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• 05/19/13 - Wikipedia Recent Changes Map - Mapping IP addresses of anonymous Wikipedia edits. (cmap.hatnote.com)
• 05/18/13 - Asterix - The Latin jokes explained. (www.andrewgirardin.com/asterix-latin-jokes-explained.html)
• 05/17/13 - neko font - The cat font. (nekofont.upat.jp)
• 05/16/13 - Abandoned Geography - A web gallery for abandoned places. (abandonedography.com)
• 05/15/13 - Fighting GIFs - A huge collection of fighting arcade game backgrounds. (imgur.com/a/GPlx4)
• 05/14/13 - The Worst Room - A blog about trying to find affordable housing in New York City. (theworstroom.tumblr.com)
• 05/13/13 - Crayola History - The Definitive History of the Colors of Crayola (crayoncollecting.com/ccolor0.htm)
• 05/12/13 - Travelling Salesman: the movie - What if P = NP? Four mathematicians are hired by the US government to solve the most powerful problem in computer science history. (travellingsalesmanmovie.com)
• 05/11/13 - Legendary Photos - The 45 Most Legendary Pictures Ever Taken (According to Buzzfeed.) (www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/the-most-legendary-pictures-ever-taken)
• 05/10/13 - The Krugman Times - The New York Times By Its Only Columnist: Paul Krugman. (krugmantimes.com)
• 05/09/13 - MLB: Can money buy baseball glory? - An interactive infographic comparing MLB team salaries. (http://graphics.latimes.com/mlb-salaries)
• 05/08/13 - Data Science of the Facebook World - An interesting analysis of Facebook data. (blog.stephenwolfram.com/2013/04/data-science-of-the-facebook-world)
• 05/07/13 - Vote in BC - We're one week away from election day in British Columbia. Do you have a voting plan? (www.bcndp.ca/vote)
• 05/06/13 - Great Britain Names - A zoomable map of the most common surnames in Britain. (www.uncertaintyofidentity.com/GB_Names/Mapping.aspx)
• 05/05/13 - Programmer Interrupted - How to let your programmers be productive. (blog.ninlabs.com/2013/01/programmer-interrupted)
• 05/04/13 - paper cruisers - Paper models of Toyota Land Cruisers and 4x4 trucks. (papercruiser.com)
• 05/03/13 - Every Noise at Once - An algorithmically-generated non-analytical map of the musical genre-space. (www.furia.com/misc/genremaps/engenremap.html)
• 05/02/13 - History of SF Place Names - How San Francisco got its street names. (sfstreets.noahveltman.com)
• 05/01/13 - Here is Today - A simple interactive animation of time scales from today back to the start of the universe. (hereistoday.com)

april 2013

• 04/30/13 - The Empire Strikes Back - Behind the scenes photos from The Empire Strikes Back. (imgur.com/a/HGtG0)
• 04/29/13 - Doctor Who - Indisputable Proof That Doctor Who Is Based On Actual Events. (www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/indisputable-proof-that-doctor-who-is-based-on-actual-events)
• 04/28/13 - Improvisation - The Periodic Table of Improvisation. (www.thewayofimprovisation.com/periodictable)
• 04/27/13 - Texts from Superheroes - Saving the world, and conversations. (Likely NSFW.) (textsfromsuperheroes.com)
• 04/26/13 - Better Supes - Little girls are better at designing superheroes than you are. (bettersupes.tumblr.com)
• 04/25/13 - Pathfinder - A clever demo of various shortest-path algorithms. (qiao.github.io/PathFinding.js/visual)
• 04/24/13 - Marine Traffic - Track marine vessels aroung the world live online. (www.marinetraffic.com/ais)
• 04/23/13 - Movies in Color - Stills from films and their corresponding color palettes. (moviesincolor.tumblr.com)
• 04/22/13 - BC NDP - Just launched a new website for the BC NDP. What do you think? (www.bcndp.ca)
• 04/21/13 - Insects in Flight - A beautiful gallery of insects in flight. (www.flickr.com/photos/13084997@N03/sets/72157610450102014)
• 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)
• 04/18/13 - StarRSS - Read your favourite RSS feed Star Wars style. (fotcorn.github.io/StarRSS)
• 04/17/13 - Chese - And its origins. (i.imgur.com/AEYUEjF.png)
• 04/16/13 - Neon Luminance - Landscapes lit up by glow sticks, road flares, headlamps, and moonlight. (www.fromthelenz.com/neon-luminance)
• 04/15/13 - Where have all the wildlings gone? - A graphic tribute to Game of Thrones. (wherehaveallthewildlingsgone.com)
• 04/14/13 - Two-Letter Words - A Poem So You'll Know All 101 Two-Letter Words (www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/13/national-scrabble-day-a-poem-so-you-ll-know-all-101-two-letter-words.html)
• 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)
• 04/12/13 - Train Times - Live train map for the London Underground. (traintimes.org.uk/map/tube)
• 04/11/13 - Netflix Posters - Netflix Teases Your Funny Bone With New 'Arrested Development' Posters. (mashable.com/2013/04/10/arrested-development-netflix-posters)
• 04/10/13 - Infographics and Visualizations - 10 Tools for Creating Infographics and Visualizations (www.seomoz.org/blog/10-tools-for-creating-infographics-visualizations)
• 04/09/13 - OpenElections - What OpenElections Results Data Might Look Like (blog.openelections.net/2013/04/03/what-openelections-results-data-might-look-like)
• 04/08/13 - Animal eyes - Extreme close ups of animal eyes. (www.behance.net/gallery/Animal-eyes/2123112)
• 04/07/13 - Weird Twitter: The Oral History - Absurd, absurdist, and in its own elliptical way, one of the biggest influences on comedy today. Meet the unwitting pioneers behind the internet's dumbest revolution. (www.buzzfeed.com/jwherrman/weird-twitter-the-oral-history)
• 04/06/13 - International Pillow Fight Day - How are you celebrating? (2013.pillowfightday.com)
• 04/05/13 - Nonprofit Technology Network - The membership organization of nonprofit professionals who put technology to use for their causes. (www.nten.org)
• 04/04/13 - ds106 - The open course in digital storytelling. (ds106.us)
• 04/03/13 - Seeing is Believing - A visual storytelling guide. (www.resource-media.org/visual-story-lab/report)
• 04/02/13 - Infomercial Animated GIFs - Because life is hard. (imgur.com/a/YET5a)
• 04/01/13 - Harlem Shake - You didn't make the Harlem Shake go viral-corporations did. (qz.com/67991/you-didnt-make-the-harlem-shake-go-viral-corporations-did)

march 2013

• 03/31/13 - recalling 1993 - Hear what every neighborhood was like 20 years ago from any pay phone in Manhattan. (recalling1993.com)
• 03/30/13 - Center for Evaluation Innovation - Pushing evaluation practice in new directions and into new arenas. (evaluationinnovation.org)
• 03/29/13 - Introducing MyCityHall.ca - A platform for citizens to track, learn about, and influence the decisions of their city council. (blog.opennorth.ca/2013/02/19/introducing-mycityhall)
• 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)
• 03/27/13 - Our Incredible Journey - Cataloging the thrilling opportunities start-ups are offered when their incredible journey continues by being bought by an exciting company. (ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com)
• 03/26/13 - Time's 140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2013 - Every year, TIME recognizes those who exemplify the very best wit and wisdom Twitter has to offer. Here are the 140 feeds that inspire us to laugh, learn or shake our heads in wonderment. (techland.time.com/2013/03/25/140-best-twitter-feeds-of-2013/slide/all)
• 03/25/13 - Portraits of Refugees - Posing With Their Most Valued Possessions. (www.petapixel.com/2013/03/21/portraits-of-refugees-posing-with-their-most-valued-possessions)
• 03/24/13 - Thank the Academy - A visualization of how Oscar winners express gratitude. (rebeccarolfe.com/projects/thanktheacademy)
• 03/23/13 - Swedish Mannequins - The real story behind the Swedish mannequins that looked like "real women". (www.swedishmannequins.com)
• 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)
• 03/21/13 - 10 Illuminating Fan Letters To Famous Authors - From famous authors. (flavorwire.com/377707/10-illuminating-fan-letters-from-famous-authors-to-famous-authors)
• 03/20/13 - Cleveland Memory Project - A look at Cleveland History. (clevelandmemory.org)
• 03/19/13 - Letters From a Private - My Uncle Bruce was in the army in 1944-45. He wrote home almost every day. These are his letters. (lettersfromaprivate.wordpress.com)
• 03/18/13 - The Google Graveyard - Leave a flower for a deceased Google product. (www.slate.com/articles/technology/map_of_the_week/2013/03/google_reader_joins_graveyard_of_dead_google_products.html)
• 03/17/13 - MW Vocabulary Quiz - I got 3800. How about you? (www.merriam-webster.com/quiz/index.htm)
• 03/16/13 - Space Jam - The official "Space Jam" website hasn't been changed since 1996. (www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm)
• 03/15/13 - Grammar Girl - Quick and dirty tips for better writing. (grammar.quickanddirtytips.com)
• 03/14/13 - Pi Day - It's Pi Day! (www.piday.org)
• 03/13/13 - South Park Celebrities - Every Celebrity Mocked on South Park Over Its Sixteen Seasons. (www.vulture.com/2013/02/every-celebrity-ever-mocked-on-south-park-over-16-seasons.html)
• 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)
• 03/11/13 - Everything We Know About What Data Brokers Know About You - Data companies are scooping up enormous amounts of information about almost every American. They sell information about whether you're pregnant or divorced or trying to lose weight, about how rich you are and what kinds of cars you have. Here's a look at what we know about the consumer data industry. (www.propublica.org/article/everything-we-know-about-what-data-brokers-know-about-you)
• 03/10/13 - Air Pollution in Asia - Real-time Air Quality Index Visual Map. (aqicn.info/?map)
• 03/09/13 - Planet Universe - Photographs of fire hydrants turned photoshopped into planets. This article has more background info. (planetuniverse.net)
• 03/08/13 - Retro photography from the future: grains, pixels and artifacts - When the hippest trend in photography means going back to the faults and limitations of cameras of the past generation, then how will retro photography look in the year 2040? (www.computernerdfromhell.com/blog/retro-photography-from-the-future)
• 03/07/13 - A Day in the Life - Of a Freelance Journalist. (natethayer.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-freelance-journalist-2013)
• 03/06/13 - From Plinth to Plinth - The Sporting Statues Project. (www.offbeat.group.shef.ac.uk/statues)
• 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)
• 03/04/13 - Floor Plans - Detailed Floor Plan Drawings of Popular TV and Film Homes. (www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/inaki-aliste-lizarralde-tv-floorplans)
• 03/03/13 - Magic Inventors - Brief biographies of magicians from Abbott to Zimmerman. (www.magicnook.com/forum/bioAB.htm)
• 03/02/13 - The Food Film Festival - Taste what you see on the screen. (thefoodfilmfestival.com)
• 03/01/13 - Nebula Award Nominees - The 2013 Nebula Award nomimees are out. (whatever.scalzi.com/2013/02/20/this-years-nebula-award-nominees)

february 2013

• 02/28/13 - The Printed Internet - One man's attempt to recreate the internet. On paper. And publish it on the internet. (printedinternet.tumblr.com)
• 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)
• 02/25/13 - icon monstr - Free simple icons for your next project. (iconmonstr.com)
• 02/24/13 - knob feel - Reviews based purely on the feel of the knob. (www.knobfeel.co.uk)
• 02/23/13 - Blame Nirvana - The 40 Weirdest Post-Nevermind Major Label Albums. (www.spin.com/articles/blame-nirvana-40-weirdest-post-nevermind-major-label-albums)
• 02/22/13 - W3Schools: An Intervention - Are you using? Abusing? We are here to help. (w3fools.com)
• 02/21/13 - Oar Northwest - Ocean Adventure Rowing and Education. (oarnorthwest.com)
• 02/20/13 - 50 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Works - That every socialist should read. (theweeklyansible.tumblr.com/post/20777236577/50-sci-fi-fantasy-works-every-socialist-should-read)
• 02/19/13 - 365 Days of the Black Hero - From Storm on January 1st, to Muhammad Ali on December 31st. (Ok 366) (wardellb.wordpress.com/category/black-hero-sketches)
• 02/18/13 - Geography of Pizza - Which pizza style do you prefer? (geographyofpizza.com)
• 02/17/13 - hadonejob.com - You only had one job! (hadonejob.com)
• 02/16/13 - Photoshop is a city for everyone - How Adobe endlessly rebuilds its classic app. (www.theverge.com/2013/2/13/3959868/photoshop-is-a-city-for-everyone-how-adobe-endlessly-rebuilds-its)
• 02/15/13 - Open Data Field Guide - A comprehensive guide to ensuring your open data program serves you and your citizens. (socrata.com/open-data-field-guide)
• 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)
• 02/13/13 - Visual Capitalist - Leading edge data visualization in business. (visualcapitalist.com)
• 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)
• 02/10/13 - dancefilms.org - The Dance Film Association. (dancefilms.org)
• 02/09/13 - d0x3d - A boardgame designed for informal computer security education. (d0x3d.com)
• 02/08/13 - Frying Pan - Surprisingly Beautiful Portraits of Frying Pan Bottoms (www.flavorwire.com/369391/surprisingly-beautiful-portraits-of-frying-pan-bottoms/view-all)
• 02/07/13 - An Architect Gone Mad - Mysterious Buildings Assembled from Found Photographs by Jim Kazanjian (www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/01/jim-kazanjian)
• 02/06/13 - Visualization - A periodic table of visalization methods. (www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html)
• 02/05/13 - Tintin - Everything you always wanted to know about The Adventures of Tintin. (comicsbeat.com/everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-the-adventures-of-tintin)
• 02/04/13 - PlaceSpeak - A location-based community consultation platform. Claim your place. Speak your mind. Influence the outcome. (placespeak.com)
• 02/03/13 - Pulp-O-Mizer - The customizable pulp magazine generator. (thrilling-tales.webomator.com/derange-o-lab/pulp-o-mizer/pulp-o-mizer.html)
• 02/02/13 - MathOverflow - A place for mathematicians to ask and answer questions. (mathoverflow.net)
• 02/01/13 - The Enterprise Cool Kids - Some of the coolest enterprise startups on the market today. (techcrunch.com/2013/01/27/the-enterprise-cool-kids)

january 2013

• 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)
• 01/30/13 - Open Data 2012 - The Best Open Data Releases of 2012. (www.theatlanticcities.com/technology/2012/12/best-open-data-releases-2012/4200)
• 01/29/13 - actualfacebookgraphsearches.tumblr.com - Actual Facebook Graph Searches (actualfacebookgraphsearches.tumblr.com)
• 01/28/13 - peoplemovin - A beautiful visualization of migration flows. (peoplemov.in)
• 01/27/13 - Where Chefs Eat - A guide to chefs' favourite restaurants. (www.wherechefseat.com)
• 01/26/13 - Redesigning Google - Something strange and remarkable started happening at Google immediately after Larry Page took full control as CEO in 2011: it started designing good-looking apps. (www.theverge.com/2013/1/24/3904134/google-redesign-how-larry-page-engineered-beautiful-revolution)
• 01/25/13 - The Star Wars Saga: Introducing Machete Order - A possible answer to the eternal question: In which order should you watch the Star Wars films? (www.nomachetejuggling.com/2011/11/11/the-star-wars-saga-suggested-viewing-order)
• 01/24/13 - the other class - Creating Equity within the Hidden Curriculum (theotherclass.wordpress.com)
• 01/23/13 - Dungeons & Dragons Classics - Classic D&D, Modern Delivery. Quintessential tomes now available as PDFs. (www.dndclassics.com)
• 01/22/13 - Modern World Lit - World literature in translation. (modernworldlit.com)
• 01/21/13 - Karate Kid - A tribute. (To my 6th birthday party.) (www.buzzfeed.com/mollykateri/a-tribute-to-the-karate-kid-421u)
• 01/20/13 - The Creative Confessional - Seek forgiveness for your creative sins. (thecreativeconfessional.com)
• 01/19/13 - The Southern Ocean Beach Club - The life on a polar research station. 70°40' south, 8°16' we. (antarctic-chef.tumblr.com)
• 01/18/13 - Spring Training Countdown - Helping baseball fans survive tThe Void. (www.springtrainingcountdown.com)
• 01/17/13 - Texts from Superheroes - Saving the world, and conversations. (textsfromsuperheroes.tumblr.com)
• 01/16/13 - Campaign Insider: Best and Worst of 2012 - As the year comes to a close, it's time to take stock of what went well and what went horribly wrong in the art and science of campaigns and elections. (www.campaignsandelections.com/campaign-insider/345952/the-best-and-worst-of-2012.thtml)
• 01/15/13 - Iconnic Art - The 50 most iconic artworks of the past five years according to www.complex.com/art-design/2013/01/the-50-most-iconic-artworks-of-the-past-five-years)
• 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)
• 01/13/13 - mildly interesting - Reddit is full of things that are mildly interesting. (www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting)
• 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)
• 01/11/13 - The lunacy of the long-distance runner - Vomit, bleeding nipples and hallucinations. Why would anyone in their right mind run the Spartathlon? (www.economist.com/news/christmas/21568593-vomit-bleeding-nipples-and-hallucinations-why-would-anyone-their-right-mind-run)
• 01/10/13 - 100 greatest sports photos - Sports Illustrated's 100 greatest sports photographs of all time. (sportsillustrated.cnn.com/specials/100greatestphotos)
• 01/09/13 - The Essential Guide To Dim Sum - Know exactly how to order thanks to this breakdown of 24 dishes, including photos and Chinese pronunciation. (www.buzzfeed.com/luckypeach/the-essential-guide-to-dim-sum)
• 01/08/13 - 64 photographs - By 64 photographers. (www.booooooom.com/2012/12/26/64-photos-by-64-photographers-2012)
• 01/07/13 - Riker Ipsum - When Lorem Ipsum just doesn't make it so. (www.rikeripsum.com)
• 01/06/13 - data trends for 2013 - From sensor journalism to lean government to preemptive health care, 2013 will be interesting. (radar.oreilly.com/2012/12/14-trends-for-2013.html)
• 01/05/13 - Authors choose their favourite short stories - For the past two weeks, the Guardian has run a short story podcast each day. Their contributing authors introduce the stories they have chosen to read. (www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/dec/21/authors-choose-favourite-short-stories)
• 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)
• 01/03/13 - Rock Paper Ink - Inspiration, ideas, & opinions from design fanatics. (rockpaperink.com)
• 01/02/13 - 2012 In Review - 50 wonderful things from the year in pop culture. (www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2013/01/01/168345158/2012-in-review-50-wonderful-things-from-the-year-in-pop-culture)
• 01/01/13 - numberphile - Videos about numbers and stuff. (numberphile.com)

Sun May 19 08:19:13 2013