The WebM Project
"The WebM Project is dedicated to developing a high-quality, open video format for the web that's freely available to everyone."
pinboarded
The HTML5 Gendered LEGO Advertising Remixer
Mashup video and audio from yout advertisements targeted at girls and boys
Memento: Adding Time to the Web
"Memento wants to make it as straightforward to access the Web of the past as it is to access the current Web. If you know the URI of a Web resource, the technical framework proposed by Memento allows you to see a version of that resource as it existed at some date in the past, by entering that URI in your browser like you always do and by specifying the desired date in a browser plug-in. Or you can actually browse the Web of the past by selecting a date and clicking away. Whatever you land upon will be versions of Web resources as they were around the selected date. Obviously, this will only work if previous versions are available somewhere on the Web. But if they are, and if they are on servers that support the Memento framework, you will get to them."
How you (and other animals) breathe, in one beautiful GIF - Vox
"Who knew breathing could be so beautiful? This outstanding animated GIF, created by designer Eleanor Lutz for her science illustration blog Tabletop Whale, shows three different ways that animals exchange gases with their environments, with fresh, oxygen-rich air shown as yellow, and deoxygenated air shown as red."
Behind the no-budget YouTube series that changed the face of horror
"That’s all there is to the first episode of what might be the scariest thing in the history of the Internet. No monsters jump out from dark corners; no menacing strings amp up the tension. There is only looming, existential dread. Marble Hornets is a black hole that pulls you into the obsessive five-year project, one that involves the “Slender Man,” the Internet bogeyman blamed for a string of stabbings earlier this year. It’s the Internet era’s defining piece of horror. Brace yourself."
Spectroface
"I recently stumbled upon the face hidden in the spectrogram of the Aphex Twin track called "Equation". Intrigued, I decided to try my hand at recreating the effect here on the web."
Statistic Brain | Numbers | Percentages | Financials | Rankings | Statistic Brain
Statistic Brain is a group of passionate number people. We love numbers, their purity, and what they represent. Numbers can bring humans together, they tell us how we are alike and how we are beautifully unique. Numbers are a way to reflect on how far we’ve come and give us hope for the future. Our goal is to bring you accurate and timely statistics. We will never become number analysts because we believe numbers should only be interpreted by the reader. We want to educate, assist, and sometimes entertain with numbers on every subject. We hope that today you learn something new, find inspiration for tomorrow, and use your knowledge for something good.
7 Storytelling Reasons Why Innovation Fails - Get Storied
"You’re probably as fascinated with innovation as we are. Why do some mediocre ideas stick, while other world-changing ideas get lost in translation? You might be familiar with Geoffrey Moore’s seminal work “Crossing the Chasm”; it’s that bell curve graphic we’ve all been taught to fantasize about… how to get our story to go from early adopters to the mainstream majority. It’s also known as the Technology Adoption Curve, and for three plus decades it has captured the imagination of Silicon Valley and marketing professionals around the world. Why? Because the model takes the black box of innovation and turns it into statistical science: approach the marketplace in natural population segments, from the most receptive to the most resistant."
The Nail That Sticks Up . . .
"If you’ve read much about Japan, then you’ve probably come across the saying “出る釘は打たれる” or, in Inglés, “The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.” People usually use this saying to make a point about Japan, how it’s hard to be different, and that any deviance is met with resistance."
Floodwatch
"Floodwatch is a Chrome extension that tracks the ads you see as you browse the internet. It offers tools to help you understand both the volume and the types of ads you’re being served during the course of normal browsing, with the goal of increasing awareness of how advertisers track your browsing behavior, build their version of your online identity, and target their ads to you as an individual."
Are All Online Images Fair Game? | newmatilda.com
"It's easy to pinch a photo from a website and post it in a new context. But how is the easy circulation of images online challenging our ideas about privacy? Forget about hiding your disreputable Facebook party photos from your boss and your mum. What happens to those carefully selected profile photos that you post to your social media profiles, your email accounts and your work website? Although these vetted images might not reveal much in the way of juicy details about our lives offline, they can circulate far beyond the original context in which they're posted which brings me to my predicament. Over the weekend, I saw a robot wearing my face. "
Walter Isaacson on the women of ENIAC
"The revolutionary computing machine had switches that needed resetting, a seemingly menial job. Today we call it programming. "
The Secret Life of the Radio | Brain Pickings
"“When correctly harnessed, radio can be as emotional, as funny and as satisfying as the best motion pictures or television shows,” Ira Glass has said. Indeed, the radio is a medium imbued with equal parts nostalgia and timeless mesmerism — there is something singular, something especially enchanting about how its invisible waves entrance us with their sounds and stories. But how, exactly, does the radio work, and how did it come to be? That’s precisely what Tim Hunkin and Rex Garrod explore in this delightful vintage episode of the TV series The Secret Life Of Machines, written by Hunkin:"
Albany Senior High School | Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand
"In 2012, Auckland’s Albany Senior High School adopted a Creative Commons policy, and thus became New Zealand’s first fully open-source school. The policy ensures that all teaching materials and policies produced at ASHS are given a default Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand licence. Currently, the copyright to all teaching materials produced by New Zealand teachers is held by their respective schools’ Boards of Trustees. As Albany Senior High School Deputy Principal Mark Osborne points out, “Sharing resources is something teachers have done since teaching started… and most people don’t realise they’re breaking the law by doing that.” Albany Senior High School’s Creative Commons policy allows—and even encourages—teachers to, as Mark puts it, “share the family silver.” Many of ASHS’s teachers work on WikiEducator, an initiative of the Open Education Resource Foundation, hosted at New Zealand’s Otago Polytechnic. ASHS contributed to WikiEducator, Mark says, “because we want to be open and collaborative.”"
Cardboard
"Virtual reality has made exciting progress over the past several years. However, developing for VR still requires expensive, specialized hardware. Thinking about how to make VR accessible to more people, a group of VR enthusiasts at Google experimented with using a smartphone to drive VR experiences. The result is Cardboard, a no-frills enclosure that transforms a phone into a basic VR headset, and the accompanying open software toolkit that makes writing VR software as simple as building a web or mobile app. By making it easy and inexpensive to experiment with VR, we hope to encourage developers to build the next generation of immersive digital experiences and make them available to everyone."
CORE Education's Ten Trends
Each year, CORE Education’s experienced staff of researchers, education trainers, and technology experts pool together their expertise, and through a thorough process put together and publish CORE’s prognosis on what are the coming ten major ICT trends that will make an impact upon education in New Zealand (and other parts of the world) in the coming year. Each theme has been identified by CORE as a trend in eLearning that will impact on the way in which early childhood centres, schools and tertiary institutions in NZ embrace and adopt eLearning technologies and practices in the coming year. While the focus is primarily on trends associated with technology use in education, some do not. These have been selected because of the way in which they impact on the way(s) in which the technologies can or will be used. Within each overall trend there are several sub-themes that are listed or explained.
ANZ 23 Mobile Things | A space for Australians and New Zealanders to learn the 23 Mobile Things
ALIA NGAC (Australian Library and Information Association New Generation Advisory Committee) and New Professionals Network NZ teamed up to offer an Australian/New Zealand course based on the 23 Mobile Things course by Jan Holmquist. This course was run from May-November 2013 with over 775 participants signed up!
jquery-csv - Parse CSV (Comma Separated Values) to Javascript arrays or dictionaries. - Google Project Hosting
"Javascript is growing up and HTML is finally maturing the point where webapps are being built to completely displace desktop applications. It's about time that the supporting libraries grow up too. Looking for a complete, end-to-end, battle tested, performance optimized CSV parser that's available in the familiar jQuery syntax style? Welcome... This library is a different creature, featuring a slim Chomsky - Type III parser implementation. Full (that means 100%) IETF RFC 4180 compliance. Including coverage for a few edge cases that even the spec fails to cover. "
Storytelling doesn’t need reinventing — Medium
"Storytelling does not need reinventing. It needs mastering. Mastering the craft of storytelling is time consuming, difficult and rarely rewarding. It’s a lot easier to subscribe to the app, platform, conference or studio that promises to reinvent it all and save you the trouble, isn’t it?"
Why Da Vinci was no genius — delve video essays — Medium
"A video essay on our distorted view of creativity & success"
The Useless Web
"The Useless Web... because some websites, we just couldn't do without "
Internet-in-a-Box
"We are building the Internet-in-a-Box - A small, inexpensive device which provides essential Internet resources without any Internet connection. It provides a local copy of a terabyte of the world's Free information."
Pelican Static Site Generator, Powered by Python
"Pelican is a static site generator, written in Python, that requires no database or server-side logic."
Sounds Just Like
Side by side popular songs, are they just similar?
MOOC Comment Scraper – Program Details | Connection not Content
"The current version of the Scraper abbreviates posts in WordPress or Blogger blogs along with their comments and details such as date, authors etc. – see sample output. My approach is briefly described below along with a summarised version of the program. "
Open Educational Designs
presentation with paper "Open Education Designs: A Taxonomy for Differentiating and Classifying Open Learning Environments"
Minor White, Who Lived A Life In Photographs, Saw Images As Mirrors : NPR
Mapbox | Design and publish beautiful maps
Mapbox Studio, our open source map design platform, launches today across all platforms; Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. Studio allows anyone to design radically custom maps, easily work with huge global datasets, publish updates in seconds, and design with resolution independence from retina devices to high resolution printing. It's the first map design application built from the ground up using vector tiles, providing a new level of design control and interaction, all while being more performant - lighter and faster on any mobile app and web site. Now you can style maps faster, your data simply scales, and everything renders sharper than ever before.
Explain Git with D3
"This website is designed to help you understand some basic git concepts visually. This is my first attempt at using both SVG and D3. I hope it is helpful to you. Adding/staging your files for commit will not be covered by this site. In all sandbox playgrounds on this site, just pretend that you always have files staged and ready to commit at all times. If you need a refresher on how to add or stage files for commit, please read Git Basics. "
i broke git :(