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Out of Sight, Out of Mind: A visualization of drone strikes in Pakistan since 2004
This powerful timeline illustrates how drone attacks have increased dramatically under Obama’s administration.
Dark Archives in Contents Magazine
A really lovely piece on the repositories of information that aren’t catalogued—a fourth quadrant in the Rumsfeldian taxonomy, these dark archives are the unknown knowns.
Interview with Lauren Beukes about Shining Girls
Lauren talks about The Shining Girls and the tools she uses to write with.
The paradoxes of time travel by David Lewis
A well-written white paper on time travel. Alas, it relies a bit too much on semantic nitpickery to offer any real insight.
Flickr, codeswarming
A beautiful timelapse visualisation of code commits to Flickr from 2004 to 2011.
Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek - Multimedia Feature - NYTimes.com
Excellent journalism combined with excellent art direction into something that feels just right for the medium of the web.
10 Years of Scrobbling Timeline – Last.fm
A really nice interactive timeline of data from ten years of scrobbling music to Last.fm.
The Useless Web
Don’t do it. Don’t click that button just one more time. Don’t.
Web History, a timeline
This is right up my alley: a timeline of the history of hypertext, starting with Borges.
Improving Reality 2012 : Joanne Mcneil
Note’s from Joanne’s presentation at Improving Reality.
Lanyrd: the early days | The Lanyrd Blog
This is a rather lovely history of the first two years of Lanyrd, starting with that honeymoon-turned-startup.
I really like the way that Lanyrd’s communications reflect the personalities of Simon and Nat: utterly brilliant, but also a little bonkers, with far more animals than would be reasonably expected.
Infovore » ghostcar
Tom describes his Foursquare ghost.
A List Apart: Articles: Everything in its Right Pace
A great article by Hannah, focusing on the Long Web—it isn’t about the quantity of data you’re publishing; it’s the quality. This builds nicely on the article I linked to recently about digital scarcity.
Distant Shape: 10 Years of Daring Fireball
A nice visualisation of Apple’s transition From desktop to mobile over ten years, one Daring Fireball article at a time.
Oh, and happy birthday, Daring Fireball.
This is now!
A thoroughly addictive use of the Instagram API (along with Node.js and Socket.io): see a montage of images being taken in a city right now.
View from the ISS at Night on Vimeo
Another beautiful timelapse video made from photographs taken from the International Space Station.
The music from Sunshine gets me every time.
A Ship Aground
This is how London looked on my birthday, as recorded by the stationary meatspace protrusion of James’s Ship Adrift.
The Evolution of the Web
A nice timeline visualisation of recent history.
The Slow Web – Jack Cheng
This resonates deeply with me. It is worth your heartbeats.
10 Timeframes | Contents Magazine
I didn’t count how many heartbeats it took to read this, but it was worth every single one.
Sound of Summer
This is sooo nifty: Chloe’s obsessive Summer music visualisation is a lesson in responsive design and progressive enhancement. It’s also pretty fascinating.
Welcome to History Mesh
This is rather wonderful: a DevFort project for navigating interweaving strands of history, James Burke style.
ISS Star Trails - a set on Flickr
Beautiful time-lapse photography from Don “we’ve got a Dragon by the tail” Pettit, taken from the International Space Station.
I can tell you how I got from Deep Purple to Howling Wolf in just 25 moves. | Chloe Weil
The way that Chloe has catalogued her music over time is fascinating. It’s like the Long Now opposite of This Is My Jam.
Chirp Clock
This serendipitous chronometer shows tweets that are mentioning the current time.
Webstock ‘12: Jeremy Keith - Of Time and the Network on Vimeo
The video of my talk from Webstock, all about wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff like networks and memory.
The Lively Morgue
Photographs from the archive of the New York Times.
YouTube - One Hour Per Second
Cute CSS animations illustrating the incredible rate of uploads to YouTube.
This is Brighton on Vimeo
A lovely timelapse tilt-shift video of Brighton.
angry, productive birds (tecznotes)
Mashing up Angry Birds and spreadsheets to better visualise project time-tracking.
Predicting the Future of Computing - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com
An interactive timeline where we, the wise crowd, can add our predictions (although the timeline for the past, showing important technological breakthroughs, is bizarrely missing Cooke and Wheatsone’s telegraph).
Designers, what’s the rush? | Normative - Design for Devices and the Web
A plea for more time.
We tend to think in 2 to 5 year scales, maybe we need to be thinking in longer time lines about our own careers and skills.
Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS on Vimeo
Gorgeous time-lapse footage from the astronauts in the International Space Station.
inter // states on Vimeo
A time-lapse video of Tokyo transportation.
Goodbye time, datetime, and pubdate. Hello data and value. | HTML5 Doctor
A very even-handed look at the time and data debacle in HTML5.
Why No Time?
A single-serving website expressing the frustration and bewilderment at Hixie’s unilateral decision to drop the time element from HTML.
The Mountain on Vimeo
Beautiful timelapse.
Future Timeline | Technology | Singularity | 2020 | 2050 | 2100 | 2150 | 2200 | 21st century | 22nd century | 23rd century | Humanity | Predictions | Events
A speculative timeline of future history.
Arrivals
A cute glanceable interface onto Foursquare that turns it into your own private railway station.
Bringing the London Bus Network home – Blog – BERG
This is an excellent use of the Kindle as an undemanding screen. Really lovely!
Design Firm Seeks to Humanize Technology - NYTimes.com
Those lovely BERG chaps profiled in the New York Times.
10,000 Year Clock
Jeff Bezos has put together a little site to give some background on The Clock Of The Long Now: soon to be open to visitors.
In a Brooklyn Loft, Twitter Stars Find Common Ground - NYTimes.com
A profile of those whacky Brooklyn Studiomates.
Tell-all telephone | Data Protection | Digital | ZEIT ONLINE
A dataviz demo of creepiness: displaying the movements of Malte Spitz by correlating her phone activity and web usage.
Brian Eno - The Big Here and the Long Now | DIGITALSOULS.COM | New Media Art | Philosophy | Culture
Brian Eno’s original essay on the origins of The Long Now Foundation. It is ten years old—a long time on the web and 1% of a millennium.
Humans are capable of a unique trick: creating realities by first imagining them, by experiencing them in their minds. When Martin Luther King said “I have a dream…” , he was inviting others to dream it with him. Once a dream becomes shared in that way, current reality gets measured against it and then modified towards it. As soon as we sense the possibility of a more desirable world, we begin behaving differently – as though that world is starting to come into existence, as though, in our minds at least, we’re already there. The dream becomes an invisible force which pulls us forward. By this process it starts to come true. The act of imagining something makes it real.
The Birth of Low-Rise on Vimeo
Building a city with staples in thirty hours.
TIME CAPSULE ..::HOME::..
On 18 May 2010, the Planets (Preservation and Long-term Access through Networked Services) Project deposited a time capsule in the vaults of datacenter, Swiss Fort Knox, in Saanen, Switzerland. It contained the decoding information for five digital file formats on media ranging from paper, microfilm and floppy discs to CDs, DVDs and USB sticks.
Constant Setting
This URL displays a picture of a sunset (from Flickr) taken wherever the sun is setting right now.
A History of the World in 100 Seconds on Vimeo
A gorgeous visualisation of Wikipedia data from History Hack Day. Watch the shape of the world emerge over time.
YouTube - Il était une fois… les technologies du passé.
French schoolchildren are given technological tools that are less than thirty years old and asked to describe what they do.
MODERN TIMES on Vimeo
A gorgeous sci-fi short film with some fine interface porn.
Archive Fever: a love letter to the post real-time web | mattogle.com
Matt encapsulates a lot of what I've been thinking about recently: the real-time web is all well and good, but let's not forsake the enormous potential for fulfilment in archives.
Time Zones
A very handy tool for planning intercontinental communication.
Evening edition - Bobulate
A lovely idea, nicely implemented: time-conditional CSS.
The Story Behind a Wikipedia Entry - NYTimes.com
James Bridle's dConstruct artefact is in the New York Times.
YTTM.tv - Pick a year, click refresh, and TRAVEL THROUGH TIME.
YouTube Time Machine: this is beautiful and fascinating. Set phasers to WWILF.
Abyss & Apex : Fourth Quarter 2007: Wikihistory
An oldie but goldie: time travel in the age of the internet.
Times Skimmer by The New York Times
Beautifully done with HTML5 and font linking.
Immaterials - Talks - BERG
Matt Jones on sociality, data, radio and time.
The Value Class Pattern - Articles - MIX Online
A microformats article by yours truly, reworking a blog post from a while back about the value class pattern.
The Pushbutton Web: Realtime Becomes Real - Anil Dash
Anil Dash writes about the realtime web, calling it Pushbutton.
Rules for Time Travelers | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine
How to ensure consistency in time travel narratives.
The Worldwide System
A proposal for decimal time and measurement. It'll never defeat inertia but I love seeing the thought process that's gone into it.
Long Now image - Photos: The 10,000 Year Clock - CNET News
Pictures of some prototypes of the clock of the Long Now.
Volunteers Put The Economist Into Chinese - NYTimes.com
Andy Baio gets his first by-line in a national newspaper (based on an article from Waxy.org).
Epeus' epigone: A load of Thunderer
Kevin does an excellent job of Fisking that ludicrous anti-Twitter article in The Times.
Making the most of hereish and nowish on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
The Possibility Jelly lives on the hypersurface of the present.
The Ten Days of Newton - Olivia Judson Blog - NYTimes.com
On the tenth day of Newton, My true love gave to me, Ten drops of genius, Nine silver co-oins, Eight circling planets, Seven shades of li-ight, Six counterfeiters, Cal-Cu-Lus! Four telescopes, Three Laws of Motion, Two awful feuds, And …
The Screens Issue - If You Liked This, Sure to Love That - Winning the Netflix Prize - NYTimes.com
The Napoleon Dynamite problem at Netflix: basement hackers and amateur mathematicians are competing to improve the program that Netflix uses to recommend DVDs — and to win $1 million in the process.
jQuery.timepickr.js
John Resig offers an alternative user interface for selecting a time.
Virtual Worlds
An interactive, collaborative timeline of the history and development of virtual worlds, open for anyone to edit.
LIVE REAL TIME SATELLITE AND SPACE SHUTTLE TRACKING
A real time satellite tracking web application. Over 8000 satellites are tracked and can be displayed on the familiar Google Maps interface.
Looking Back: How Different Groups Voted
A really nice interactive infographic from the New York Times.
twistori
Realtime visualisation of feelings on Twitter. I can't help but think that present continuous emotions would have yielded better results; loving, hating, thinking...
Gmail: Google's approach to email
New from GMail: send email back in time. "Gmail utilizes an e-flux capacitor to resolve issues of causality." In all seriousness though, remember when GMail launched on April 1st, 2004 and everyone that it was a joke?
It's just you.
A handy little RESTful ping service to answer the eternal question: "is it just me or is my site really down?"
UIE 2008 | Links from Andrew DeVigal's Presentation
Andrew gave a peak under the skirts of The New York Times in his presentation at the Web Apps Summit. Here's a list of the demos he showed.
They’re Working on Their Own, Just Side by Side - New York Times
Coworking is on the radar of mainstream media. This article even includes a mention of Brighton & Hove's very own The Werks.
Waxy.org: Daily Log: The Times (UK) Spamming Social Media Sites
Andy Baio does a nice bit of investigative journalism in exposing the social network spammer hired by The Times. The internet treats crass marketing as damage and routes around it.
Katemonkey.co.uk: X-UA-Lemur-Compatible
The timeline behind Microsoft's latest announcement.... as told by stuffed lemurs.
The Magical Minimalism of Microformats - Open - Code - New York Times Blog
This makes me feel all warm and fuzzy: the New York Times talking about microformats.
The Global Sympathetic Audience - New York Times
An article about Twitter focusing on one threatened suicide and one averted break-up. Leisa and her excellent phrase "ambient intimacy" are quoted.
The Marble of Doom
Contribute to the pool of data by inputting how much time you've wasted watching the spinning beachball of death.
Brighton to London, leaving at 14:00 - Accessible UK Train Timetables
A new feature on Matthew Somerville's brilliant train timetable site. Just put /fares at the end of any URL to get the cheapest available fare.
Times to Stop Charging for Parts of Its Web Site - New York Times
Excellent news from the New York Times: no more charging for content. Finally, I can link to NYT articles from blog posts (and del.icio.us).
Packing Sucks on Vimeo
In preparation for their move to Brighton, Simon and Nat have recorded a time-lapse video of their packing stuff.
circaVie | Create and Share Timelines
From the people who brought you Ficlets comes a nice app for creating personal timelines. Microformats and OpenID support included.
Twitterverse
A new project from Idea Codes (Emily Chang and Max Kiesler): a tag cloud for Twitter.
Adobe Labs - Apollo
The first public alpha release of Apollo is out. Grab the runtime and then play around with some of the sample apps (none of which are that impressive but it's the thought that counts).
Time, History and the Internet - barcamplondon2 on take one onion by Gavin Bell
Gavin Bell has posted the slides from his excellent talk at BarCamp London 2.
After 221 years, the world’s leading newspaper shows off a fresh face - Comment - Times Online
The Times redesigns.
The 9th Incarnation of ShaunInman.com // ShaunInman.com/post
Shaun is pushing the boundaries of CSS as an indicator of the passage of the time. I'm really happy to see this kind of experimentation: this is exactly why we want separation of content and presentation.
dog or higher: phone sex with mars - or why latency matters as well as bandwidth
Brian Suda has a theoretical solution to real-time interplanetary communication: "I get on my tachyon voip phone and make a call from mars to earth at 9:00am it takes 10 minutes to travel there, but the tachyons travel backwards (so i think) that would be
Ezprezzo.com - Aircraft carrier entirely made of Lego
It's an aircraft carrier. Made entirely out of Lego.
TIME Magazine -- The Road Ahead
A fun debate featuring Tim O'Reilly, Esther Dyson, Malcom Gladwell, Clay Shirky and Moby.
Veer: Ideas: Etched In Stone
The unstoppable rise of Trajan.