site of the day archive for march 2013
- 03/31/13 - recalling 1993 - Hear what every neighborhood was like 20 years ago from any pay phone in Manhattan. (recalling1993.com)
- 03/30/13 - Center for Evaluation Innovation - Pushing evaluation practice in new directions and into new arenas. (evaluationinnovation.org)
- 03/29/13 - Introducing MyCityHall.ca - A platform for citizens to track, learn about, and influence the decisions of their city council. (blog.opennorth.ca/2013/02/19/introducing-mycityhall)
- 03/28/13 - forecast.io - A new full-featured weather service from scratch, complete with 7-day forecasts that cover the whole world, beautiful weather visualizations, and a time machine for exploring the weather in the past and far future. (forecast.io)
- 03/27/13 - Our Incredible Journey - Cataloging the thrilling opportunities start-ups are offered when their incredible journey continues by being bought by an exciting company. (ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com)
- 03/26/13 - Time's 140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2013 - Every year, TIME recognizes those who exemplify the very best wit and wisdom Twitter has to offer. Here are the 140 feeds that inspire us to laugh, learn or shake our heads in wonderment. (techland.time.com/2013/03/25/140-best-twitter-feeds-of-2013/slide/all)
- 03/25/13 - Portraits of Refugees - Posing With Their Most Valued Possessions. (www.petapixel.com/2013/03/21/portraits-of-refugees-posing-with-their-most-valued-possessions)
- 03/24/13 - Thank the Academy - A visualization of how Oscar winners express gratitude. (rebeccarolfe.com/projects/thanktheacademy)
- 03/23/13 - Swedish Mannequins - The real story behind the Swedish mannequins that looked like "real women". (www.swedishmannequins.com)
- 03/22/13 - Tough Critics - A video series starring Elisabeth, Onaje and Will -- three fifth-graders from the Little Red School House in Greenwich Village. In each episode, the trio of burgeoning music critics takes on a new release -- and they don't pull any punches. (soundcheck.wnyc.org/series/tough-critics)
- 03/21/13 - 10 Illuminating Fan Letters To Famous Authors - From famous authors. (flavorwire.com/377707/10-illuminating-fan-letters-from-famous-authors-to-famous-authors)
- 03/20/13 - Cleveland Memory Project - A look at Cleveland History. (clevelandmemory.org)
- 03/19/13 - Letters From a Private - My Uncle Bruce was in the army in 1944-45. He wrote home almost every day. These are his letters. (lettersfromaprivate.wordpress.com)
- 03/18/13 - The Google Graveyard - Leave a flower for a deceased Google product. (www.slate.com/articles/technology/map_of_the_week/2013/03/google_reader_joins_graveyard_of_dead_google_products.html)
- 03/17/13 - MW Vocabulary Quiz - I got 3800. How about you? (www.merriam-webster.com/quiz/index.htm)
- 03/16/13 - Space Jam - The official "Space Jam" website hasn't been changed since 1996. (www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm)
- 03/15/13 - Grammar Girl - Quick and dirty tips for better writing. (grammar.quickanddirtytips.com)
- 03/14/13 - Pi Day - It's Pi Day! (www.piday.org)
- 03/13/13 - South Park Celebrities - Every Celebrity Mocked on South Park Over Its Sixteen Seasons. (www.vulture.com/2013/02/every-celebrity-ever-mocked-on-south-park-over-16-seasons.html)
- 03/12/13 - The Aleph: Infinite Wonder / Infinite Pity - The Aleph is a short story by Jorge Luis Borges in which a man is suddenly able to see all things at once. I wanted to present a version of what The Aleph might look like now, designed as an endless stream of descriptive passages pulled from the web. (hirmes.com/aleph)
- 03/11/13 - Everything We Know About What Data Brokers Know About You - Data companies are scooping up enormous amounts of information about almost every American. They sell information about whether you're pregnant or divorced or trying to lose weight, about how rich you are and what kinds of cars you have. Here's a look at what we know about the consumer data industry. (www.propublica.org/article/everything-we-know-about-what-data-brokers-know-about-you)
- 03/10/13 - Air Pollution in Asia - Real-time Air Quality Index Visual Map. (aqicn.info/?map)
- 03/09/13 - Planet Universe - Photographs of fire hydrants turned photoshopped into planets. This article has more background info. (planetuniverse.net)
- 03/08/13 - Retro photography from the future: grains, pixels and artifacts - When the hippest trend in photography means going back to the faults and limitations of cameras of the past generation, then how will retro photography look in the year 2040? (www.computernerdfromhell.com/blog/retro-photography-from-the-future)
- 03/07/13 - A Day in the Life - Of a Freelance Journalist. (natethayer.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-freelance-journalist-2013)
- 03/06/13 - From Plinth to Plinth - The Sporting Statues Project. (www.offbeat.group.shef.ac.uk/statues)
- 03/05/13 - What Coke Contains - The Vons grocery store two miles from my home in Los Angeles, California sells 12 cans of Coca-Cola for $6.59 - 54 cents each. The tool chain that created this simple product is incomprehensibly complex. (medium.com/the-ingredients-2/221d449929ef)
- 03/04/13 - Floor Plans - Detailed Floor Plan Drawings of Popular TV and Film Homes. (www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/inaki-aliste-lizarralde-tv-floorplans)
- 03/03/13 - Magic Inventors - Brief biographies of magicians from Abbott to Zimmerman. (www.magicnook.com/forum/bioAB.htm)
- 03/02/13 - The Food Film Festival - Taste what you see on the screen. (thefoodfilmfestival.com)
- 03/01/13 - Nebula Award Nominees - The 2013 Nebula Award nomimees are out. (whatever.scalzi.com/2013/02/20/this-years-nebula-award-nominees)
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