August 12, 2010
August 5, 2010
- Flowchart of the same-sex marriage debate
and hooray for prop 8 being struck down today!
July 9, 2010
July 7, 2010
July 1, 2010
June 25, 2010
- Spanish narration of Landon Donovan’s game-winning goal against Algeria
goosebumps all over
June 21, 2010
June 16, 2010
June 10, 2010
June 6, 2010
- Video: “Write the Future” World Cup ad
directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu
- Ask NASA: What would really happen to a human exposed to a vacuum?
happened once for 15 seconds in 1965; the water on your tongue begins to boil
- Nate Silver goes to the NYT
licensed for next 3 years; very exciting collaboration
May 26, 2010
- Virginia Heffernan - The Death of the Open Web
app stores as gentrification
May 19, 2010
- Jessica’s daily affirmation
my whole house is great!
May 13, 2010
May 10, 2010
May 9, 2010
- Google Chrome speed tests
chrome vs. potato gun, sound wave, and bolt of lightning
April 26, 2010
April 18, 2010
- Sunday Magazine: The NYT magazine 100 years ago this weekend
including a great article about the tabulating machines used for the 1910 census
April 17, 2010
- Google adds Twitter archive search
local, time-specific search results
April 10, 2010
- Video: math teacher’s April Fool’s Day prank
misbehaving shadow
April 4, 2010
March 28, 2010
March 27, 2010
- Tyler Cowen on missed connections
maybe a bit of a horse’s ass
March 15, 2010
- Chat Roulette piano improv
love it
March 13, 2010
- Visualization of the colors of Boston Common at different times of year
taken from geotagged photos on flickr
February 26, 2010
- How many news outlets do original reporting?
7 out of 121 versions of the story
February 22, 2010
- Scale diagram illustrating the depth of the Mariana Trench
empire state building barely scratches the surface
January 30, 2010
January 20, 2010
January 17, 2010
January 12, 2010
December 31, 2009
- Adam Parrish on the Joking Computer
what we can learn from a punning program
December 28, 2009
- How Victoria’s Secret modifies a photo
in short, a lot
- New Yorker 2009 news quiz
i just think it’s an interesting coincidence
December 3, 2009
November 27, 2009
- Video: Gerald Chertavian at Big Think
nice interview on social enterprise and education reform
November 26, 2009
- Archive of MIDI files from Geocities
yakety sax had not yet gone viral