CityWalki is a great site that lets you walk, drive, or fly cities from around the world. It's got a dead simple interface and high quality video (despite my slightly blurry screengrab of Barcelona).

And yes, there's an entry for Toronto.

David Hilowitz found a vintage Panasonic Do-Re-Mi on eBay and restored it. He sampled it and offers up the sample for free.

From 1980-2005, Larry Katz, a reporter for the Boston Herald, interviewed music's biggest stars and recorded their conversations onto cassette tapes.

His collection has been sitting untouched and unheard for decades...until now.

Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin, Mick Jagger, Bowie, Miles Davis... Here's a 20 min video "trailer":

Not exactly sure what it is about Michael Wolf's photos of Paris rooftops that I find intriguing, but there's something there that captivates.

More on Wolf's site.

For more than a decade, Gail Albert Halaban has been photographing people through their windows — with permission. She's got a series of photos from New York, Italy, Paris, Istanbul, and Buenos Aires.

And here's a BBC Provile of Halaban's project:

More on Halaban's site.

Because the Copyright lapsed and the film entered the public domain, the Internet Archive has a copy of Orson Welles' The Trial, based on Kafka's novel.

You can watch the trailer for the 4K restoration on YouTube. The version about is 720p.

via Metafilter.

Matt Haughey's got a blog post called A Guide to Using Signal for Government Workers, but it works as a guide for anyone and spells out in a simple-to-understand single page why you should be using Signal.

If you don't know Signal, it's like WhatsApp except it's run by a non-profit, not a billionaire (WhatsApp and Messenger are owned by Facebook). It's a free communication app that works world-wide and runs on Android, iPhone, iPad, and Mac desktops. Unlike Apple's iMessage Signal messages are always encrypted, which means no one (not even Signal) has access to them and they're therefor subpoena-proof.

Free. Encrypted. No billionaires or nasty corporations.

At a party the other night I met Tanja Tiziana, the photographer behind Not My Father's Slides, "a blog dedicated to vintage photographic slides — either found, rescued or donated." Fantastic project!

Someone's done a 4K restoration of Tango, Zbigniew Rybczyński's transfixing Academy Award-winning short film. I first saw this in 1993 when running Art & Trash, Toronto's greatest video store. Rybczyński was the first Pole to win an Oscar.

After The Tone is an archive of found answering machine incoming messages.