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Things 116: Cloud Phase Time-Lapse, 3D Map, Better Tube Map
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Point a camera at the sky, create a time lapse video of the clouds. Do the same thing every day of the year. Play back all the videos simultaneously in a grid. Voilà: a kind of phase-diagram visualisation, with seconds representing minutes and space representing seasons. Brilliant.
More detail here. Via Data Pointed.
Link
This is apparently pretty [...]
Things 114: Kern Test, Robot Bird, Social Graph, Too Soon To Say
Puzzle
This week, try testing your ability to kern.
If you liked that, try the splines.
Video
It’s easy to get overexcited about human progress, when in the grand scheme of things we’re still pretty small fry. I would periodically remind myself of this by considering that for all our ingenuity, we still couldn’t make a robot the size [...]
Things 63: Avalanche, The Universe, Russian Ablum Covers
(Originally sent December 2009, maybe)
Video
This is what it looks like to cause an avalanche, get buried in it, struggle to breathe for four long minutes, and then get dug out. Now that’s what I call reality television.
Link
An awesome bit of flash to help you comprehend the scale of everything in the universe. I recommend zooming [...]
Things 62: 360 video, one word websites, 48-hour day
(Originally sent November 2010, maybe)
Video
I found this pretty amazing – a video in which you can choose where to direct your gaze, a bit like Google Street View but in motion:
Links
I collected some nice single-question-answering websites last year, let me know if you know any others:
GoingToRain.com
DownForEveryoneOrJustme.com
HowToUseTwitterForMarketingAndPR.com
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Frank Banks:
“If you really want to do something, you’ll find [...]