site of the day archive for august 2016
- 08/31/16 - Object Dreams - A blog with writings by a predictive text emulator. (objectdreams.tumblr.com)
- 08/30/16 - Sitting Up - A brief history of chairs. (www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/08/23/sitting-up)
- 08/29/16 - The Riddler - A weekly math, logic and probability from 538. (fivethirtyeight.com/tag/the-riddler)
- 08/28/16 - Five Course Trivia - Five Food Questions, Five Days a Week (fivecoursetrivia.com)
- 08/27/16 - Victoria Serial Novels - Reading like a Victorian. (victorianserialnovels.org)
- 08/26/16 - 11 herbs and spices - KFC recipe revealed? (www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/travel/ct-kfc-recipe-revealed-20160818-story.html)
- 08/25/16 - Victoria Fringe - The Victoria Fringe Theatre Festival is open. (victoriafringe.com)
- 08/24/16 - National Aeronautics and Space Administration PubSpace - NASA is using PMC to permanently preserve and provide easy public access to the peer-reviewed papers resulting from NASA-funded research. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/funder/nasa)
- 08/23/16 - Lonnie Johnson - The father of the Super Soaker (www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37062579)
- 08/22/16 - Trump Facts - There are facts and there are #TRUMPFACTS. With a consequential election approaching, don't trust what the mainstream media is telling you about Donald Trump. This site exists to set the record straight, to give you the truth straight from Donald himself. (www.allthetrumpfacts.com)
- 08/21/16 - Science Question From A Toddler - The latest: "How Big Is A Fart? Somewhere Between A Bottle Of Nail Polish And A Can Of Soda" (fivethirtyeight.com/tag/science-question-from-a-toddler)
- 08/20/16 - The Hip - Where to watch the Tragically Hip's show if you're not in Kingston (www.cbcmusic.ca/posts/12529/the-hip-screening-locations)
- 08/19/16 - Hip Covers - The 10 best Tragically Hip covers (www.cbcmusic.ca/posts/12520/the-10-best-tragically-hip-covers)
- 08/18/16 - Stranger Things Title Card Generator - Make all things Stranger Things (makeitstranger.com)
- 08/17/16 - Poetic Botany - Art & Science of the Eighteenth-Century Vegetable World (www.nybg.org/poetic-botany)
- 08/16/16 - Clothes in Books and Ways to go Wrong - Clothes aren't just something one puts on a character to stop her from being naked. Done right, clothes are everything -- a way of describing class, affluence, taste, self-presentation, mental health, body image. (www.themillions.com/2016/08/clothes-books-ways-go-wrong.html)
- 08/15/16 - The President's Summer Reading List - Check out what President Obama is reading this summer. (www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/08/12/presidents-summer-reading-list)
- 08/14/16 - Breaking down the best slapstick GIF we've ever seen - A frame-by-frame analysis. (www.theverge.com/2016/8/11/12437266/breaking-down-the-best-slapstick-gif-we-ve-ever-seen)
- 08/13/16 - Journalism - Slightly More Than 100 Exceptional Works of Journalism (www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/08/slightly-more-than-100-exceptional-works-of-journalism/490622)
- 08/12/16 - Olympic Dominance - A Visual History of Which Countries Have Dominated the Summer Olympics (www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/08/sports/olympics/history-olympic-dominance-charts.html)
- 08/11/16 - Trump Tweets - Text analysis of Trump's tweets confirms he writes only the (angrier) Android half (varianceexplained.org/r/trump-tweets)
- 08/10/16 - Lobster Roll - The Definitive Oral History of the Lobster Roll (downeast.com/maine-lobster-roll)
- 08/09/16 - Morbotron - Morbotron has almost a million Futurama screencaps so search now or I will destroy you! (morbotron.com)
- 08/08/16 - Software Library: Amiga - Run favourite Amiga software titles inside your web browser. (archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_amiga)
- 08/07/16 - Try the MRR stack - Get on the trolley and start writing web applications like it's 2016 already! (webstackpicker.herokuapp.com)
- 08/06/16 - The Deaf Poets Societym - An online journal of disability literature & art. (www.deafpoetssociety.com)
- 08/05/16 - Star Trek Viz - A visualization of every character in every Star Trek series and movie through 2013 (www.datascopeanalytics.com/startrekviz)
- 08/04/16 - Nintendo Power - The complete collection of Nintendo Power magazines, searchable and readable online. (archive.org/details/nintendopower)
- 08/03/16 - Pl@ntNet - A tool to help to identify plants with pictures. It is organize in different databases. Please choose the one corresponding to your location. (identify.plantnet-project.org)
- 08/02/16 - Band Naming - The Linguistics of My Next Band Name (daily.jstor.org/the-linguistics-of-my-next-band-name)
- 08/01/16 - Born to Run (the Numbers) - A nice mix of puns and political analysis. (www.borntorunthenumbers.com)
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