Lunar Codex
Time capsules on the moon, using NanoFiche as the storage medium.
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TimeGuessr
Where and when were these photographs taken?
It’s like that Chronophoto game I linked to with an added dimension of location.
A very simple rule
I have a very simple rule that serves me well: Don’t think too much about your life after dinnertime.
GB Renewables Map
A lovely bit of real-time data visualisation from Robin:
It’s a personal project created at home in Wales with an aim to explore and visualise renewable energy systems. Specifically, it aims to visualise live generation from renewable energy systems around Great Britain and to show where that generation is physically coming from.
In Search of Lost Time, by Tom Vanderbilt
Temporal standards bodies.
Explore the In Our Time archive | Braggoscope
Matt made this lovely website for spelunking and hyperlinking through the thousand episodes of Radio 4’s excellent In Our Time programme.
He’s also written a little bit about how he made it using some AI (artificial insemination) for the categorisation code.
Chronophoto - The Photographical History Game
This is a fun game—with the same kind of appeal as that Wiki History Game I linked to—where you have to locate photographs in time.
Latewood | A Working Library
As this year draws to a close, you might be tempted to make some ambitious new year’s resolutions for yourself. But maybe read this first.
Dormancy isn’t stagnant; it’s potentiating. It’s patient. If you’ve grown a lot in the past however many months or years and now feel that growth coming to a close, don’t fret right away. Wait. Reflect on what you’ve learned. Look for signs of spring. Move to where there’s water, if you need to. But don’t rush. There will be time again for running and jumping, when you’re ready.
Octavia Butler’s Science Fiction Predicted the World We Live In - The New York Times
A profile of the life and work of the brilliant Octavia E. Butler.
CSS Timeline
Here’s a remarkably in-depth timeline of the web’s finest programming language, from before it existed to today’s thriving ecosystem. And the timeline is repsonsive too—lovely!
The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet’s Time | The New Yorker
This story of the Network Time Protocol hammers home the importance of infrastructure and its maintenance:
Technology companies worth billions rely on open-source code, including N.T.P., and the maintenance of that code is often handled by a small group of individuals toiling away without pay.
Days Since Incident
I love this list of ever-increasing timelines. All that’s missing is the time since the Carrington Event, just to remind us what could happen when the next one hits.
Food Timeline: food history research service
The history of humanity in food and recipes.
The timeline of this website is equally impressive—it’s been going since 1999!
Applying pace layers to career paths | Clagnut by Richard Rutter
Yes, I’m a sucker for pace layers, but I think Rich is onto something here, mapping a profession onto a pace layer diagram.
Wiki History Game
This is fun (and addictive)! With every new entry pulled from Wikipedia, you’ve got to arrange it onto a timeline correctly.
Design and long-term thinking
I like this mashup of two diagrams: Stewart Brand’s pace layers and Stephanie DiRusso’s typology of design thinking.
Letters to the future
On one hand, it shows optimism, hope and compassion for the future of the planet. On the other hand, it shows the ever lasting detriment of our actions when it comes to single-use plastic.
Dribbble first 5k users.
Turns out I was the twelfth ever user of Dribbble—ah, memories!
Guarding Against Disposable Design — Smashing Magazine
Always refreshing to see some long-term thinking applied to the web.
1loc | Favorite JavaScript single line of code
This is very handy indeed! Quick one-line JavaScript helpers categorised by type.
And, no, you don’t need to npm install any of these. Try “vendoring” them instead (that’s copying and pasting to you and me).