links for 2008-05-20

Italian art forgery museum.

"Online noise maps which allow users to enter their postcode to find out noise levels in their area were published by the government yesterday."

YouTomb is a research project by MIT Free Culture that tracks videos taken down from YouTube for alleged copyright violation.

"These portion comparisons, adapted from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute?s (NHLBI) Portion Distortion Quiz, give a visual representation of what sizes used to be compared to what they are today."

"One of Sen. Hillary Clinton's top financial supporters offered $1 million to the Young Democrats of America during a phone conversation in which he also pressed for the organization's two uncommitted superdelegates to endorse the New York Democrat."

"The images in this gallery are mostly from the 1940's and 50's, and all are from albums that are some flavor of classical music or classical vocal."

"A new study overturns the common assumption that the ?Google Generation' ? youngsters born or brought up in the Internet age ? is the most web-literate."