An interesting list from The Observer discussing the 50 albums that changed music.

Number 1? The Velvet Underground. Can't say I've listened to that one all the way through, but it must be good.

"A look at the devices that have helped shape the course of human history."

Oddly enough this came from Forbes, but it's a really interesting look at just that: the 20 most important tools ever.

I don't believe they're in any order, but my vote for number one would probably be the pencil.

A very cool project which charts the "branches and connections of 100 years of music using the London Underground map[.]"

The don't-blink-or-you'll-miss-it link to download the map is underneath the picture.

The Yorck Project collects digital images from vast collections of art from numerous artists and painters.

This is a page that contains a huge amount of them.

A great project that aims to preserve and digitize all those old wax cylinders that play on those Edison players.

This is on the MAKE blog, and contains a link to the NYT article about the project, as well as the official website of the project.

My parents have a lot of these, and it's great to see someone attempting to preserve them.

This is the followup to Devil in the White City. Not a sequel per se, but written in the same vain.

Larson again follows the stories of two men, seemingly opposites, who's paths inevitably cross as Marconi toils endlessly to invent a device that could utilize wireless communication, while Dr. H. H. Crippen goes on a murder spree of sorts.

I read Devil in the White City, and it was awesome. This looks just as good if not even better.

This seems like a really interesting book. It's about the cholera outbreak in London in the 1850s. Apparently, it was really bad, especially when, apparently, two million people were squeezed into 30 square miles.

An absolutely brilliant site, which "provides access to over 520,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the the collections of The New York Public Library."

There's some really great stuff to be found here.

Austria launched this site as "an online database Tuesday to find the owners of art and other cultural items that may have been looted under Nazi rule and are now in some of the country's museums." From this (http://tinyurl.com/tdmck) Yahoo news article. The site's in Austrian, but the "Gesamt Katalog" looks like the place to start. I think this seems like a great idea, and it will be interesting to see how this works out for them.