Check back here every day for a new site of the day. Sometimes funny,
sometimes useful, always new, every day at midnight. Email sotd@someonewhocares.org
if you know of a site
that should be added.
05/17/12 - fat fonts - Fonts where the amount of ink/pixels for each number is in direct proportion to its value. (fatfonts.org)
05/16/12 - Math Exchange - A collaboratively edited question and answer site for people studying math at any level and professionals in related fields. (math.stackexchange.com)
05/13/12 - recursive drawing - An exploration of user interface ideas towards the development of a spatially-oriented programming environment. (recursivedrawing.com)
05/11/12 - supercut.org - noun \ˈsü-pər-kət\ — A fast-paced montage of short video clips that obsessively isolates a single element from its source, usually a word, phrase, or cliche from film and TV. Supercut.org collects every known example of the video remix meme. (supercut.org)
05/05/12 - Collusion - Collusion is an experimental add-on for Firefox and allows you to see all the third parties that are tracking your movements across the Web. It will show, in real time, how that data creates a spider-web of interaction between companies and other trackers. (www.mozilla.org/en-US/collusion)
05/04/12 - Jane's Walk - Jane's Walk celebrates the ideas and legacy of urbanist Jane Jacobs by getting people out exploring their neighbourhoods and meeting their neighbours. Free walking tours held on the first weekend of May each year are led by locals who want to create a space for residents to talk about what matters to them in the places they live and work. Since its inception in Toronto in 2007, Jane's Walk has expanded rapidly. In May of 2011, 511 walks were held in 75 cities in 15 countries worldwide. (janeswalk.net)
04/17/12 - National Volunteer Week - 13.3 million Canadians will volunteer over 2 billion hours of their time to make the world a better place. What are you doing to celebrate your volunteers? (nationalvolunteerweek.ca)
04/16/12 - The Listserve - What would you say to 1 million people? Each day, one person is randomly selected to write one e-mail to the growing list. That's the only e-mail allowed to be sent to The Listserve. (thelistserve.com)
04/14/12 - Tiny Transactions on Computer Science - Papers describing significant research contributions to the field of computer science. Submissions can be up to 140 characters in length, with an abstract of no more than 250 words and a title of no more than 118 characters. (tinytocs.org)
04/01/12 - The Tricorder Project - The Tricorder project aims to develop handheld devices that can sense a diverse array of phenomena that we can't normally see, and intuitively visualize them so we might see temperature or magnetism or pressure as naturally as we see colour. (tricorderproject.org)
03/30/12 - wind map - This map shows you the delicate tracery of wind flowing over the US right now. (hint.fm/wind)
03/29/12 - The Rosetta Project - A global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers working to build a publicly accessible digital library of human languages. (rosettaproject.org)
03/13/12 - B to the F - A page by page review of the insane novelization of Back to the Future (published before the movie was released). (btothef.tumblr.com)
02/25/12 - The Naked Scientists - The Naked Scientists are a media-savvy group of physicians and researchers from Cambridge University who use radio, live lectures, and the Internet to strip science down to its bare essentials, and promote it to the general public. (www.thenakedscientists.com)
02/11/12 - The Composites - Images created using law enforcement composite sketch software and descriptions of literary characters. (thecomposites.tumblr.com)
02/06/12 - PhyloPic - Free silhouette images of animals, plants, and other life forms. (phylopic.org)
02/05/12 - The Dungeon Dozen - Flavor-rich yet detail-free idea stimulation for fantasy RPGs in the form of random tables for the underused 12-sided die. (roll1d12.blogspot.com)
01/28/12 - Lists of Note - Lists are created, and have been for many centuries, for all manner of reasons. It's my aim to feature some of the most notable examples right here. (www.listsofnote.com)
01/26/12 - Third Coast Audio Festival - Since 2000, the TCF has celebrated and supported producers and other artists making compelling, relevant, and innovative audio documentary work of all styles; and has worked to bring this fresh and vital work to audiences throughout the world. (thirdcoastfestival.org)
01/21/12 - Star Wars Uncut: The Director's Cut - In 2009, thousands of Internet users were asked to remake "Star Wars: A New Hope" into a fan film, 15 seconds at a time. Contributors were allowed to recreate scenes from Star Wars however they wanted. Finally, the crowd-sourced project has been stitched together and put online for your streaming pleasure. The "Director's Cut" is a feature-length film that contains hand-picked scenes from the entire StarWarsUncut.com collection. (www.starwarsuncut.com/watch)
01/18/12 - SOPA Blackout - Imagine a World Without Free Knowledge. For over a decade, we have spent millions of hours building the largest encyclopedia in human history. Right now, the U.S. Congress is considering legislation that could fatally damage the free and open internet. For 24 hours, to raise awareness, we are blacking out Wikipedia. (wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/SOPA/Blackoutpage)
01/13/12 - Sorry World from Canada - We messed up. We goofed. We took our stick off the ice. We pulled a real boner. For that we apologize. But, hey. 2015 is just around the corner. Hopefully, we've learned our lesson, and we'll do better next time. (sorryworld.ca)
01/12/12 - open.nasa.gov - Acollaborative platform for NASA and the open government community to share success stories and projects they are working on. The content on this site is written by NASA employees and contractors across the agency. (open.nasa.gov)
01/08/12 - wordandphrase.info - Find the frequency of each word, phrase, and synonym in different kinds of American English -- spoken, fiction, magazines, newspapers, and academic writing. (www.wordandphrase.info)
01/04/12 - Connections - The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Connections invites its diverse staff to offer their personal perspectives on works of art in the Museum's vast collection. Their voices range from the authoritative to the highly subjective, and touch upon any number of themes and concepts. (www.metmuseum.org/connections)
