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sometimes useful, always new, every day at midnight. Email sotd@someonewhocares.org
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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)
12/27/11 - Philosophy is the Kevin Bacon of Wikipedia - Add one or more comma-separated Wikipedia article titles and watch as the visualization plots a course to the entry for "Philosophy" by clicking the first link in each article. (xefer.com/wikipedia)
12/21/11 - flowing data - Explores how designers, statisticians, and computer scientists are using data to understand ourselves better - mainly through data visualization. (flowingdata.com)
12/11/11 - Victoria Hugos - The Hugo Awards are given to the best science fiction or fantasy works of the previous year. Unfortunately, they've only been awarded since 1953. That's where this column comes in — Jess Nevins will be awarding honorary Hugo Awards to the best novels of the Victorian era... and beyond. (io9.com/Victorian-hugos)
12/05/11 - I am Your Body - Your body organs talk to you and explain their function in simple easy to understand detail. Based on the world famous articles by Dr. J.D. Ratcliff "I Am Joe's Body" (www.ue.net/body-eng)
12/01/11 - girl walk // all day - A feature-length dance music video and tale of urban exploration that follows three dancers across New York City to the music of Girl Talk. (girlwalkallday.com)
11/27/11 - Month in Music - What happened when I listened to every song I owned, non-stop. 10,513 MP3s = 30 days of continuous audio. (monthinmusic.tumblr.com)
11/14/11 - Shape Catcher - A very cool Unicode character recognition tool. Draw something freehand in the box, and Shape Catcher will find a unicode character close to it. (shapecatcher.com)
11/08/11 - Beautiful Type - A patchwork of photos and illustrations from the Web, discovered overnight and all having a relationship with typography. (beautifultype.net)
11/06/11 - Asymptote - Asymptote is an exciting new international journal dedicated to literary translation and bringing together in one place the best in contemporary writing. (asymptotejournal.com)
