site of the day archive for september 2014
- 09/30/14 - Springfield at Night - Illustrations of Simpsons locales at night. (badtvblog.tumblr.com/post/98338731829/romansva-unreal-estate-by-tim-doyle)
- 09/29/14 - Five Song Fridays - Every Friday, five songs will be handpicked by me and a few special guests and recommended to you, with links to buy the tracks right from your inbox. (tinyletter.com/songexploder)
- 09/28/14 - Testing Benford's Law - Imagine a large dataset, say something like a list of every country and its population. Chances are, the leading digit will be a 1 more often than a 2. And 2s would probably occur more often than 3s, and so on. This odd phenomenon is Benford's Law. (testingbenfordslaw.com)
- 09/27/14 - stuff in old books - We own a 2nd hand bookshop in West End, Brisbane, Australia. Sometimes we find cool stuff in the books we buy. (stuffinoldbooks.tumblr.com)
- 09/26/14 - Flotsam General Store - A Post-Structural Online Shopping Experience. (www.flotsamgeneralstore.com)
- 09/25/14 - Serial - A new podcast from the creators of This American Life, hosted by Sarah Koenig. Serial will follow one story - a true story - over the course of a whole season. (serialpodcast.org)
- 09/24/14 - Canada's NDP Part One: 2010 - 2012 - A reflection by Benjamin Dickerson. (foxdickerson.com/newave_portfolio/ndp1)
- 09/23/14 - Chart-Topping Songs - 100 chart toppers in chart form. (flowingdata.com/chart-topping-songs-as-graphs-and-diagrams)
- 09/22/14 - European Separatists - What Europe Would Look Like If All the Separatist Movements Got Their Way (www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2014/09/18/map_what_europe_would_look_like_if_all_the_separatist_movements_got_their.html)
- 09/21/14 - Explaining the Midwest - 41 maps (and charts) that explain the Midwest (www.vox.com/2014/9/15/6111911/41-maps-and-charts-that-explain-the-midwest)
- 09/20/14 - Tweet-a-Program - Compose a tweet-length Wolfram Language program, and tweet it to @WolframTaP. Our Twitter bot will run your program in the Wolfram Cloud and tweet back the result. (blog.wolfram.com/2014/09/18/introducing-tweet-a-program)
- 09/19/14 - 826 national - 826 National is a nonprofit organization that provides strategic leadership, administration, and other resources to ensure the success of its network of eight writing and tutoring centers. They do this at the Bigfoot Research Center, the Boring (not a spy) Store, the Time Travel Mart, the Liberty Street Robot Supply and Repair, the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co., the Greenwood Space Travel Supply Co., and the Pirate Supply Store. (826national.org)
- 09/18/14 - How to Decorate a Man Room - But don't think the entire castle has to be developed at once. In interior design, like any creative project, it's good to start small. Baby steps. Manly baby steps. (www.artofmanliness.com/2011/08/19/how-to-decorate-a-man-room)
- 09/17/14 - Elect Dough Ford - All of the reasons to elect Doug Ford. (electdougford.com)
- 09/16/14 - The BĂzier Game - A game to help you master the BĂ©ziercurve. (bezier.method.ac)
- 09/15/14 - West Wing Characters - A Definitive Ranking of Every Character on 'The West Wing' (www.thewire.com/entertainment/2014/09/a-definitive-ranking-of-every-character-on-the-west-wing/380098)
- 09/14/14 - Birds and Climate Change - Visualization of the climate change impacts on the ranges of birds. (www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/09/08/us/climate-change-could-push-birds-north-shrink-their-ranges.html)
- 09/13/14 - The Internet Slowdown - Powerful infographics from the September 10th Internet Slowdown. (battleforthenet.com/sept10th)
- 09/12/14 - A crash course in the Peterborough music scene - Every night, in friendly little hippy bars and sketchy rock clubs with weird-smelling bathrooms; in coffee shops and on theatre stages, exciting things are happening in downtown Peterborough. Live music is happening. (trentarthur.ca/a-crash-course-in-the-peterborough-music-scene)
- 09/11/14 - Rifflandia - The 7th year of the Rifflandia music festival hits Victoria this weekend. (rifflandia.com)
- 09/10/14 - The United Sweets of America - If every state had an official dessert, what would it be? (www.slate.com/articles/life/food/2014/08/united_sweets_of_america_map_a_dessert_for_every_state_in_the_country.html)
- 09/09/14 - The Colors of Motion - A site designed and developed by Charlie Clark exploring the use of color in movies. (thecolorsofmotion.com/films)
- 09/08/14 - TheBallot.org - A 100% social voter guide brought to you by the League of Young Voters. (theballot.org)
- 09/07/14 - Clear Water - ClearWater is providing clean water solutions for indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon whose ancestral waterways have been contaminated for decades. (www.giveclearwater.org/map)
- 09/06/14 - Photogrammar - A web-based platform for organizing, searching, and visualizing the 170,000 photographs from 1935 to 1945 created by the United State's Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information (FSA-OWI). (photogrammar.yale.edu)
- 09/05/14 - Brickjest - Infinite Jest in Legos! (www.brickjest.com)
- 09/04/14 - Vancouver Fringe - The Vancouver Fringe Festival kicks of today. (www.vancouverfringe.com)
- 09/03/14 - Web of Change - Connecting Leaders at the Frontiers of Technology and Social Change (webofchange.com)
- 09/02/14 - Thinklandia - A festival of imagination. Thinkers, entrepreneurs, speakers, makers, artists and creators engage, share, enlighten, inspire and prosper. It's about ideas big and small, how to make something work, and how to help others. (www.thinklandia.ca)
- 09/01/14 - The Feynman Lectures on Physics - Caltech and The Feynman Lectures Website are pleased to present this online edition of The Feynman Lectures on Physics. Now, anyone with internet access and a web browser can enjoy reading a high quality up-to-date copy of Feynman's legendary lectures. (feynmanlectures.caltech.edu)
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