Arden & Indiana University

I love the name of this program: The Synthetic Worlds Initiative. Sounds a little scary and Gibson-esque, but also really rad. Their marquee 'world' is Arden based on Shakespeare. The website for the program is rather nice especially for a university.
Arden

Icarus' Ilk

Sometimes people do things that dwarf our everday experiences. These are those people:

NYTimes article on 'Flying People'

Great Media Player

www.jeroenwijering.com

It can play anything!

Graffiti Research

Graffiti Research Lab - kinda geeky and corny, but I can't really blame em. If only they hadn't mentioned "Style Wars" as such an inspiration. That sounds way too try-hard hipstery. Graffiti has been around in YOUR city for at least 20 years now, a movie shouldn't have to tell you that.

A good article from WIRED showing that there's more to it than those cats above. Especially the German subway submergence.

Superawesome

This is probably one of the coolest things I've seen on the web in a long time. There's even a Director Demo version on the web page. Essentially its an application that allows you to analyze and manipulate frames of film in incredibly interesting and beautiful ways.

http://www.recreating-movement.com/

More beautiful visualizations

Somebody's thesis project (uh-oh):
http://well-formed-data.net/thesis

Falling Down

The News:

http://www.fallingtimes.info/index.php

In real time, watch our "decadent" society crumble!

Thanks to my classmate Brigitte for the link.