The History of the Internet in 8 Minutes

We have here a short, catchy ani­mat­ed doc­u­men­tary that explains how we get from the 1950s to the inter­net that we know and love today. Along the way, it cov­ers inven­tions rang­ing from time-shar­ing to file­shar­ing, from Arpanet to Inter­net. Have a look…

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Stanford Online Writing Courses — The Winter Lineup

A quick fyi: If you made a New Year’s res­o­lu­tion to become a seri­ous writer, then you might be inter­est­ed in these online writ­ing cours­es offered by Stan­ford Con­tin­u­ing Stud­ies (which, caveat emp­tor, I help over­see) and Stan­ford’s Cre­ative Writ­ing Pro­gram. These online cours­es give begin­ning and advanced writ­ers, no mat­ter where they live, the chance to refine their craft with gift­ed writ­ing instruc­tors. Class­es start next week. Unfor­tu­nate­ly some are already full … and they are not free. For more infor­ma­tion, click here, or sep­a­rate­ly check out the FAQ. And, if you live in the San Fran­cis­co Bay Area, feel free to look through the cours­es tak­ing place on the Stan­ford cam­pus.

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Bugs Bunny in The Big Snooze (1946)

On the lighter side for a sleepy Sun­day .…

“The Big Snooze” (1946) was the last car­toon that ani­ma­tion direc­tor Bob Clam­pett ever worked on for Warn­er Broth­ers. The title? It’s an obvi­ous play on the Ray­mond Chan­dler nov­el, The Big Sleep, which was also turned into a film (star­ring Bog­a­rt and Bacall) in 1946. And the sleep­ing pill scene? Well, it was cen­sored on tele­vi­sion for some time. The clip can oth­er­wise be bought on The Looney Tunes Gold­en Col­lec­tion. For now, here it goes.

The Ten Best Classical Music Recordings of 2008

Alex Ross, the New York­er music crit­ic who recent­ly won a MacArthur Genius grant and pub­lished The Rest is Noise, a wide­ly praised work that makes sense of 20th cen­tu­ry clas­si­cal music, lists his favorite clas­si­cal music record­ings of 2008.

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Steven Spielberg Admits Swallowing a Transistor to Andy Warhol and Bianca Jagger

In 1979, Andy Warhol spent $40,000 on a broad­cast-qual­i­ty cam­era and start­ed dab­bling in cre­at­ing tele­vi­sion pro­grams that he aired on Man­hat­tan pub­lic access cable chan­nels. (Get more on the sto­ry here.) One episode fea­tured Warhol, Bian­ca Jag­ger and Steven Spiel­berg sim­ply hang­ing out on a bed. And here’s how their con­ver­sa­tion went down:

via Boing­Bo­ing

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Top 10 Blog Posts of 2008

Here they go, the most pop­u­lar posts of 2008:

10. Free Stan­ford Com­put­er Sci­ence & Engi­neer­ing Cours­es Now Online

9.) The Old Man and the Sea Ani­mat­ed

8.) Teach­ing on YouTube

7.) Turn Your iPod into a Trav­el Guide: 20 Trav­el Pod­casts

7.) Lis­ten­ing to Famous Poets Read­ing Their Own Work

6. This Amer­i­can Life Demys­ti­fies the Housing/Credit Cri­sis

5.) Under­stand­ing Mod­ern Physics: Down­load Leonard Susskind Video Lec­tures

4.) Yale Open Cours­es: The New Line­up

3.) George Orwell’s 1984: Down­load Free Audio Book Ver­sion

Also, James Joyce’s Ulysses: A Free Audio­book

2.) Top Five Col­lec­tions of Free Uni­ver­si­ty Cours­es

1.) Intel­li­gent Life at YouTube: 80 Edu­ca­tion­al Video Col­lec­tions

 

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