site of the day archive for december 2012
- 12/31/12 - Wiki 2012 - The most viewed articles on Wikipedia 2012 in various languages. (toolserver.org/~johang/2012.html)
- 12/30/12 - Solve your first-world problems - Need a first-world problem solved? Silicon Valley has got you covered. (www.firstworldproblems.biz)
- 12/29/12 - lists - The Hundred Best Lists of All Time. (www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/shouts/2012/12/the-hundred-best-lists-of-all-time.html)
- 12/28/12 - Year End Lists - All in one place: notable, searchable lists of the year's best music, movies, and books. End-of-year lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, no tallies. (yearendlists.com)
- 12/27/12 - This is Why I'm Broke - The Internet's mall. (www.thisiswhyimbroke.com)
- 12/26/12 - 100 Riffs - A Brief History of Rock N' Roll. (www.soundslice.com/yt/xiC__IjCa2s)
- 12/25/12 - Diagnosing the Home Alone burglars' injuries: A professional weighs in - Ever wondered what a blow torch to the head would actually do? Read on. (theweek.com/article/index/238037/diagnosing-the-home-alone-burglars-injuries-a-professional-weighs-in)
- 12/24/12 - Maker's Row - Our mission is to make the manufacturing process simple to understand and easy to access. From large corporations to first time designers, we are providing unparalleled access to industry-specific factories and suppliers across the United States. (makersrow.com)
- 12/23/12 - Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek - A feature in the New York Times that also happens to be an incredible tech demo of what HTML 5 can do. (www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall)
- 12/22/12 - Bike Score Expands to 25 U.S. Cities - How bikeable is your office? School? Home? Hotel? If you live, work or play in any of these US cities, you can now find a Bike Score for anywhere inside the city limits. (blog.walkscore.com/2012/12/bike-score-expands-to-25-cities)
- 12/21/12 - The 50 Worst Columns of 2012 - The most noxious, wrongheaded, misleading, silly, and downright awful columns to somehow end up in print or online in 2012. (www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/12/worst-columns-2012/59720)
- 12/20/12 - The Best Astronomy Images of 2012 - The Universe is beautiful. (www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/bad_astronomy/2012/12/best_astronomy_images_2012_see_the_most_beautiful_images_of_the_universe.single.html)
- 12/19/12 - The best (and worst) media errors and corrections of 2012 - It's been a tough year. (www.poynter.org/latest-news/regret-the-error/197279/the-best-and-worst-media-errors-and-corrections-of-2012)
- 12/18/12 - Art of Drink - Cocktails, their recipes and history. (www.artofdrink.com)
- 12/17/12 - The Urban Etiquette Handbook - New rules for getting along in an endlessly wired, ruthlessly crowded, sexually libertarian city. (nymag.com/guides/etiquette/17332)
- 12/16/12 - Danish Numbers - Danish has a rather weird number system. Very weird. (www.olestig.dk/dansk/numbers.html)
- 12/15/12 - Easy Stats - Easy Stats gives you quick and easy access to selected statistics collected by the U.S. Census Bureau through the American Community Survey. With the American Community Survey, every community, every year receives detailed statistics about their people and their homes. (www.census.gov/easystats)
- 12/14/12 - Most Retweeted Tweets Of The Media - According to the Twitter analytics website Favstar, these are the most retweeted tweets of some of the biggest news organizations. (www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/a-brief-history-in-tweeting-the-medias-top-tweet)
- 12/13/12 - Google's Zeitgeist 2012 - See how the world searched in 2012. (www.google.com/zeitgeist/2012)
- 12/12/12 - Obama: The first meme president - Roosevelt had the radio. Kennedy had television. Barack Obama, as it turned out, had memes. (www.mercurynews.com/politics-national/2012/10/obama-the-first-meme-president)
- 12/11/12 - Focal Point: Intelligent Cropping of Responsive Images - A fascinating little framework that allows you to not only automatically resize your images when the viewport changes, but also crop the images with a specific important focal point in mind. Amazingly enough, it does all this with pure CSS. (designshack.net/articles/css/focal-point-intelligent-cropping-of-responsive-images)
- 12/10/12 - Ada Lovelace - Happy Birthday to Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer. (cssu-bg.org/WomenInCS/ada_lovelace.php)
- 12/09/12 - Meet the Coolest Mayor in the World - Meet Jon Gnarr, mayor of Reykjavik, Iceland’s largest (and coolest) city. (www.messynessychic.com/2012/11/28/meet-the-coolest-mayor-in-the-world)
- 12/08/12 - 2 Good 2 Be 4Gotten - An Oral History of Freaks and Geeks. (www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2013/01/freaks-and-geeks-oral-history)
- 12/07/12 - Stopping the Dead - A graphical statistical look back at the Walking Dead series so far. (news.nationalpost.com/2012/12/05/graphic-stopping-the-dead-a-statistical-look-back-at-the-walking-dead-series-so-far)
- 12/06/12 - Atari Teenage Riot - The Inside Story Of Pong And The Video Game Industry's Big Bang (www.buzzfeed.com/chrisstokelwalker/atari-teenage-riot-the-inside-story-of-pong-and-t)
- 12/05/12 - A Lackadaisical Lexicon for Laggard Logophiles - Here is a messy and informal athenaeum where 'interesting' words get 2 minutes of fame. You are welcome to criticise, compliment or contribute. Long live logolepsy. (victoriousvocabulary.tumblr.com)
- 12/04/12 - A Visual Timeline of the Future Based on Famous Fiction - Proof that in the year 802701, the world will still exist. (www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/11/21/giorgia-lupi-future-timeline)
- 12/03/12 - the beat - Instagram photos mashed up with Google street views of what's around them. (sm.rutgers.edu/thebeat)
- 12/02/12 - Kelekis - Today the Kelekis Family announced that their family restaurant will be closing as of January 30th, 2013. (kelekisrestaurant.com)
- 12/01/12 - You Are What You Eat - What's in your fridge? (markmenjivar.com//projects/you_are_what_you_eat)
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