site of the day archive for october 2015
- 10/31/15 - Frightgeist - The Google Trends of Hallowe'en. (frightgeist.withgoogle.com)
- 10/30/15 - The Flow Towards Europe - Europe is experiencing the biggest refugee crisis since World War II. Based on data from the United Nations, we clarify the scale of the crisis. (www.lucify.com/the-flow-towards-europe)
- 10/29/15 - The Simpsons - How an episode of The Simpsons is made (www.theverge.com/2015/10/25/9457247/the-simpsons-al-jean-interview)
- 10/28/15 - Routine - This is a work about repetition, present in many forms in these images, not only with people walking by in cadence but also with the buildings facades full of geometric, rythmic and repetitive elements. Because life is all about rythm. (www.juliendouvier.com/Animated-photography-Routine)
- 10/27/15 - Old NYC - Mapping historical photos from the NYPL (www.oldnyc.org)
- 10/26/15 - Synth - A Beginner's Guide to the Synth. (20khz.gizmodo.com/a-beginners-guide-to-the-synth-1736978695)
- 10/25/15 - TrudeauMetre - The TrudeauMetre is a non-partisan collaborative citizen initiative that tracks his performance with regards to his electoral platform. (www.trudeaumetre.ca)
- 10/24/15 - Living Above the Store - The Mostly True Adventures Of Standup Comedy's Legendary Frat House (www.buzzfeed.com/djpeisner/the-mostly-true-adventures-of-standup-comedys-legendary-frat)
- 10/23/15 - Fieldwork Fail - Scientists working in the field share their more embarassing stories. (fieldworkfail.com)
- 10/22/15 - Indexed - Data stories on index cards. (thisisindexed.com)
- 10/21/15 - Tea - The Non-Judgmental Guide to Getting Seriously Into Tea (www.seriouseats.com/2015/01/tea-for-everyone.html)
- 10/20/15 - Reflections - A beautiful gallery where each photo features an elderly person looking pensively at the reflection of his/her younger self in the mirror. (www.tomhussey.com/PROJECTS/REFLECTIONS/thumbs)
- 10/19/15 - Election Day - It's Election Day. Go vote NDP! (www.ndp.ca/vote)
- 10/18/15 - Probability, Paradox, and the Reasonable Person Principle - Particularly perplexing paradoxical probability problems. (nbviewer.ipython.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/Probability.ipynb)
- 10/17/15 - 2015 Nikon microscopy contest winners - The best of this year's images, and an appreciation of microscopy itself. (arstechnica.com/science/2015/10/2015-nikon-microscopy-contest-winners-science-is-art)
- 10/16/15 - A Chicago Sojourn - A journey through the architecture and urban landscape of Chicago - from industrial zones to Mid-Century suburbs and all points between. (achicagosojourn.wordpress.com)
- 10/15/15 - The Little Printf - The journey of a little guy named printf, who's in search of mentoring as a programmer - and the greater meaning of why we code. (ferd.ca/the-little-printf.html)
- 10/14/15 - What's it like to be an animal? - If you're six feet tall, 10 miles per hour probably doesn't feel very fast. But what if you were just six inches tall, like a squirrel? It would feel quite a bit faster. This site shows the actual speeds of animals and how fast they would be going if they were your size. (www.speedofanimals.com)
- 10/13/15 - votenation - Voting is contagious - we know this. If you tell your friends and family you're voting, they're more likely to vote too. Vote loud, vote proud. Let everyone know that you will be voting on October 19. Create an 'I Will Vote' profile pic. (votenation.ca)
- 10/12/15 - A Recent History of Microgenres - Artists remember 12 musical movements that meant everything, then didn't. (www.thefader.com/2015/10/08/timeline-history-of-music-microgenres-chillwave-cloud-rap-witch-house)
- 10/11/15 - Majority Illusion - A quick puzzle to tell whether you know what people are thinking (www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/business/wonkblog/majority-illusion)
- 10/10/15 - Barcode Reader - A free online barcode reader/decoder. (online-barcode-reader.inliteresearch.com)
- 10/09/15 - NDP Platform - Building the country of our dreams (www.ndp.ca/platform)
- 10/08/15 - The Map of Literature - Combining centuries of books and poems in one gorgeous illustration. (www.vox.com/maps/2015/9/25/9397237/literature-map)
- 10/07/15 - Punny Businesses - The Ultimate Crowdsourced Map of Punny Businesses in America (www.atlasobscura.com/articles/behold-the-ultimate-crowdsourced-map-of-punny-businesses-in-america)
- 10/06/15 - The Status Survey - 115 Ways to Scream 'Status' (nymag.com/thecut/2015/09/status-survey-115-things-to-have-now.html)
- 10/05/15 - From Dothraki to Valyrian - Building the Languages of Game of Thrones (www.sciencefriday.com/segment/10/02/2015/from-dothraki-to-valyrian-building-the-languages-of-game-of-thrones.html)
- 10/04/15 - Rfacebook - A series of functions that allow R users to extract their private information, search for public Facebook posts that mention specific keywords, capture data from Facebook pages, and update their Facebook status. (pablobarbera.com/blog/archives/3.html)
- 10/03/15 - If This Then Totally That - Sick of always searching high and low for the perfect gif? Want a better way to create meme-y images? Or just want to kill a few minutes online during your lunch hour? The IFTTTT tool is here for you! Simply pick a category and your current need from the dropdown menu, and IFTTTT will magically conjure up one (or a few!) handy resources for you. Yup, it's that easy. (www.mrss.com/toolshed/if-this-then-totally-that)
- 10/02/15 - Disco/Graph - Visualizing music as a social graph. (discograph.mbrsi.org)
- 10/01/15 - New York City, 1609 - Have you ever wondered what New York was like before it was a city? Find out here, by navigating through the map of the city in 1609. (welikia.org/explore/mannahatta-map)
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