A bundle of random links today. Digital Urban - The Tutorials, everything you need to know about stitching the cascade of geographic and mapping data into panoramas and virtual spaces / Vastpark, create your own virtual world (via Wonderland). See also the Pruned post on Simulated Worlds, creating virtual spaces the old fashioned way with bulldozers and dynamite / weblogs: Take Every Day as it comes / Ritual Landscape / Nascent Ideas / The Ephemerist / The Magistrate's Blog, fascinating insight into the English legal system.

Someone, somewhere, is out there cataloguing everything: Record Envelope, 'a little library of factory sleeves' (via tmn) / matchboxes / What's the Jackanory, fashion, photography, etc., from New York, by photographer Andrew Hetherington / Lost at E minor, a culture weblog / good thinking at Ortholog: Stand on Hawaii and Box Clever / mp3 blogs: Good Vibrato, Who Needs Radio?, motel de moka, Keytars and Violins, and a useful aggregator, the hype machine.

Bike paths not worthy of federal support, says transportation secretary / Marius Watz's Unlekker, a repository of design and artwork. See also Code and Form / Naomi Klein's film The Shock Doctrine takes up where Adam Curtis's The Century of the Self leaves off, only it doesn't have any of the latter's cynical wit / headzGallery, Japanese culture meets Eastern European toy cameras. Nudity involved. See also PowerShovel AUDIO / The Rushmore Academy is a site dedicated to the films of Wes Anderson / architetti senza tetto, a weblog / moderific, wallpapers and more.

The National Serro Scotty Organization devoted to a little-known Airstream rival / VW Bus ads / the modern equivalent: Viano Marco Polo - neat Quicktime interior animations / a set of townscape photos by Thomas Struth, via The Cartoonist / Texas Bird's-Eye Views, an interactive exhibit at the Amon Carter Museum. Top image, Denison in 1891 / Paperholic / the Top 20 Most Bizarre Experiments at the Museum of Hoaxes, via the Kirscher Society, which has grim imagery of Vladimir Demikhov’s desperately sad Two-Headed Dogs / amazing Lego Tower / photography and art by Pogus Caesar / Inspired Design, illustration and art weblog / a year of sleep observer by flip flop flyin

Abandoned Plane Wrecks of the North (via me-fi) / are architects moving into Second Life? / flickr's computer simulations pool (via haddock). Invaluable to people like us who get their flight sim thrills from watching videos on YouTube and screenshot collections / lovely little animation by Mansilla + Tunon for their proposal for the redevelopment of Chatelet Les Halles in Paris, mixing self-conscious digital visualisations with a quirky analogue sensibility / 20 years of urbanism, condensed into 10 seconds: Shinjuku Skyscrapers Time-lapse. See also earthquake simulation (via Pruned) / are we entering the age of vocal terrorism?posted by things at 22:58 / 0 comments