site of the day archive for may 2014
- 05/31/14 - 25 Popular Business Books - Summarized In One Sentence Each. (www.businessinsider.com/famous-business-book-summaries-2014-5)
- 05/30/14 - shrturl - Faking the web since 1942. (shrturl.co)
- 05/29/14 - yyj rocktographers - The best concert photography in Victoria. (yyjrocktographers.com)
- 05/28/14 - The Mystery of Go - The Ancient Game That Computers Still Can't Win (www.wired.com/2014/05/the-world-of-computer-go)
- 05/27/14 - Open Intro - Free and open-source introductory textbooks. (www.openintro.org)
- 05/26/14 - Is It Better to Rent or Buy? - A clever data visualization from the New York Times. (www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-calculator.html)
- 05/25/14 - 17 people - A modest tribute to-and deconstruction of-my favorite hour of television by Jon White. (seventeenpeople.com)
- 05/24/14 - Pint Sized Parks - An exploration of some of Vancouver Island's lesser-known parks. (pintsizedparks.blogspot.ca)
- 05/23/14 - 50waystogetajob.com - Where are you at in your job search? (50waystogetajob.com)
- 05/22/14 - Canadian Heritage Minutes - A sneak peek at the new Canadian Heritage Minutes. (blog.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/blog/posts/sneak-peek-new-heritage-minutes)
- 05/21/14 - Slightly More Than 100 Fantastic Pieces of Journalism - Some of the best journalism from 2013. (www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/05/slightly-more-than-100-fantastic-pieces-of-journalism/284564)
- 05/20/14 - Cartoon Criminals - Your Favorite Childhood Cartoon Characters Reimagined As Criminals And Demons. (www.boredpanda.com/popped-culture-evil-cartoon-characters-dan-luvisi)
- 05/19/14 - poolside.fm - An infinity pool of 1980s summer sounds. Tune in now, swimwear optional. (poolside.fm)
- 05/18/14 - Data Visualization Checklist - A set of best practices for visually presenting data. (stephanieevergreen.com/dataviz-checklist)
- 05/17/14 - Connectivity - CQ Roll Call's Guide to Building Engaged Communities. (connectivity.cqrollcall.com)
- 05/16/14 - hashtagclimate.org - A platform for change (hashtagclimate.org)
- 05/15/14 - Practical Typography - Butterick's Practical Typography (practicaltypography.com)
- 05/14/14 - GeaCron - World History Maps & Timelines. (geacron.com)
- 05/13/14 - Code Academy - Learn to code interactively, for free. (codecademy.com)
- 05/12/14 - isoscope - An interactive tool that creates aesthetic visuals about locations that are reachable by foot or car in a chosen time from a chosen location. (flaviogortana.com/isoscope)
- 05/11/14 - Spurious Correlations - Discover a new "connection" between highly correlated statistics. (tylervigen.com)
- 05/10/14 - A Subjective Map of New York City - This is a personal map of New York City showing all of our movements during one year. We tracked our location with OpenPaths which is represented in blue and red. The yellow dots are locations where we took photos. All 10,760 datapoints were collected between March 2012 and January 2013. (www.vincentmeertens.com/a-subjective-map-of-new-york-city)
- 05/09/14 - Future Timeline - A projected timeline for our future. (futuretimeline.net)
- 05/08/14 - Chance - A magazine for people interested in the analysis of data. (chance.amstat.org)
- 05/07/14 - QI Infocloud - Quite Interesting facts. (qi.com/infocloud)
- 05/06/14 - Adobe Kuler - Create color schemes with the color wheel or browse thousands of color combinations from the Kuler community. (kuler.adobe.com)
- 05/05/14 - Account Killer - Instructions to remove your account or public profile on most popular websites. (accountkiller.com)
- 05/04/14 - Online Etymology Dictionary - Etymologies are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant 600 or 2,000 years ago. Think of it as looking at pictures of your friends' parents when they were your age. People will continue to use words as they will, finding wider meanings for old words and coining new ones to fit new situations. In fact, this list is a testimony to that process. (etymonline.com)
- 05/03/14 - Fake Name Generator - For when you need to quickly generate a plausible fake identity online. (fakenamegenerator.com)
- 05/02/14 - Strava Heatlabs - A heatmap visualization of 77,688,848 bike rides and 19,660,163 runs representing about 220 billion total data points. (labs.strava.com/heatmap)
- 05/01/14 - Literally - This Chrome plugin replaces the word 'literally' with 'figuratively'. That's literally all it does. (chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/literally/odlbpehkpefnmehgdofblnagjpimaanh)
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