site of the day archive for august 2012
- 08/31/12 - A/V Geeks Films - Digitize 100 Miles of the AV Geeks films. 16mm at a time. (av-geeks.tumblr.com)
- 08/30/12 - comic book religion - Religion of Comic Book Characters. (comicbookreligion.com)
- 08/29/12 - Sock Covers - Famous album covers recreated with socks. (thesockcovers.tumblr.com)
- 08/28/12 - David Fincher: A Film Title Retrospective - Perhaps no other living director has done as much for the art of the title sequence as David Fincher. The filmmaker's work inarguably helped kickstart the title design renaissance of the 1990s, a revival that the medium still enjoys to this day. (www.artofthetitle.com/feature/david-fincher-a-film-title-retrospective)
- 08/27/12 - The Beauty of Engraving - A gallery of exquisite engraving. (thebeautyofengraving.com)
- 08/26/12 - quotidian - Quotidiana, from the word quotidian, is a website dedicated to the essay. (essays.quotidiana.org)
- 08/25/12 - Passwords Under Assault - Why passwords have never been weaker—and crackers have never been stronger. (arstechnica.com/security/2012/08/passwords-under-assault)
- 08/24/12 - The Mindset List 2016 - The Mindset List was created at Beloit College in 1998 to reflect the world view of entering first year students. It started with the members of the class of 2002, born in 1980. (www.beloit.edu/mindset/2016)
- 08/23/12 - The Information is Beautiful Awards - Celebrating excellence in data visualization and information design. (www.informationisbeautifulawards.com)
- 08/22/12 - Dear Jack - We will change the world. (dearjack.ca)
- 08/21/12 - Scent of a kitten: the 20 irrefutable theories of book cover design - Do you judge a book by its cover? Designers Jon Gray and Jamie Keenan shared their theories on attracting readers – from cute cats to alluring perfume – at the Edinburgh book festival. (www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2012/aug/16/book-cover-theories-edinburgh-festival)
- 08/20/12 - Live or Die on X-Files - Not-Yet-Famous People And Whether They Lived Or Died On "The X-Files" (www.theawl.com/2012/08/live-or-die-on-x-files)
- 08/19/12 - The Kickback Machine - The KickBack Machine is a research tool. It's designed to help artists, creators, and entrepreneurs do their crowdfunding homework. Before you launch your own Kickstarter campaign, it's important to research past projects, so you can understand what works and what doesn't. (www.thekickbackmachine.com)
- 08/18/12 - philm fotos - Photographing stills from famous movies in front of the location where they were shot. (philmfotos.tumblr.com)
- 08/17/12 - Then & Now Photography - A collection of art pieces showcasing Western Wisconsin's historical buildings and monuments, fused with their location as we perceive it today. (thenandnowart.blogspot.ca)
- 08/16/12 - wtfnasa.com - What the f*ck has @NASA done to make your life awesome? (wtfnasa.com)
- 08/15/12 - Politics and the Internet Timeline - Technology is changing politics, government and civic life. This timeline shows the accelerating pace of change in the United States, in the international arena, and online. (techpresident.com/timeline)
- 08/14/12 - Wikipedia Redefined - A creative agency decided to spend two spring months on a project, looking for the ways how to make Wikipedia better, reader or editor friendlier, clearer and aesthetically satisfying. (wikipediaredefined.com)
- 08/13/12 - welkgirls.com - The wunnerful women of the Lawrence Welk Show. (welkgirls.com)
- 08/12/12 - International Insititute for Species Exploration - A very cool initiative of Arizona State University. (species.asu.edu)
- 08/11/12 - Terms of Service; Didn't Read - The statement “I have read and agree with the Terms of Service” is the biggest lie on the web. We aim to fix that. As a crowd initiative, ToS;DR rates the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy of websites and services from a user rights perspective, with labels ranging from a very good class A to a very bad class E. (tos-dr.info)
- 08/10/12 - After 30 Years of Bike/Ped Advocacy - How Far Have We Come? (www.pps.org/after-30-years-of-bikeped-advocacy-how-far-have-we-come)
- 08/09/12 - If Hemingway wrote JavaScript - Recently I had a dream in which I asked Hemingway and four other literary luminaries to write some JavaScript for me; specifically a function that returned a fibonacci series of a given length. Interestingly each author chose to solve the problem in a different way. (byfat.xxx/if-hemingway-wrote-javascript)
- 08/08/12 - fringetastic - Nanaimo's Fringe Theatre Festival. (fringetastic.com)
- 08/07/12 - One Race, Every Medalist Ever - Usain Bolt's 9.63 set an Olympic record in the 100. So how far ahead of every Olympic medalist is he? (www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/08/05/sports/olympics/the-100-meter-dash-one-race-every-medalist-ever.html)
- 08/06/12 - Plankton Chronicles - Videos and photos revealing the beauty and diversity of marine organisms that drift with the currents. (planktonchronicles.org/en)
- 08/05/12 - Yes, I was hacked. Hard - A cautionary tale for the cloud computing age. (www.emptyage.com/post/28679875595/yes-i-was-hacked-hard)
- 08/04/12 - Batman on the Big Screen - Grant Morrison's Guide to Batman on the Big Screen. (www.rollingstone.com/movies/lists/grant-morrison-on-batman-hes-got-everything-20120720)
- 08/03/12 - top ten books - Writers pick their favourite books. (toptenbooks.net)
- 08/02/12 - Off the Map - The castaway's guide to making a home. (www.theawl.com/2012/07/the-castaways-guide-to-making-a-home)
- 08/01/12 - What Vikings really looked like - Were Vikings really dirty savages who wore horned helmets, or did they look like we do today? Here's what the experts say. (sciencenordic.com/what-vikings-really-looked)
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