site of the day archive for september 2011
- 09/30/11 - Place Pulse - An MIT Media Lab project that allows anybody to quickly run a perception study and visualize the results in powerful ways. (pulse.media.mit.edu)
- 09/29/11 - FLOWCHART: Navigating NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books - This flowchart is designed to help you follow your tastes, provide context, and fulfill (indeed exceed!) any need for pithy commentary you might harbor. (www.sfsignal.com/archives/2011/09/flowchart-for-navigating-nprs-top-100-sff-books)
- 09/28/11 - The Top 10 Books Lost to Time - Great written works from authors such as Shakespeare and Jane Austen that you'll never have a chance to read. (www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/The-Top-10-Books-Lost-to-Time.html?c=y&story=fullstory)
- 09/27/11 - Teledraw - A drawn game of broken telephone. (www.teledraw.com)
- 09/26/11 - Morskoiboy - A machine that converts words into cocktails. Now I can literally taste the flavour of my words. (www.morskoiboy.com)
- 09/25/11 - Radiolab - An Appreciation by Ira Glass. (transom.org/?p=20139)
- 09/24/11 - Straigh Razor Place - The original shaving forum. (straightrazorplace.com)
- 09/23/11 - /exhibit/inform - Inform#Turning data into meaning, and exhibit of the Adobe Museum of Digital Media. (adobemuseum.com/)
- 09/22/11 - Things Could Be Worse - A tragedy webcomic series. (tragedyseries.tumblr.com)
- 09/21/11 - Things Apple is Worth More Than - Apple's market cap is now $340 billion. What's littler? (thingsappleisworthmorethan.tumblr.com)
- 09/20/11 - Postmodernism - From the cutting edge to the museum. (www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/sep/15/postmodernism-cutting-edge-to-museum)
- 09/19/11 - Archie Out of Context - Everything is funnier void of context... especially the citizens of Riverdale. (archieoutofcontext.tumblr.com)
- 09/18/11 - The Atlantic Cities - A new site by The Atlantic focused on cities. (www.theatlanticcities.com)
- 09/17/11 - Extreme Tidying Up - The art of the totally derangedly tidy artist Ursus Wehrli. (www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/09/12/140394807/extreme-tidying-up)
- 09/16/11 - Nerdy Day Trips - A user generated map of nerdy day trips, from Sea Forts to abandoned nuclear bunkers, dead victorian racecourses, roads that are falling into the ground, narrow gauge railways that take you to a power station, wherever. (www.nerdydaytrips.com)
- 09/15/11 - Real World CSS Practices - A great set of CSS tips, tricks, and best practices. (blog.echoenduring.com/2011/08/19/real-world-css-practices)
- 09/14/11 - We Make the Road by Walking - Two brothers set out to walk the route of California's proposed high-speed rail line. (wemaketheroadbywalking.com)
- 09/13/11 - Original Pronunciation - English language texts in period speech. (originalpronunciation.com)
- 09/12/11 - 40 noises - 40 noises that build pop music. (wordmagazine.co.uk/40noises)
- 09/11/11 - words you should know - 10 insulting words you should know. (www.neatorama.com/2008/05/03/10-insulting-words-you-should-know)
- 09/10/11 - why the nose - Photos of people wearing clown noses. (whythenose.com)
- 09/09/11 - Top Score - NPR's in-depth look at video game music. (minnesota.publicradio.org/radio/programs/top-score)
- 09/08/11 - primers on culture - (Almost) everything you need to know about culture in 10 books. (www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/06/13/10-primers-on-culture)
- 09/07/11 - Intercontinental Ballistic Microfinance - What happens when 620,000 lenders fund 615,000 entrepreneurs, students, and other microfinance borrowers around the world? Five+ years of Kiva loan activity, in full color. Thanks to all the lenders, borrowers, partners, and team members who brightened this map - and helped to change lives in the process. (vimeo.com/28413747)
- 09/06/11 - Time Lapse Hubble - Incredible time-lapse videos from the Hubble Space Telescope. (gizmodo.com/5836582/these-unprecedented-hubble-movies-just-left-me-speechless)
- 09/05/11 - Time - Ten things everyone should know about time. (blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2011/09/01/ten-things-everyone-should-know-about-time)
- 09/04/11 - Let's Get Critical - A hand-picked site of cultural criticism, essays and reviews. (www.letsgetcritical.org)
- 09/03/11 - Post-it War - A Post-it note art war. (www.postitwar.com)
- 09/02/11 - How old is your globe? - Use the chart to determine the age of your globe. (replogleglobes.com/howOldIsYourGlobe.php)
- 09/01/11 - 100 years of style - 100 years of East London style in 100 seconds. Sept 13th 1911 - Sept 13th 2011. (www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JxfgId3XTs)
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