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Ticklebooth’s Best Online Videos of 2006
Comprehensive list of the best videos found online the past year. Categories include: music videos, live-actiion short, animated short, abstrac short, virals, docs, ads, comedy and whole list of Ticklebooth's categories.
Our focus for the list and in Ticklebooth in general is to post videos that had something to say and/or were exceptionally creative in some way. This is NOT another viral video blog.
posted by Ajit AP at 10:10 AM on January 8, 2007
Comprehensive list of the best videos found online the past year. Categories include: music videos, live-actiion short, animated short, abstrac short, virals, docs, ads, comedy and whole list of Ticklebooth's categories.
Our focus for the list and in Ticklebooth in general is to post videos that had something to say and/or were exceptionally creative in some way. This is NOT another viral video blog.
posted by Ajit AP at 10:10 AM on January 8, 2007
On This Day Pre-Y2K
In conjunction with my recently released novel about Y2K anxiety, I'm maintaining this retroblog. It offers a small daily dose of the doomsaying about the Y2K bug that was circulating online last millennium, from today's date in 1999. There are also some notes on the sources of the material and a glossary of jargon frequently used by the "Y2K-aware."
posted by staggernation at 10:56 AM on January 9, 2007
In conjunction with my recently released novel about Y2K anxiety, I'm maintaining this retroblog. It offers a small daily dose of the doomsaying about the Y2K bug that was circulating online last millennium, from today's date in 1999. There are also some notes on the sources of the material and a glossary of jargon frequently used by the "Y2K-aware."
posted by staggernation at 10:56 AM on January 9, 2007
Richmond Sunlight
I've found that Virginians have a tough time keeping with what our General Assembly is doing. The legislature has a website, one of the best of its type in the nation, but it's not particularly great by normal website standards. So I've built a website to let people track the legislature and use all of the normal whizzy internet goodies that one expects: tag clouds, comments, trackbacks, etc. The result is a website that makes it easy and even fun to keep up with and get involved with the Virginia General Assembly.
posted by waldo at 10:56 AM on January 9, 2007
I've found that Virginians have a tough time keeping with what our General Assembly is doing. The legislature has a website, one of the best of its type in the nation, but it's not particularly great by normal website standards. So I've built a website to let people track the legislature and use all of the normal whizzy internet goodies that one expects: tag clouds, comments, trackbacks, etc. The result is a website that makes it easy and even fun to keep up with and get involved with the Virginia General Assembly.
posted by waldo at 10:56 AM on January 9, 2007
Sketching a Spider-Man Toy
I don't know if this qualifies as a project, but I bought a Spider-Man toy with "67 points of articulation" to see if you can make good sketches from it. I added the results to the Cover Browser labs... along with a link to an eBay search for this toy if you want to buy one yourself...
posted by philipp at 4:06 PM on January 3, 2007
I don't know if this qualifies as a project, but I bought a Spider-Man toy with "67 points of articulation" to see if you can make good sketches from it. I added the results to the Cover Browser labs... along with a link to an eBay search for this toy if you want to buy one yourself...
posted by philipp at 4:06 PM on January 3, 2007
Font Image Generator
I was looking for a way to have absolute control of fonts on web pages and started playing around with font images via PHP. I threw in a few goodies like drag-drop positioning, layers, justification, clipart upload, etc and the result is Font Image Generator. Its fun to play with and handy for bloggers and webmasters too. Comments and suggestions welcome.
posted by jorlando at 12:05 AM on January 6, 2007
I was looking for a way to have absolute control of fonts on web pages and started playing around with font images via PHP. I threw in a few goodies like drag-drop positioning, layers, justification, clipart upload, etc and the result is Font Image Generator. Its fun to play with and handy for bloggers and webmasters too. Comments and suggestions welcome.
posted by jorlando at 12:05 AM on January 6, 2007
A Year in Comics
I'm drawing a page of comics once a day for the rest of the year. Most of them so far are autobiographical—things that have happened to me on that particular day. They're somewhat crude, but the quality is guaranteed to improve. They're also viewable as this Flickr set. Comics are usually posted late in the day, because I don't manage my time well.
posted by interrobang at 11:56 AM on January 6, 2007
I'm drawing a page of comics once a day for the rest of the year. Most of them so far are autobiographical—things that have happened to me on that particular day. They're somewhat crude, but the quality is guaranteed to improve. They're also viewable as this Flickr set. Comics are usually posted late in the day, because I don't manage my time well.
posted by interrobang at 11:56 AM on January 6, 2007
what to eat Boston - GMaps-based restaurant directory and ratings
what to eat Boston is a *new* GMaps-based restaurant directory and ratings system, which allows you to rate restaurants in terms of Food, Service, Atmosphere, and value, as well as leave comments about your experience. The site aims to fill a gap between premium (subscription-based) restaurant ratings services and free services, which generally only offer a single overall rating. Currently we have data on many restaurants in Cambridge, MA, organized by square, and we are adding more content, as well as other levels of organization, continuously. Please try it out by rating a restaurant or adding a new restaurant to the database and, most importantly, let us know what you think. Thanks!
posted by underdetermined at 2:56 PM on January 6, 2007
what to eat Boston is a *new* GMaps-based restaurant directory and ratings system, which allows you to rate restaurants in terms of Food, Service, Atmosphere, and value, as well as leave comments about your experience. The site aims to fill a gap between premium (subscription-based) restaurant ratings services and free services, which generally only offer a single overall rating. Currently we have data on many restaurants in Cambridge, MA, organized by square, and we are adding more content, as well as other levels of organization, continuously. Please try it out by rating a restaurant or adding a new restaurant to the database and, most importantly, let us know what you think. Thanks!
posted by underdetermined at 2:56 PM on January 6, 2007
Doggerel Weekly
Reprinting all 20 issues of an email-based magazine of naughty poems, limericks, epitaphs, an essays published by yours truly in the year 2000. Also on hand are later essays about such despised poetic forms as drinking songs and chatushkis.
posted by Astro Zombie at 11:32 PM on January 7, 2007
Reprinting all 20 issues of an email-based magazine of naughty poems, limericks, epitaphs, an essays published by yours truly in the year 2000. Also on hand are later essays about such despised poetic forms as drinking songs and chatushkis.
posted by Astro Zombie at 11:32 PM on January 7, 2007
A Screenplay a Week
Towards the end of 2006, life was almost hunkydory. Things have since changed and the project is likely doomed. Nevertheless, I shall persevere and try to complete what I started. (A test of motivation if anything else.)
A screenplay a week -- in whole, in part, in some shape or form -- for the whole of 2007.
posted by popcassady at 10:32 AM on January 7, 2007
Towards the end of 2006, life was almost hunkydory. Things have since changed and the project is likely doomed. Nevertheless, I shall persevere and try to complete what I started. (A test of motivation if anything else.)
A screenplay a week -- in whole, in part, in some shape or form -- for the whole of 2007.
posted by popcassady at 10:32 AM on January 7, 2007
Black Dahlia 60th Anniversary Lost Weekend
Sixty years ago next week, an obscure yet lovely young woman named Elizabeth Short became the first and most grisly victim in a series of unsolved woman killings that terrorized post-war L.A. Her bisected body, abandoned in a trash-strewn field in Leimert Park, became the obsession and inspiration for thousands of cops, true crime fanatics, visual artists, writers and filmmakers. From January 11-16, the anniversary of Elizabeth Short's captivity and murder, downtown L.A. will host a series of startling events inspired by the crime and its eternally fascinating victim, including screenings, art exhibitions, readings, live cabaret and Crime Bus tours.
posted by Scram at 10:56 AM on January 9, 2007
Sixty years ago next week, an obscure yet lovely young woman named Elizabeth Short became the first and most grisly victim in a series of unsolved woman killings that terrorized post-war L.A. Her bisected body, abandoned in a trash-strewn field in Leimert Park, became the obsession and inspiration for thousands of cops, true crime fanatics, visual artists, writers and filmmakers. From January 11-16, the anniversary of Elizabeth Short's captivity and murder, downtown L.A. will host a series of startling events inspired by the crime and its eternally fascinating victim, including screenings, art exhibitions, readings, live cabaret and Crime Bus tours.
posted by Scram at 10:56 AM on January 9, 2007
How I'm Benefiting the Artists of New Orleans
Over the course of the past four years, I've been touring the country and diving into the world of photography. I've driven enough miles now that I have figuratively circumnavigated the world at the equator. I'm on my third camera, and funny enough, my third car. The end result is the creation of a series of books called "Distance Til Empty", 8 volumes of books filled with photography from around the country, and even a few from Canada. I'm very proud of this achievement. Very proud. However, that being said, I'm proudest of one particular volume...
Volume VI of Distance Til Empty focuses on Louisiana. My travels in the swamps, my exploration into other cultures, and a few trips into New Orleans. As a matter of fact, I've been there before and after the Hurricane, and I've seen how the city has been forever altered. I've seen what it's done to the people and the culture, and more precisely, I've seen what it's done to the art world down there.
Therefore, since NOLA has given me so much in terms of inspiration over the years, I'm paying her back. All proceeds from Volume VI will be donated to the visual artists of New Orleans.
So if you end up picking up a copy of this book, you're not just doing it for one artist, you're doing it for a city of artists. It's not very often that doing so little can do so much for so many.
posted by jcterminal at 5:05 PM on January 20, 2007
Over the course of the past four years, I've been touring the country and diving into the world of photography. I've driven enough miles now that I have figuratively circumnavigated the world at the equator. I'm on my third camera, and funny enough, my third car. The end result is the creation of a series of books called "Distance Til Empty", 8 volumes of books filled with photography from around the country, and even a few from Canada. I'm very proud of this achievement. Very proud. However, that being said, I'm proudest of one particular volume...
Volume VI of Distance Til Empty focuses on Louisiana. My travels in the swamps, my exploration into other cultures, and a few trips into New Orleans. As a matter of fact, I've been there before and after the Hurricane, and I've seen how the city has been forever altered. I've seen what it's done to the people and the culture, and more precisely, I've seen what it's done to the art world down there.
Therefore, since NOLA has given me so much in terms of inspiration over the years, I'm paying her back. All proceeds from Volume VI will be donated to the visual artists of New Orleans.
So if you end up picking up a copy of this book, you're not just doing it for one artist, you're doing it for a city of artists. It's not very often that doing so little can do so much for so many.
posted by jcterminal at 5:05 PM on January 20, 2007
Get a First Life
My one-page satire site of Second Life, because I'm a little tired of all the hype. More on why I made it.
posted by dbarefoot at 12:17 PM on January 21, 2007
My one-page satire site of Second Life, because I'm a little tired of all the hype. More on why I made it.
posted by dbarefoot at 12:17 PM on January 21, 2007
Wrestle the Future To The Fucking Ground Daily
I've entered into an agreement with a friend: I'll email a new written piece to my mailing list each day and she'll write and record a new song by the end of each Friday. The songs will be archived (updated on Saturdays); the writing will not. We made the agreement a week and a half ago so there are two songs up already.
posted by dobbs at 2:47 PM on January 3, 2007
I've entered into an agreement with a friend: I'll email a new written piece to my mailing list each day and she'll write and record a new song by the end of each Friday. The songs will be archived (updated on Saturdays); the writing will not. We made the agreement a week and a half ago so there are two songs up already.
posted by dobbs at 2:47 PM on January 3, 2007
Adiphon
posted by wmeredith at 3:30 PM on January 10, 2007
- Ad - a paid announcement, as of goods for sale, in newspapers or magazines, on radio or television, etc.
- Antiphon - a verse or song to be chanted or sung in response.
- Adiphon - a reply by means of alteration, caption or addendum to an advertisement.
posted by wmeredith at 3:30 PM on January 10, 2007
Dream Ledger
Dream Ledger is a simple online dream journal. Think about it as 'dream blogging'. While all of your posts are private, there is a discussion community built in to the site for your to share your experiences or ask questions with other members. New features will be added as time goes on, but the purpose is to grow a strong community and build a useful product - not to just code bells and whistles.
posted by mgorsuch at 8:15 PM on January 10, 2007
Dream Ledger is a simple online dream journal. Think about it as 'dream blogging'. While all of your posts are private, there is a discussion community built in to the site for your to share your experiences or ask questions with other members. New features will be added as time goes on, but the purpose is to grow a strong community and build a useful product - not to just code bells and whistles.
posted by mgorsuch at 8:15 PM on January 10, 2007
Live Preview HTML Editor
I have written a simple live preview HTML editor inspired from the MarsEdit blog editor. It does nothing else than show HTML changes in real-time, but hopefully new features will be added soon.
posted by jeyoung at 12:42 PM on January 17, 2007
I have written a simple live preview HTML editor inspired from the MarsEdit blog editor. It does nothing else than show HTML changes in real-time, but hopefully new features will be added soon.
posted by jeyoung at 12:42 PM on January 17, 2007
A revamped
Last fall I became the new cohost of the call-in radio show A Way With Words, a weekly hour-long question-and-answer program about language, grammar, word origins, and related topics. We've been working undercover ever since to take it in new directions, changing the show in great ways. Well, the first shows in the new season—my first as permanent new cohost—air Saturday, January 20, and then every week thereafter. They're broadcast from KPBS in San Diego via radio, streaming, and podcast, as well as on WFPL in Louisvile and on the Wisconsin Public Radio network.
posted by Mo Nickels at 10:26 PM on January 17, 2007
Last fall I became the new cohost of the call-in radio show A Way With Words, a weekly hour-long question-and-answer program about language, grammar, word origins, and related topics. We've been working undercover ever since to take it in new directions, changing the show in great ways. Well, the first shows in the new season—my first as permanent new cohost—air Saturday, January 20, and then every week thereafter. They're broadcast from KPBS in San Diego via radio, streaming, and podcast, as well as on WFPL in Louisvile and on the Wisconsin Public Radio network.
posted by Mo Nickels at 10:26 PM on January 17, 2007
Review 2006
After the success of last year's review in which readers of my blog talked about how 2005 was for them, this year I asked readers of my blog to send in a their own questions within one of five catagories -- personal, trivia, review, opinion and advice -- for me to answer for them. Over the course of the thirty-one days I provided answers to queries on everything from what my total fantasy life would be to how the Millenium Falcon travels so fast to the appeal of Kiera Knightley. As it turned out this would actually become less of a review of the year than an audit of my life with a whole range of tricky questions about who I am now along with everything else. I thought you might enjoy reading the answers.
posted by feelinglistless at 2:56 PM on January 6, 2007
After the success of last year's review in which readers of my blog talked about how 2005 was for them, this year I asked readers of my blog to send in a their own questions within one of five catagories -- personal, trivia, review, opinion and advice -- for me to answer for them. Over the course of the thirty-one days I provided answers to queries on everything from what my total fantasy life would be to how the Millenium Falcon travels so fast to the appeal of Kiera Knightley. As it turned out this would actually become less of a review of the year than an audit of my life with a whole range of tricky questions about who I am now along with everything else. I thought you might enjoy reading the answers.
posted by feelinglistless at 2:56 PM on January 6, 2007
Bingo RSS Feeds
Continuing my anal need to make mini-sites about Bingo - I put together a little site where I can add RSS feeds of Bingo news for interested parties to either subscribe too or syndicate to their readers. Hey, laugh all you will - 2007 will officially be the year that Bingo is cool... :)
posted by Dio at 2:41 PM on January 16, 2007
Continuing my anal need to make mini-sites about Bingo - I put together a little site where I can add RSS feeds of Bingo news for interested parties to either subscribe too or syndicate to their readers. Hey, laugh all you will - 2007 will officially be the year that Bingo is cool... :)
posted by Dio at 2:41 PM on January 16, 2007