The bests of the bests

Each year, two websites for each of nearly 70 categories (from "Activism" to "Youth", through "Art", "Newspaper" ...) are elected as the best, one is chosen by professionals and the other by cybernauts. Here are the results :
to consider before googling ?

Language renewal

Internet can help renew our languages ! have a look at this site :
it's very simple, any body can submit a definition for an existing or a new word, then other people can vote for or against it. The result is very interesting :-) ...

Flash Experiments

Physical and mathematical principles made graphical and interactive in flash : a very nice collection of them is there :
source : http://blog.flashden.net/general/21-incredibly-creative-flash-websites/

Flash Art

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art gives access through an abstract website to some art pieces made with flash. For a nice and strange visit :

A Semantic Map for Multimedia Arts

the site http://netzspannung.org/, dedicated to multimedia arts, gives access to its archives of artists and projects through a nice semantic map, which can be launch (requiring java > 1.4) from there :
explainations about the map are given here : map description

PDF Mags

Dealing with a lot of themes, from Architecture to Writing, through Graphics and Reportage ..., a lot of PDF magazines can be accessed from there :

each one I have looked at was at least an interesting visual experience

The Online Pinball Hall ...

I like very much pinballs because although they're based on simple principles they are a great support for making alive imaginary worlds. A large bunch of online flipper are gathered here :

just for the fun :-) !

Time Travel !

Time Travel exists !
this website : http://concerts.wolfgangsvault.com/
enables you to live great past concerts, from the Rolling Stones to Janis Joplin, a lot of them can be heard there,
(it's free but you'll have to leave an e-mail)

Visit San Francisco ...

A real great work there : http://www.mapjack.com/
you can visit San Francisco and other cities as if you were there !

Chocolate Emergency

far from home ?
forgotten your chocolate reserve ?
don't panic, have a look there : http://chocomap.com/chocolate-map.php

Simple Knots ?

Of course people make mathematic theories on them, build languages to describe them ...
but I found a nice catalog of animated real-life knots here :
http://www.animatedknots.com/index.php

An Atlas of Cyberspaces

How to master cyberspaces without an atlas !?
This site is an interesting portal towards many projects of representations and mappings of the cyberspace :
http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/atlas.html
or (http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/m.dodge/cybergeography//atlas/atlas.html)

Remember the Tower of Babel ? ...

Surely it is not the ultimate solution, but it is quite a great work and tool that proposes the Lexilogos site :
http://www.lexilogos.com/english/index.htm for the english portal
http://www.lexilogos.com/index.htm for the french portal
with online dictionaries for tenth of languages. It has a translation system in which you only need to type a word once before having it translated with the different dictionaries available for a given language (for example translation between french and english can be done through 9 dictionaries, 11 between german and english !).

Just in case...

Thank to the wired magazine wiki site, you will now know how to handle zombies, especially when they are not happy and thinking that you are part of what prevent them to be :
http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Survive_a_Zombie_Apocalypse

Science Principles in Pictures

Greg Egan has developped a very nice set of graphical applets that present many scientific principles with nice animations :
http://www.gregegan.net/APPLETS/Applets.html

A little map of the web ...

To surf on the web as simply as to travel in the subway ?! Have a look there :
http://informationarchitects.jp/start/?include=0

Convert your image in 3D scene

A great work of the Standford 3D Reconstruction Group.
On this page :
http://make3d.stanford.edu/
you can upload a photograph which is then turned into a 3D VRML scene from this single view. If you don't have a VRML viewer then a little movie, taken by a camera flying in the scene, is shown.

Patterns for Information Visualization

This site : http://niceone.org/infodesign/ has the interest of presenting a taxonomy of graphical patterns for information representation.

I like this approach as it makes wonder about the roots of the semantic of diagrams, which are I think linked to the roots of our culture.