy [...]

From Petrus Apianus’ Astronomicum Caesareum (1540)
In case you missed it Friday, Maud Newton has the Metafiltered link of the day for rare-book fetishists and BibliOdyssey subscribers: The Rare Book Room offers hundreds of rare books in digital form via high-res photography. Octavo is the company behind the scanning. Almost anything in the religion category is [...]

Once upon a time, before my time, text files were the most interesting thing on the internet. You could learn how to program computers, blow things up, pick up girls, obtain free phone calls, survive nuclear war, pirate TV signals, perform witchcraft and conquer Zork in one short evening without leaving your bedroom. You could [...]

List of White Label Social Networking Platforms
Growing like Tom’s friend list.
10 Company Name Types on TechCrunch
Compound or blend?
Ning - Create Your Own Social Network for Anything
Now everyone create their own social network so we can build a social social-network network.
What the Web’s most popular sites are running on
Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP.
New York Gets Googled
Google’s [...]

New York, 1890. From How the Other Half Lives.
While doing some research for 92nd Street Y work, I walked right into the exploding world of museum podcasts. If you work for a museum and you don’t have a podcast, I discreetly suggest you get with it. Head for the Museum Podcast Directory.
But while I love [...]

It’s been too long since a New York magazine cover story got this kind of reaction. Video clips from a classic 1986 episode of Donahue:

Where’s Peter Blauner now, you ask? Busy.
UPDATE: If you want to read the original article, here’s the PDF.
UPDATE 2: Peter Blauner offers his take on the article and the show.

Athanasius Kircher’s handy diagram of the names of God
Florian Cramer’s Words Made Flesh is the tastiest thing I’ve found online all year. Pick a paragraph for nonstop fun with Pythagoras, Aleister Crowley, Catalan monks, proteic poetry, La Monte Young, Russian fairy tales, pataphysics, permutation tables and Borges. And computers.

Steve Wozniak with David Lee Roth: The Metal Years.
Q: What did Steve Wozniak say to the Pope?
A: “This is Henry Kissinger calling on behalf of President Richard Nixon at the summit in Moscow.”
Read more from Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak’s appearance at the 92nd Street Y last night. He’s not as quotable as Gore Vidal but [...]

Results of recent note-taking at 92Y events:
Gore Vidal: “The last time I sat on this stage, I was afflicted by a fly. An awful fly that kept buzzing around my head as I spoke [...] After a while, I realized the fly was the late Truman Capote.”
Gary Panter: “Paul [Reuben, aka Pee Wee Herman] and [...]

The Nietzsche Family Circus is the best cartoon remix since those randomized Garfield cartoons. Enjoy it before King Features crushes this dancing star.

I’ll let my brother take the credit for the invention of this drink, even though it was consumed en masse in NEW YORK last winter. Here’s to creative drinking and PR savvy, or as our dad puts it, “Irish bullshitting.”

Providence types may be interested in this set of shoddy cameraphone pics I just uploaded to Flickr. They were surreptitiously taken at the RISD Museum’s blow-out exhibition, WUNDERGROUND: Providence, 1995 to the present.
New York-based Providence types may be interested in the fact that tonight, October 10, Gary Panter and Matt Groening will be riffing off [...]

Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal Den Haag
The Nonist has some for free.