A Wired article talking the importance of Chrome.

Visualizing Cultures was launched at MIT in 2002 to explore the potential of the Web for developing innovative image-driven scholarship and learning.

The Digital Scriptorium is an image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research.

A brilliant mini-lecture on how and why we use free time. This is one of the more brilliant things I have seen online in years.

"First, let’s correct a false assumption that often undermines this kind of historical exploration: it does not involve living in the past, in involves living through the past."

RETROBASE.NET features the greatest and most complete databases for classic videogames with screenshots and release details that can be found on the Internet.

In 1958, Ezra Pound, after being released from a mental hospital, became a foreign correspondent for the Richmond News Leader. All but one of his dispatches were deemed unprintable by the editor and the one that was printed ran as a letter to the editor.

The advent of cellphones may, in the end, be no more relevant than the ability of laptops to change our written documents into ones using cool new fonts. But then it's hard to imagine the current boom in procedural crime dramas without the cellphone. Cell

The future of the internet a la 1994