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05/21/13 - Dictionary of Numbers - A Google Chrome extension that tries to make sense of numbers you encounter on the web by giving you a description of that number in human terms. (dictionaryofnumbers.com)
04/20/13 - Inequality and New York's Subway - New York City has a problem with income inequality. And it's getting worse - the top of the spectrum is gaining and the bottom is losing. Along individual subway lines, earnings range from poverty to considerable wealth. The interactive infographic here charts these shifts, using data on median household income, from the U.S. Census Bureau, for census tracts with subway stations. (www.newyorker.com/sandbox/business/subway.html)
04/19/13 - Wired 20th anniversary - In his very first editor's letter, Louis Rossetto wrote, "There are a lot of magazines about technology. WIRED is not one of them. WIRED is about the most powerful people on the planet today: the Digital Generation." On this, our 20th anniversary, the time has come to reflect on this generation of leaders, thinkers, and makers. These people, their companies, and their ideas have shaped the future we live in today. Below, we've gathered stories for, by, and about the people who have shaped the planet's past 20 years - and will continue driving the next. (www.wired.com/magazine/wired-20th-anniversary)
04/13/13 - Westeroscraft - WesterosCraft is a Minecraft server dedicated to rebuilding the lands of Westeros from the popular series A Song of Ice and Fire, written by George R.R. Martin. (westeroscraft.com)
03/28/13 - forecast.io - A new full-featured weather service from scratch, complete with 7-day forecasts that cover the whole world, beautiful weather visualizations, and a time machine for exploring the weather in the past and far future. (forecast.io)
03/22/13 - Tough Critics - A video series starring Elisabeth, Onaje and Will -- three fifth-graders from the Little Red School House in Greenwich Village. In each episode, the trio of burgeoning music critics takes on a new release -- and they don't pull any punches. (soundcheck.wnyc.org/series/tough-critics)
03/12/13 - The Aleph: Infinite Wonder / Infinite Pity - The Aleph is a short story by Jorge Luis Borges in which a man is suddenly able to see all things at once. I wanted to present a version of what The Aleph might look like now, designed as an endless stream of descriptive passages pulled from the web. (hirmes.com/aleph)
03/05/13 - What Coke Contains - The Vons grocery store two miles from my home in Los Angeles, California sells 12 cans of Coca-Cola for $6.59 - 54 cents each. The tool chain that created this simple product is incomprehensibly complex. (medium.com/the-ingredients-2/221d449929ef)
02/27/13 - the memory palace - Short, surprising stories of the past, sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes hysterical, always super-great. (thememorypalace.us)
02/26/13 - Lifeboat - Lifeboat is a movement of people like you, rediscovering great friendship. Find inspiration, learning and practice. (getlifeboat.com)
02/14/13 - Inside the Battle of Hoth - How did the Galactic Empire ever cement its hold on the Star Wars Universe? The war machine built by Emperor Palpatine and run by Darth Vader is a spectacularly bad fighting force, as evidenced by all of the pieces of Death Star littering space. But of all the Empire's failures, none is a more spectacular military fiasco than the Battle of Hoth at the beginning of The Empire Strikes Back. (www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/02/battle-of-hoth)
02/12/13 - HTML9 Responsive Boilerstrap JS - H9RBS.js (v0.0001) is a flexible, dependency-free, lightweight, device-agnostic, modular, baked-in, component framework MVC library shoelacestrap to help you kickstart your responsive CSS-based app architecture backbone kitchensink tweetybirds. (html9responsiveboilerstrapjs.com)
02/11/13 - Empirical Zeal - New experiments, discoveries and big ideas from fields such as evolutionary biology, genetics, and physics. (empiricalzeal.com)
01/31/13 - Dancers among us! - "The inspiration for this book came to me one afternoon as I watched my son, Hudson, playing with his toy bus. I was trying to keep pace with his three-year-old mind as he got deeper and deeper into a fantasy involving nothing more than a yellow plastic box and armless figurines. At least that's what I saw. He saw frantic commuters rushing to catch the 77 local bus to Australia. He jumped in place, mouth open and slapping his knees, joyously reacting to a world I couldn't see, but one powerfully present for him." (chicquero.com/2013/01/23/dancers-among-us)
01/14/13 - Made by Hand - Made by Hand was created out of the belief that the things we collect, consume, use, and share are part of who we are as individuals. Objects that surround the space we dwell in tell stories, and not just about us. Where did they come from? Who made them? How were they made? (thisismadebyhand.com)
01/12/13 - Census Dotmap - A map of every person counted by the 2010 US and 2011 Canadian censuses. The map has 341,817,095 dots - one for each person. (bmander.com/dotmap)
01/04/13 - Significant Objects... and how they got that way - The project auctioned off thrift-store objects via eBay; for item descriptions, short stories purpose-written by over 200 contributing writers were substituted. The objects, purchased for $1.25 apiece on average, sold for nearly $8,000.00 in total. (Proceeds were distributed to the contributors, and to nonprofit creative writing organizations.) All the project's stories are archived on this site. (significantobjects.com)
