History + Art 74 
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Oldest known copy of the ‘Mona Lisa’ (re)discovered in Spain
“Conservators at the Prado in Madrid recently made an astonishing discovery. They announced yesterday that the painting assumed to be a replica of the Mona Lisa, had actually been painted by one of his key pupils, working alongside the master. The picture is more than just a studio copy – it changed as Leonardo developed his original composition.
The so-called “Mona Lisa of the Prado” has long been in the museum’s collection, tucked away in its vaults and displayed only occasionally, its significance not fully understood. The experts thought it was painted by some Dutch artist because they assumed it was painted on oak (a wood not used by Florentine painters), but actually it was painted on walnut. In size, it is close to that of the original: the Louvre’s painting is 77cm x 53cm and the Prado’s copy 76cm x 57cm.
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AccuJazz - The future of jazz radio“
AccuJazz is an all-Jazz radio station designed to showcase the exciting potential of Internet radio. It contains over fifty jazz channels based on categories of style, instrument, composer, region, decade and more. Each channel is further customizable by the option to "deselect" artists the listener would rather not hear. New subchannels are added frequently. The variety of channels and their customizable nature makes AccuJazz a radio experience unlike any other.
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The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka - Project Gutenberg“
This audio reading of The Metamorphosis is read by David Barnes. Contents : # I - 00:49:52 # II - 00:53:51 # III - 00:50:42
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The History of Sampling - Jesse kriss / may 2004“
Each square represents an album, with sampled artists on the lower half and sampling artists on the upper half. Albums are placed horizontally according to release date, while vertical placement reflects the number of samples on that album. The middle resprents the area of most sampling, so commonly sampled albums are closer to the side with the sampling albums, and vice versa.
The rectangles that appear to the right of a selected album represent the individual songs. Songs with taller rectangles have a higher sample count.
The sampling data is from the-breaks.com, although album information for the sampling songs was collected through other means.
jesse kriss / may 2005
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L'Histoire par l'image“
Explore l'Histoire de France à travers les collections des musées et les documents d'archives
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Rrrewind: popular links archive“A Wayback Machine for Social Media
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Jean-Noël Lafargue - Ordinateurs célèbres“Parmi les diverses lubies qui animent ce blog se trouve le recensement, qui se voudrait à terme systématique, des ordinateurs et des intelligences artificielles notables ou notoires issus de fictions diverses : cinéma ou littérature notamment.
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Médiatheque - La bande vidéo“Plateforme virtuelle de diffusion, de programmation et d’information offre l’accès, directement en ligne, à une partie représentative des œuvres présentées, produites ou coproduites par La Bande Vidéo sur les vingt dernières années.
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National Jukebox - Historical Recordings 1901-1925“The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge.
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Hypercities“HyperCities makes possible for geographic maps to seamlessly merging the historical representations of the city in their current situation, and thus connecting the digital archives, maps, and stories with the physical world.
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Abandoned Monuments that look like they're from the Future“These structures were commissioned by former Yugoslavian president Josip Broz Tito in the 1960s and 70s to commemorate sites where WWII battles took place.
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LIFE photo archive hosted by Google“Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.
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Irony and Utopia: History of Computer Art“Selection of artworks which in some way engage computers or ideas about computing. The selection of works will highlight the philosophical, cultural, and ideological differences separating technological optimists, or utopians, and technological pessimists
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A history of the world in 100 seconds“Many Wikipedia articles are tagged with geographic coordinates. Many have references to historic events. Cross referencing these two subsets and plotting them year on year adds up to a dynamic visualization of Wikipedia's view of world history.
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Ward Shelley - Autobiography“Hand drawn autobiography time-line visualisation.
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