A nice graphic that describes what happens when you hit publish.

A fun collection of graphs and charts inspired by rap songs here.

The flickr commons gives users the opportunity to tag and describe thousands of publicly-held photographs.

Flickr added a stats feature.

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Oscar Shumsky and Glenn Gould performing the Richard Strauss Violin Sonata Op. 18.

Just rediscovered newsmap.

Phoenix Hyperspace is a lightweight operating system that can bypass Microsoft Windows altogether and access often used programs web browsers and word processors, increasing computer boot times and responsiveness. From Wired.com:

Chipmakers and PC manufacturers have been trying to liberate themselves from lengthy startup times for a while, according to Hobbs, but the experience has been “controlled up in Seattle.” Indeed, Hobbs says Microsoft regards HyperSpace as “outside their sphere of influence,” and is not too happy with Phoenix’s offering, which adds yet another voice to the already loud chorus of voices complaining about operating-system bloat. Chipmakers and PC manufacturers, on the other hand, are thrilled.

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Heifetz performing Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso by Saint-Saens. From the film “They Shall Have Music.”

Previously: Ivry Gitlis Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso

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Tenor Jan Peerce and baritone Robert Merrill sing the famous duet “Le minaccie, i fieri accenti” from Verdi’s La Forza del Destino.

The Allen radio telescope array in Hat Creek, California will help scientists look for phenomena like black holes, dark galaxies and signals from extra-terrestrial life.

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Recording the Italian Concerto.

The Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York exhibit opens at the Municipal Art Society in NYC.

As an exhibition opening today at the Municipal Art Society reminds us, Jane Jacobs did not believe that planners could ever restore life to American cities. Instead she put her faith in the chaos of urban life, in diversity, in people — the grocery store owner, the young mother, the child playing in the street, the watchful busybodies leaning out of windows. Cities were at their best, she wrote, when the “ballet of the sidewalks” was evident, a dance that was intrinsically “spontaneous and untidy.” Her prescription was simply not to get in its way.

Read more about Jacobs and the exhibit at the NYTimes.

Graffiti Archaeology is a study of the changes made to graffiti covered surfaces over time.

The New Robot is an open source four legged robot being developed by the Technische Universität Darmstadt. The robot’s open development and programming platform lends itself to a variety of both hardware and software uses and variations.