2014

21.12.2014

Earth’s magnetic field could flip within a human lifetime
The Posters that Warned against the Horrors of a World with Women’s Rights
Reaction to the Sony Hack Is 'Beyond the Realm of Stupid' | Motherboard
"The reality is having your scripts posted online does not constitute a terrorist act."
Primus Wonka album synced with 1971 film - Metal Hammer
Extrapolated art
New techniques in machine learning and image processing allow us to extrapolate the scene of a painting to see what the full scenery might have looked like
Livin' Thing
An Oral History of 'Boogie Nights'
Um for the Holidays - The Morning News
We asked a group of non-believers to tell us how they’re spending their secular holiday seasons.
Need a last minute flight?
On Delta, you can change the URL of your boarding pass and get someone else's boarding pass.
Lego Friends
One word: ponytail
Why should we ask the password twice during registration?
User Experience Stack Exchange
UX Project Checklist
Formstone
Collection of front-end components focused on simple implementation and easy customization
"Evolution of a Diet Revolution" by Andreas Eenfeldt, MD on Vimeo

14.12.2014

Of Balls and Short Australian Men
A Nuanced Guide to AC/DC
Is Studying Buffy the Vampire Slayer More Important Than Studying Shakespeare?
Everybody Scrolls.
Our first piece of ongoing research into usability best practices tackles scrolling.
Dimebag Darrell 10-Year Death Anniversary
10 Years Later, a Look Back at the Murder of the Last Guitar God
The Open-Office Trap - The New Yorker
the new space was disruptive, stressful, and cumbersome, and, instead of feeling closer, coworkers felt distant, dissatisfied, and resentful. Productivity fell.
Chinese Mobile App UI Trends
Underscores
A Starter Theme for WordPress

7.12.2014

Speed Kills
This Is What "One Size Fits All" Actually Looks Like On All Body Types
The Mesmerizing Architecture of Mosques
Iranian photographer Mohammad Reza Domiri gives us an opportunity to see the entirety of these incredible spaces all at once. His fully panoramic, expansive photographs of centuries-old mosques reveal the genius of their geometries and complexity.
Dwindling African tribe may have been most populous group on planet
When data gets creepy
the secrets we don't realise we're giving away
What's Wrong With This Picture?
Flickr is about to sell off your Creative Commons photos
Your Windowless Cubicle..
Is Doing Horrible Things For Your Sleep And Mental Health
Six Myths About Climate Change that Liberals Rarely Question

23.11.2014

20 Years of Ebola, and How Photography Has Changed
The Client's Guide to What it Actually Takes to Create a Website
Revenue Streams
Is Spotify the music industry's friend or its foe?
Petition: Don't Put a Climate Change Denier in Charge of U.S. Environmental Policy!
How To Make Streaming Royalties Fair(er)
Helping users find mobile-friendly pages
From the Google Webmaster Central Blog
Always Up-To-Date Social Media Image Sizes
A picture is worth a thousand (coherent) words
Google's developed a machine-learning system that can automatically produce captions to accurately describe images
Managing Feature Requests
An A List Apart Column
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logic game
Lowpoly Bot
a twitter bot that automatically creates low polygon pictures from any image it gets sent
Attention, artists: Streaming music is the inescapable future. Embrace it - CNET
Previously, "those with institutional money could buy the storefronts, and it was easier to herd consumers," Merlin's CEO Caldas said. The stream and the download changed that. "That's why independents perform better in a digital world."

16.11.2014

Interstellar
explained in one simple timeline [Warning: SPOILERS]
Here Are the 5 Funniest Reviews of Products at Amazon | The Kitchn
53 New York Times Videos Teach Essential Cooking Techniques
From Poaching Eggs to Shucking Oysters
A Brief History of Failure - NYTimes.com
"either a gallery of technologies we lost or an invitation to consider alternate futures"
9 basic principles of responsive web design
Dev.Opera - Responsive Images
Use Cases and Documented Code Snippets to Get You Started
What's the Deal with Interstellar's Idea That Corn and Okra Are the Only Crops Left in the Future? Let's Ask a Scientist.
Food on Film | The Kitchn
Using shades for eye-catching emphasis
The Dreadful Inconvenience of Salad - The Atlantic
A start-up will contribute an interesting answer to the million-dollar food-policy question: If healthy food was as easy as junk food, would we eat more of it?
Spotify Metal
Monthly metal playlists on Spotify
Sorry I Murdered Everyone. I'm An Introvert.
Aloe Blacc: Streaming Services Need to Pay Songwriters Fairly
In return for co-writing a major hit song, I've earned less than $4,000 domestically from the largest digital music service.

9.11.2014

The Chernobyl Disaster Is Still Creating Radioactive Animals
surprising sanctuary for wildlife that have flourished in the abandoned region, but scientists aren't sure what the radiation will do to the wildlife population.
Astronomy: The Size of Stuff
how some space stuff out there compares to Earth stuff down here
The 10 greatest changes of the past 1,000 years
In Europe, the last millennium has been shaped by successive waves of change, but which shifts, in which centuries, have really shaped the modern world?
Floated Labels Still Suck
Whatever the reason floated labels exist, here is a list of potential issues with the pattern.
Improving Your Information Architecture With Card Sorting
A Beginner's Guide | Smashing Magazine
Punkt. ES 01 Extension socketAudiacliving
The Internet's First Family
MetaFilter began in 1999 as a sort of humane proto-Reddit. Why did a site for sharing "best of the web" links become a place where strangers help each other in real life in extraordinary ways?
The Complicated Appeal Of Black Metal
"As Black Metal has become hip.." what now?
NoMe
location and weather JavaScript library
Coolors
The super fast color palettes generator!
Stop Breaking the Web
Whatever happened to progressive enhancement? You know, that simple rule where you are supposed to put content at the forefront. Everything else is secondary to content, right?

2.11.2014

The Internet Arcade | the Internet Archive
web-based library of arcade (coin-operated) video games from the 1970s through to the 1990s, emulated in JSMAME
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: how scientifically plausible is it?
Pop Culture Twitter Lists
From Ancient DNA, a Clearer Picture of Europeans Today
advances in biotechnology have made it possible to begin extracting entire DNA from the bones of ancestors who lived thousands of years ago
Women In Clothes
Explores the wide range of motives that inform how women present themselves through clothes, and what style really means.
Feast Your Eyes on This Beautiful Linguistic Family Tree
What's So Bad About Gluten?
Pictures of the factory show pallets stacked with fifty-pound bags of vital wheat gluten. "I just wonder how much of this additional gluten our bodies can digest", Jones told me when I was at the Bread Lab. "There has to be some limit."
c. 1858: Photos of Veterans of the Napoleonic Wars
Old Masters at the Top of Their Game - NYTimes.com
72 Hours of #Gamergate
This swarming behavior is so prevalent, it got a new nickname 'sea lioning'
Inside Twitter's ambitious plan to kill the password
if Twitter has its way phone numbers will become the primary way we log into our mobile applications
De Kledingbibliotheek.
Adactio: Journal— Indie web building blocks
on POSSE: Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere

26.10.2014

Egg Freezing
A Sign Your Workplace Is A Dystopian HellHole
No Smoke, No Mirrors
The Dutch Pension Plan - NYTimes.com
Discover Spotify Playlists at Playlists.net
15 Tricks to Appear Smart in Emails
Opinie: Traditie-liefhebbers, luister eens naar critici. Soms hebben ze gelijk - nrc.nl
'Hoe minder er is om een traditie te rechtvaardigen, des te moeilijker het is om haar kwijt te raken.'
BBC - Your life on earth
How you and the world have changed since you were born.
Spotibot.com
Generate Spotify Playlists powered by Lastfm
How to Pair Ingredients for More Flavorful Salads
A Scientifically Proven Guide To Ordering A Delicious Chopped Salad Every Single Time
The Only Thing I Have To Say About Gamer Gate
Post by Felicia Day
Nazi war criminals collected millions of dollars in U.S. Social Security
The Best Gear for Small Apartments
from The Sweethome
SimCity That I Used to Know
On the game's 25th birthday, a devotee talks with creator Will Wright
Darwin's Rib | DiscoverMagazine.com
"She spoke: Males have one fewer pair of ribs than females."
ISIS's Looting Campaign - The New Yorker
As fighters from ISIS overrun the region, they have been digging up many archaeological sites and looting whatever they find.