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Things 116: Cloud Phase Time-Lapse, 3D Map, Better Tube Map
Video
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 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
Quote
Frank Banks:
“If you really want to do something, you’ll find [...]
Things 30: Evolution Paradox, Ninja Cat, Wobbly Illusion
(Originally sent September 2008)
It’s Things 30, I’m 30. Isn’t that nice.
Films
If I have time, I may watch Taken, because it seems wonderfully up-front about its aim as a film — “They have taken his daughter. He will hunt them. He will find them. And he will kill them.”
IMDb: 7.8/10
RT: 50%
Last week’s puzzle
What is the difference between a duck?
One of [...]