Category: Daily Links

via languagehat. An enjoyable lecture about dictionaries and lexicography.

via MAKE ‘… the synchronization of hundreds or thousands of fireflies. First they flash randomly but after some time and influencing each other, they flash in sync. This circuit simulates fireflies with small microcontrollers.’

‘so detroit came up […] and i remembered these youtubes […] they aired on a local program called the new dance show. these ones were my faves – everything about them is awesome, the music, the fashion, the dancing, it’s all great.’

Found in the related vids from that late 80s/early 90s Detroit dance show.

More Detroit YouTubey goodness.

‘before-and-after landscape illustrations of Humphry Repton, the prolific and influential English landscape designer of the 18th and 19th centuries’. Turn the flap to see the new garden.

Scratching with tape decks. Pointless but kind of impressive.

Everyone’s been posting links to this thing and I resisted for a few days, but I have to admit it’s pretty astonishing.

Hot gypsy music at Excavated Shellac: ‘Recorded in 1927 in Belgrade, Steva Nikolič’s brilliant violin playing and the murky, sonorous backup accompaniment are haunting in a way that other “gypsy orchestra” records are not, in my listening experienc

About Abu Ghraib.

‘Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation is a shot-for-shot remake that two Mississippi kids made over the course of eight years in the 1980s… Here’s the first ten minutes.’