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Today I Learned
Today I Learned
TIL is an open-source project by Hashrocket that exists to catalogue the sharing & accumulation of knowledge as it happens day-to-day.
·til.hashrocket.com·
Today I Learned
The Greatest Films of All Time
The Greatest Films of All Time
In 1952, the Sight and Sound team had the novel idea of asking critics to name the greatest films of all time. The tradition became decennial, increasing in size and prestige as the decades passed. The Sight and Sound poll is now a major bellwether of critical opinion on cinema and this year’s edition (its eighth) is the largest ever, with 1,639 participating critics, programmers, curators, archivists and academics each submitting their top ten ballot. What has risen up the ranks? What has fallen? Has 2012’s winner Vertigo held on to its title? Find out below.
·bfi.org.uk·
The Greatest Films of All Time
USC Optical Sound Effects Library
USC Optical Sound Effects Library
The “SSE” sound effects come from the Sunset Editorial collection which was donated to USC Cinema in 1990. Sunset Editorial had a low-key history in Hollywood. Not a lot is known about them. This is because their credits in films were usually just “Sound Effects — Sunset Editorial”. The...
·archive.org·
USC Optical Sound Effects Library
Play Anything
Play Anything
The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games
·bogost.com·
Play Anything
Ian Bogost
Ian Bogost
The Atlantic covers news, politics, culture, technology, health, and more, through its articles, podcasts, videos, and flagship magazine.
·theatlantic.com·
Ian Bogost
What I've been reading and not having time to read - Marginal REVOLUTION
What I've been reading and not having time to read - Marginal REVOLUTION
Marcel Proust, The Seventy-Five Folios & Other Unpublished Manuscripts.  Early drafts of In Search of Lost Time, fragments, but still of interest to Proust lovers. Claire Hughes Johnson, Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building is that rare thing — a good and also useful management book.  She was COO at Stripe, this is […]
·marginalrevolution.com·
What I've been reading and not having time to read - Marginal REVOLUTION
yeggi - 3D Printer Models Search Engine
yeggi - 3D Printer Models Search Engine
4.35 million indexed printable 3D model files worldwide! We collect 3D models from all websites and communities for your 3D printer.
·yeggi.com·
yeggi - 3D Printer Models Search Engine
Take Me Back To
Take Me Back To
Discover what the world looked like on Takemeback.to. Which News were making the headlines? Which were the top Hits and the most popular Movies?
·takemeback.to·
Take Me Back To
Atlas Obscura - Curious and Wondrous Travel Destinations
Atlas Obscura - Curious and Wondrous Travel Destinations
Definitive guidebook and friendly tour-guide to the world's most wondrous places. Travel tips, articles, strange facts and unique events.
·atlasobscura.com·
Atlas Obscura - Curious and Wondrous Travel Destinations
Gigablast, the Search Engine
Gigablast, the Search Engine
A video about Gigablast, an alternative search engine.
·invidious.fdn.fr·
Gigablast, the Search Engine
Openverse
Openverse
Search over 600 million free and openly licensed images, photos, audio, and other media types for reuse and remixing.
·openverse.org·
Openverse