- 01/31/12 - Low-Commitment Projects - Making stuff happen with little time and energy. (lowcommitmentprojects.com)
- 01/30/12 - Transportation Library Menu Collection - The Menu Collection of the Northwestern University Transportation Library currently includes more than 400 menus from 54 national and international airline carriers, cruise ships, and railroad companies, with coverage from 1929 to the present. (digital.library.northwestern.edu/transportation-menus)
- 01/29/12 - Smother Goose - A treasury of traumatic children's tales. (www.smothergoose.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)
- 01/27/12 - cartophile - A blog about beautiful maps and things. (cartophile.tumblr.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)
- 01/25/12 - 5 things I learned today - Pulled together from many places, of many interests, of many purposes and of many ideas, this is a stream of stuff. (5thingsilearnedtoday.com)
- 01/24/12 - one hour per second - Every second one hour of video is uploaded to YouTube. Let's visualize what that looks like. (www.onehourpersecond.com)
- 01/23/12 - Happy New Year! - Today is the first day of the Year of the Dragon. (chinapage.com/newyear.html)
- 01/22/12 - The Lord of the Rings Project - An attempt to place every character in J.R.R. Tolkien's fictional universe in a family tree. (lotrproject.com)
- 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)
- 01/20/12 - Mapstalgia - Video game maps drawn from memory. (mapstalgia.tumblr.com)
- 01/19/12 - Game Theory 101 - Game theory made easy. (gametheory101.com)
- 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)
- 01/17/12 - Number a Day - Every working day, a number and a selection of that number's properties. (maanumberaday.blogspot.com)
- 01/16/12 - noircast - All things noir. (noircast.net)
- 01/15/12 - Clipart Covers - Classic album covers remade with clipart and comic sans. (clipartcovers.tumblr.com)
- 01/14/12 - Everyday Names - 25 everyday things you never knew had names. (www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/25-everyday-things-you-never-knew-had-names)
- 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)
- 01/11/12 - The Shortest Fiction - Step one — pick a photo. Step two — write an ultra short story, under 300 words, inspired by that photo. (theshortestfiction.com)
- 01/10/12 - The Comic Sans Project - Defenders of #ComicSans, replacing "inferior" fonts at the frontier of design. (comicsansproject.tumblr.com)
- 01/09/12 - From the Archives - The Guggenheim museum has published its archive of catalogues dating back to 1937 online. (www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/publications/from-the-archives)
- 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)
- 01/07/12 - six words - The Six-Word Memoir of the Day. (www.smithmag.net/sixwords)
- 01/06/12 - The Written World - Today is the final episode in the great In Our Time series on the history of writing. (www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018wfsc)
- 01/05/12 - Socially Awkward Penguin - I present to you the socially awkward penguin meme. (www.quickmeme.com/Socially-Awkward-Penguin)
- 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)
- 01/03/12 - Top Ten Science Blog Posts of 2011 - From the Smithsonian Institute. (blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2011/12/top-ten-science-blog-posts-of-2011)
- 01/02/12 - The Best And Worst Of Everything In 2011 - A Mega, Meta Mashup. (www.fastcompany.com/1801868/a-mega-meta-mash-up-of-the-best-and-worst-of-2011)
- 01/01/12 - six words - In six words, how would you describe 2011? (minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/todays-question/archive/2011/12/in-six-words-how-would-you-describe-2011.shtml)
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