site of the day archive for november 2014
- 11/30/14 - The Secret Life of a Crime Scene Cleaner - How a transgender Australian found her niche cleaning up after murders, suicides, and unimaginable filth of endless variation. (narrative.ly/stories/the-secret-life-of-a-crime-scene-cleaner)
- 11/29/14 - The FiveThirtyEight 2014 Holiday Gift Guide - Still pondering exactly what to get the data lover in your life? You've come to the right place. (fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-fivethirtyeight-2014-holiday-gift-guide)
- 11/28/14 - Adventure Time Forum - The Leading Journal of Adventure Time Research, Commentary, and Analysis. (adventuretimeforum.com)
- 11/27/14 - Ferguson National Response Network - Listing of planned responses around the country to the Darren Wilson Grand Jury Decision. (fergusonresponse.tumblr.com)
- 11/26/14 - The Best Children's Books of 2014 - Intelligent and imaginative tales of love, loneliness, loyalty, loss, friendship, and everything in between. (www.brainpickings.org/2014/11/18/best-childrens-books-2014)
- 11/25/14 - disapproval look - A collection of faces, smilies and emoji in plain text, jpg, png and animated gif format. (disapprovallook.com)
- 11/24/14 - Deep Visual-Semantic Alignments for Generating Image Descriptions - Software that automatically generates sentence descriptions from images. (cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/deepimagesent)
- 11/23/14 - UX Crash Course - 31 essentials of UX design. (thehipperelement.com/post/75476711614/ux-crash-course-31-fundamentals)
- 11/22/14 - Seril Charts - Charts for People Obsessed with Serial (www.thebolditalic.com/articles/6330-charts-for-people-obsessed-with-serial)
- 11/21/14 - Institute for the Future - Making the future with foresight. (www.iftf.org/home)
- 11/20/14 - The United States of Thanksgiving - We've scoured the nation for recipes that evoke each of the 50 states (and D.C. and Puerto Rico). These are our picks for the feast. Dig in, then tell us yours. (www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/11/18/dining/thanksgiving-recipes-across-the-united-states.html)
- 11/19/14 - A/B Testing - As Explained with Animated GIFs (www.shareprogress.org/blog/ab-testing-explained-animated-gifs)
- 11/18/14 - What does Google know? - 6 links that will show you what Google knows about you (medium.com/productivity-in-the-cloud/6-links-that-will-show-you-what-google-knows-about-you-f39b8af9decc)
- 11/17/14 - Linguistic Family Tree - A comprehensive overlook of the Nordic languages in their Old World language families. (mentalfloss.com/article/59665/feast-your-eyes-beautiful-linguistic-family-tree)
- 11/16/14 - Second Languages - The Second Languages Of Every Part Of The World In One Incredible Infographic (uk.businessinsider.com/the-second-languages-in-every-part-of-the-world-infographic-2014-10)
- 11/15/14 - Nonprofit Compensation - 32 Theses About Nonprofit Compensation (jstahl.org/archives/2014/11/11/32-theses-about-nonprofit-compensation)
- 11/14/14 - Remarkables - Tracking what I call 'remarkables'--online campaigns worthy of being remarked upon. These are mostly by NGOs, but there's occasional for-profit or institutional work as well. (www.pinterest.com/darrenbarefoot/remarkables)
- 11/13/14 - By Hearh - A series in which authors share and discuss their all-time favorite passages in literature. (www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/category/by-heart)
- 11/12/14 - The Curse of the Diaeresis - The special tool we use here at The New Yorker for punching out the two dots that we then center carefully over the second vowel in such words as "naïv" and "Laocoö" will be getting a workout this year, as the Democrats coöperate to reëlect the President. (www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-the-diaeresis)
- 11/11/14 - Midterm Maps - The Most Detailed Maps You'll See From the Midterm Elections (www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/11/04/upshot/senate-maps.html)
- 11/10/14 - Ovie Titles - An artist removes a single letter from the title of a movie and illustrates the result. (twistedsifter.com/2014/11/austin-light-illustrates-movie-titles-with-one-letter-removed)
- 11/09/14 - Nature is Speaking - Nature doesn't need people. People need nature. (natureisspeaking.org)
- 11/08/14 - Civic Hall - A New Home for Civic Tech (civichall.org)
- 11/07/14 - Bad Online Donation Forms - The best in bad ways to raise money on the web. (baddonationforms.tumblr.com)
- 11/06/14 - The Living New Deal - A map showing the 7,642 airports, schools, hospitals, post offices, art and highways still in use 75 years after they were built. (livingnewdeal.org/map)
- 11/05/14 - Inspirograph - A digital replica of the classic Spirograph toy. Written in TypeScript, using D3.js. (nathanfriend.com/inspirograph)
- 11/04/14 - Trash Talking - The NBA Fan's Guide to Talking Trash During Pickup Basketball (grantland.com/the-triangle/the-nba-fans-guide-to-talking-trash-during-pickup-basketball)
- 11/03/14 - The Cost of Connectivity 2014 - Data and analysis on broadband offerings in 24 cities across the world (www.newamerica.org/oti/the-cost-of-connectivity-2014)
- 11/02/14 - GOTV Resources Guide - For all my political friends: a collection of tools to help Get Out The Vote. (thecampaignworkshop.com/gotv-resources-guide)
- 11/01/14 - True Stuff - The Art of Letter Writing. (wondermark.com/true-stuff-letter-writing)
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