Vector tile river map
I made a tutorial for open source maps with vector tiles. The result is a slippy map of American rivers and some pretty static maps of every US river. But my real goal is the tutorial source code, to help other developers learn to make their own vector maps from geographic data.
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Space: The New Canada
A bunch of ideas I've had tumbling around in my head for some time about science fiction, fear, isolation, and death, have finally gelled into an article looking at all of SF through the lens of Margaret Atwood's "Survival."
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Analog film exhibitors list
A list of exhibitors who intentionally show films on film (35mm, 16mm, whathaveyou) to the public — cinemas, festivals, museums, and itinerant groups. It started out as a news digest looking at (1) cinemas that are switching to digital technology and (2) cinemas that are choosing to preserve analog film exhibition in some form, but I kept finding so many interesting little pro-analog cinema projects that I had to make a list of them. [more inside]
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Building an Open-Source Language Map
I was working on some pretty fun language visualizations, but it turns out there's no worldwide, open dataset of where languages are spoken. So I figured hey, let's make one! [more inside]
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Hypno-Tumble
Ever want to overlay text on a GIF flipbook of your favorite tumblr? Well, now you can. [more inside]
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Pieces of ourselves found in the memories of our ancestors
Found in the Past is a blog dedicated to sharing the history of, and stories about, a family. [more inside]
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Grails Cheat Sheet
A quick weekend project intended to stretch my design/marketing skills. A printable quick reference sheet for the Grails web framework.
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The Soul Never Sleeps
Chris Peters is a classically trained artist based in Los Angeles, with numerous collectors in the music and film industries. To complement his recent exhibition of new paintings at Paul Booth's Last Rites Gallery in New York City, Mr. Peters created this short experimental film "The Soul Never Sleeps". It was designed to evoke the same mood and atmosphere as the other 12 pieces, acting as the exhibition's "13th Painting." The original score was composed for the film by Michael Hebert, an Emmy award winner whose music can be heard in feature films, television and national broadcast commercials. [more inside]
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Waeguk.in
Waeguk-in is (a romanization of) the Korean expression that means 'foreigner,' and that's what I am. The site is Wonderchicken Industries™ newest entry into Korea blogging for fun and no profit whatsoever. I've dismantled my old neglected Korea-focused site and built a shiny new one devoted more to fun and interesting Korea-related stuff and less to turgid essays. If you're interested in Korea, come and have a look, or just follow @iamthewaegukin for updates. [more inside]
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The Lab Bunny
A mystic? A shaman? A makeup artist? An esthetician? A girl wearing A LOT of lipstick? The Lab Bunny is all of these things.
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The Point of Life is the Explosion of Experience Into Ideas
This is an article that puts forward a new theory of the meaning of life, one based on self-expression. It's the product of many years of thinking at the intersection of psychology, philosophy, and religion.
posted by shivohum at 11:22 PM - 1 comment

You Can't Eat The Sunshine, Esotouric's podcast celebrating Los Angeles lore
Esotouric turns the notion of guided bus tours on its ear with excursions like Charles Bukowski's Los Angeles and Pasadena Confidential. Now you don't have to get on the bus to get the skinny. Each week on the You Can't Eat The Sunshine podcast, join Kim Cooper and Richard Schave on their Southern California adventures, as they visit with fascinating characters for wide-ranging interviews that reveal the myths, contradictions, inspirations and passions of the place. There’s never been a city quite like Los Angeles. Tune in if you’d like to find out why. [more inside]
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Moon's Eye: Public Education Films From Another Dimension
Absurdist science fictional takes on such illustrious ephemeral film genres as the Nature Documentary, the Anti-Drug Film, the Pseudo-Educational Advertising Film, and the Ethical Afterschool Special, using a mixture of found and original footage.
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Making It: a cabaret web series
A ten part portrait of an entrepreneur, told through monologues and song. Pete recently opened a small clothing store. He's begun recording a video diary to document what's happening with his business, as well as his thoughts on what it means to be a small business owner. [more inside]
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untold stories of glove and loss
onegloveclapping is a place for revisionist histories of lost gloves. [more inside]
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Maslow's Graph
Abraham Maslow promulgated one of the most enduring, if probably not very correct, models of human needs, basing it on the observation that needs are hierarchical. Then, textbook makers everywhere adopted a visual way of showing the hierarchy, which was interesting. Here's another way of showing the hierarchy.
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Old Maps of Jerusalem on a Timeline
300 real and fictional maps of Jerusalem, from 13th to 20th century, displayed on a timeline
posted by nir at 1:12 PM - 4 comments

Secret Metafilter
Secret Metafilter highlights discussions that are still active on older Metafilter posts. The idea comes from Metafilter user painquale, who wished there was a way to easily find older, active threads, and called the body of such threads "Secret Metafilter." [more inside]
posted by jjwiseman at 10:39 PM - 5 comments

Ode To My 160GB iPod
I wrote a poem when my first 160GB iPod died, after having it 6 years. Then I memorized the poem. Then I made a video of me saying the poem. That is this.
posted by eustacescrubb at 10:07 AM - 4 comments

eBounties
Over my life, I've often thought, "I wish I could find an xyz. Surely somebody on the Internet knows where I could find one. I'll even pay them to find it for me!" So I created a website that enables that kind of search: eBounties lets you find (just about) anything by tapping into the crowd.
posted by xekul at 9:29 AM - 4 comments

Stirling
Stirling is the first Microserial from the YouTube channel Before the Crow. The web series follows Matt Stirling, who after surviving an accident, worries he may be losing his grip on reality. [more inside]
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MetaMitchell&WebbFilter
On January 4th, 2013, Authorized User said: “For the longest time I have had the theory that for every FPP there is a somewhat relevant Mitchell & Webb sketch.” This project is intended to both test that theory and act as an indispensable tool for MeFites.
posted by malevolent at 8:57 AM - 3 comments

Project Unison: A musical interval ear training game for iOS
I was working on being able to identify musical intervals by ear, but the apps I had tried weren't very fun. So instead of cursing the darkness, I got a few musical folks together and we made Project Unison, an app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch that turns interval ear training into a fun arcade game. [more inside]
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Concordance Poems
Recently, I've been using concordances of poems in my teaching and presenting, and have been surprised at the new poems that emerge from the rearranged works. I started a single-topic tumblr to document some of my favorites. [more inside]
posted by activitystory at 9:16 AM - 4 comments

I'm Thomas
On February 20, 1974, science fiction author Philip K. Dick began a journey into an otherworldly state of being. He was no longer just writing about the fantastic, but entered an utterly strange, strangely compelling, far country of experience. He wrote that he felt the presence of a twin, whom he called Thomas, who he thought must have lived in apostolic days. Many of his thoughts, which he did not neglect to put on paper, are scattered, almost confused, a man who was reaching beyond reality and trying to put the things he found in terms ill suited for the concrete. [more inside]
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Every Bond movie, reviewed in order, mostly on Sundays
My James Bond knowledge has always been spotty. I'm fixing it by watching every James Bond movie every other Sunday (hence the name of the blog) and blogging about it. [more inside]
posted by mostly vowels at 9:55 PM - 3 comments

Hans Zimmer to score Star Wars Episode VII
Hans Zimmer's Main Title music for Star Wars Episode VII.
posted by bauermaster at 9:36 AM - 3 comments

Lots of plants, lots and lots of plants
I am a gardener. I've been meaning to start blogging about what I do for quite some time. This is a tumblr blog mainly of my own photography of gardens and plants. [more inside]
posted by sciencegeek at 3:05 PM - 1 comment

pilaroid
I'm working on this little toy that takes subsequences from the hexadecimal expansion of pi and represents them as 500x500px images. [more inside]
posted by invitapriore at 1:51 PM - 3 comments

Frisch & Co. Electronic Books
I've recently launched my first book at my new ebook-only publishing house. Dedicated to publishing only literature in English translation and selling the books DRM-free and worldwide, I've partnered with prestigious publishing houses in Germany, Spain, Italy, and Brazil to bring the best of contemporary world literature to, well, anybody anywhere, if they can read English and have an ereading device. [more inside]
posted by mekanic at 11:34 AM - 2 comments

RogueShell - Browser console for ASCII roguelikes
I've been working on a website that lets people play ASCII roguelikes in the browser. It's pretty close to feature complete but a few things are broken. Have a play. [more inside]
posted by aychedee at 4:35 PM - 7 comments

32 Hours, 7 Minutes: Q&A with Director Cory Welles
I did a fun Q&A with Cory Welles, director of the documentary 32 Hours, 7 Minutes. The film takes its title from the US transcontinental speed record, set during the 1983 US Express (a secretive race from New York to LA, and successor to the famous Cannonball Run). [more inside]
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Badly Drawn Videogames using MS Paint
I was bored one day and started sketching out some old computer/video games screen shots in MS Paint. Somebody suggested I put them on a tumblr, which I did, then promptly forgot about it again until now.
posted by thingonaspring at 8:36 AM - 3 comments

CRAPCHA  
CRAPCHA stands for Completely Ridiculous And Phony Captcha that Hassles for Amusement. It doesn't keep spammers out. It doesn't crowdsource book scanning either. CRAPCHA's only job is to baffle users, and you can add it to your site today.
posted by thomaspark at 4:31 PM - 9 comments

POWER VOCAB TWEET  
Boost your vocabulary with these fiercely plausible words and definitions. [more inside]
posted by aparrish at 6:19 AM - 5 comments

Shibegeist
I made a dumb thing. It makes those memes where you see the Shibu Inu dog's internal monologue, but with parts of tweets. [more inside]
posted by mccarty.tim at 1:03 PM - 6 comments

TodoCat: A Sophisticated Cat Todo List
You know the "I should buy a boat" meme? Even if you don't, here's a very sophisticated cat looking to help you organize your todo list. It's the first time in recorded history that cats and memes will actually increase productivity. [more inside]
posted by soma lkzx at 10:18 AM - 6 comments

SkimMetafilter - Show the "top" comments in a thread
I made this bookmarklet to help me read through really long comment threads. Sometimes I don't have time to read through all of the comments, but still would like to read the "best" ones, especially those that contain supplementary information or links. [more inside]
posted by Idle Curiosity at 8:32 PM - 5 comments

BookHunch.com: the anti-Pinterest bookmarking site
This is a new project I've just released in beta. I was inspired to do it b/c I was getting tired of stale bookmarked links: a lot of useful blog articles disappear and neither web.archive.org nor Google's cache were very helpful. I'm calling it the "anti-Pinterest" because the focus is on preserving text, using a readability-style algorithm to strip away ads and other web page boilerplate. It's still new, and a little rough around the edges, but I'm interesting in hearing what you guys think! If you sign up today, contact me through the form on the site with your username and I'll give you free access for a month.
posted by dpapathanasiou at 9:22 AM - 3 comments

We Have Such Films To Show You  
So griphus was all "omg there's nine Hellraiser movies?" and I was like "I know, let's do a podcast about 'em!" and that's the story of We Have Such Films To Show You, our new podcast miniseries where we tackle every film in the increasingly-troubled Hellraiser franchise in loving, rambling detail. The first episode is now up; the podcast feed is here. [more inside]
posted by cortex at 7:36 AM - 28 comments

NJW Games | Tabletop RPGs and more
I started this blog to support my game, Blade & Crown, but it's now quite extensive in itself. There are many articles of general use to tabletop RPG gamers, including adventure ideas, gaming history, reviews, worldbuilding, GMing tips & tricks and more.
posted by jiawen at 12:06 AM - 2 comments

Chicago Food Bloggers
I'm hoping it becomes a definitive directory of food bloggers in Chicago, the Chicago suburbs, and Northwest Indiana. I just finished designing and building the site and have sent out a few invitations, but it officially launches in two weeks. [more inside]
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DankStory
Drug stories in MS Paint. [more inside]
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Password Generator
Using the same password for multiple email, e-commerce and social networking websites is risky, but the majority of web users still do it. This tool allows you to generate unique passwords for a bunch of popular websites in one step. [more inside]
posted by Lanark at 3:44 PM - 3 comments

Crossfader - Move & Mix
Everyone complains about how ridiculously simple DJing is, but no one does anything about it. Sound like a pro on your phone by moving your body. It's like DJ karaoke and even your mom will like it.
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Crosses
A 5 minute scifi film. Two cops jump back in time to investigate a cold case. [more inside]
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Hackersh ("Hacker Shell")
Hackersh ("Hacker Shell") is a free and open source shell (command interpreter) written in Python with Pythonect-like syntax, builtin security commands, and out of the box wrappers for various security tools. It is like Unix pipeline, but for processing security information and metadata rather than bytes. [more inside]
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Similar Songs
Ten years ago in college, I had a website with clips of similar-sounding pop songs. It was a lot of fun and I received many interesting submissions (more than I ever managed to get online). Surprisingly, since then there have been very few other sites like this, so I'm trying again. Of course, there are a few rules...
posted by pete_22 at 9:07 AM - 5 comments

Sixty Seconds of Salary
An animated data visualization I designed in association with CNNMoney went live this morning. It shows and compares salaries for different people (Kobe Bryant, ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, a minimum wage worker, a physician, etc), accumulating in real-time for 1 minute. Watch the disparity grow second by second!
posted by edlundart at 2:37 PM - 6 comments

Chicago Public Schools...data for parents to help them advocate for their school
Building on the work with CPS Apples to Apples, I joined forces with Chicago's Open Data Institute to help shine a light on the real data around Chicago Public Schools anticipated historically large number of school closings. The data is being used by parents and community groups to ask targeted, educated questions about the schools on the closing and receiving lists, and to educate parents about how District policy affects their local school's staffing, class sizes, etc. Some of the data being visualized exists in disconnected sites, some of it has had to be "liberated" from PDF's in order to be used. The team is hoping to extend its work at some point into a project called SchoolCircles, a site that will help public school parents in Chicago (and with code that can be repurposed for other districts) understand the data that affects their schools (budgets, staffing, student performance and mobility, utilization) more completely, as well as quickly run "what if" scenarios for how proposed changes to district policy would affect their specific school.
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