Pizza Exchange Rate | FlowingData
This is a story about pizza and geometry.
The interactive widget here really demonstrates the difference between showing and telling.
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6, 97: Why scorpions?
A fascinating and inspiring meditation on aerodynamics.
B612 – The font family
B612 is an highly legible open source font family designed and tested to be used on aircraft cockpit screens.
Eclipse
A delightful bit of creative JavaScript from Cameron.
Metaballs
Metaballs, not to be confused with meatballs, are organic looking squishy gooey blobs.
Here’s the maths behind the metaballs (implemented in SVG).
The Joy of Sparks
This is so cool! The logs of the Indie Web Camp IRC channel visualised as a series of sparklines in the style of Joy Division/Jocelyn Bell Burnell.
Helium Dreams - The New Yorker
This article on airships has my new favourite sentence in the English language:
During the First World War, Germany and its allies ceased production of sausages so that there would be enough cow guts to make zeppelins from which to bomb England.
Of course it was Simon who pointed me to this. Of course.
concept ships
An online animated spaceship and experimental aircraft art magazine. Gorgeous.
BrianOberkirch.com – Oh, You Wanted the Douchy Web?
Brian says what we're all thinking (or rather, what we would all be thinking if we actually wasted valuable brain cells thinking about TechC*nt).
Tony Haile - Own Your Identity
Tony Haile—erstwhile traveling companion to Ben Saunders—has started a new project called Chi.mp which already has Josh Porter and Brian Oberkirch on board. Here's the accompanying blog.
Designing For Hackability » SlideShare
Brian Oberkirch's presentation from Webmaster Jam looks excellent.
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.
The Fox Tales » Blog Archive » All “signs” point to Firefox
This is just about one of the geekiest things I've ever seen. A crop circle of the Firefox logo. This is not Photoshopped.
Ezprezzo.com - Aircraft carrier entirely made of Lego
It's an aircraft carrier. Made entirely out of Lego.
Top 100 quotes from IRC
Some of this may offend. But it's really funny.