Xaviera López
Beautiful animation work.
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First Time User Experiences
Krystal’s excellent annotated collection of onboarding examples.
70s Sci-Fi Art
Sci-fi book covers and posters from the 1970s.
Swear Trek
Slack ammo.
Yoda Cakes Gone Wrong
Disappointed in your cakes I am.
Bowiebranchia
Nudibranchia or other opisthobranchia compared to the various looks of David Bowie.
Classic Programmer Paintings
Painters and Hackers: nothing in common whatsoever, but this are classical painters depictions of software engineering.
The Secret Lives of Tumblr Teens | New Republic
A fascinating insight into some of Tumblr’s most popular accounts:
Some posts get more than a million notes—imagine a joke whispered in biology class getting a laugh from a city the size of San Francisco.
It’ll be a real shame when Tumblr disappears.
That’s “when”, not “if”. Remember:
In 2013, Yahoo bought Tumblr.
2 Kinds of People
Dividing the world in two.
Accessibility Wins
Marcy’s Tumblr blog of examples of accessibility in action on the web.
100 days: Archive
You might want to keep an eye on what the Clearlefties are doing here for the next hundred days.
One down, 99 to go.
Beautiful Maps
Cartography porn.
High Street Shops In Sci Fi Films
I’m not quite sure why this is funny, but I am quite sure that it is.
Pop Sonnets
Modern pop songs retold as Shakespearian sonnets.
Panorama Fail
The image-stitching algorithm is trying its best.
The Camera in the Mirror
Kubrickian pictures taken by the Google robot wherein it captures its own reflection.
Hamburger Fancy: Archive
This Tumblr blog has the grandiose ambition of being “a showcase of the hottest hamburger icons on the web”, but amazingly, they’ve actually succeeded in documenting every single example of a cool hamburger icon.
Signs from the near future
We better get used to them…
Screen shots of computer code
There’s something very satisfying about this televisual sleuthing:
Images of the computer code appearing in TV and films and what they really are.
Tab Closed; Didn’t Read
Usually I find these kinds of name-and-shame collections to be unnecessarily mean-spirited. In this case, the sites being named and shamed are themselves guilty of far worse rudeness.