NP cool sites

[Doug Millison]

I have a feeling some of you will like these two sites, as reviewed 
by The Scout Report:

Monuments of the Future: Designs by El Lissitzky [Flash, .pdf]
http://www.getty.edu/gri/digital/lissitzky/

The Getty Research Institute presents this Website on the work of El
Lissitzky, 1890-1941, using materials from their extensive archival
collections. The site includes over 175 images, a chronology of El
Lissitzky's life, and links to related resources at the Getty and
other institutions. For those with fast connections, there is an
animated introduction. The Website preserves thematic sections from
the exhibition of the same name displayed at the Getty, November
1998-February 1999, which connect El Lissitzky's theories to his
artistic work. These sections display on the right side of the
screen, while exhibition content shows on the left, resulting in
awkward scrolling to see everything. The section Printing Trades and
Pressa Exhibitions includes an accordion-folded photomontage,
designed for the Soviet Pavilion at a printing trades show in 1928,
fortunately cleverly programmed to scroll automatically, making
viewing much easier. Another nice feature of the site is the
availability of .pdf format text, chronology, and checklist for
printing.

  _Edge: Third Culture_
http://www.edge.org/

This stimulating online journal is the main publication of Edge
Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose mandate is "to promote
inquiry into and discussion of intellectual, philosophical, artistic,
and literary issues, as well as to work for the intellectual and
social achievement of society." To that end, the journal brings
together speculative articles on contemporary issues by leading
scholars and practitioners in the sciences and humanities as well as
interviews with these same luminaries. The latest issue, published
last week, includes, among other items, an open letter by Richard
Dawkins to Prince Charles criticizing his recent call for science to
be tempered with a sense of the spiritual, Freeman Dyson's thoughts
on spirituality and physics entitled "Progress in Religion," and a
medical doctor's argument that the large number of stock market
players on psychoactive drugs like Prozac may be in part responsible
for the current long-term economic boom. But the most interesting
article is probably V.S. Ramachandran's "Mirror Neurons And Imitation
Learning As The Driving Force Behind 'The Great Leap Forward' In
Human Evolution," which argues that recent discoveries concerning the
frontal lobes of monkeys are likely to lead to an unprecedented
unified theory for human psychology. A searchable archive of past
issues is available, reaching back to the first biweekly issue in
December of 1996. An annual feature of _Edge_ is its "What is the
most important unreported story?" giving scientists and thinkers the
chance to suggest where they believe the next revolution in knowledge
will be coming from.


And, what the heck, they say Pynchon is or used to be a baseball fan:

Baseball Heckle Depot
http://www.heckledepot.com/

Need some snappy one-liners to torment the opponents's right fielder?
Did the umps forget their glasses again? The Baseball Heckle Depot
will serve all your heckling needs, with over 660 wisecracks and
putdowns. Organized by heckle recipient (umpires, pitchers, fielders,
and batters), the site is easy to navigate, also offering chants,
posters, and some ballplayer comebacks. Other content includes a
ranked list of ballpark fans and a heckling hall of fame. Users can
also print out the visiting team's roster (and follow a link to their
salaries) and vote for the heckle of the month.
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