200 discarded objects from a dump in San Francisco, meticulously catalogued, researched, and documented by Jenny Odell. The result is something more revealing than most pre-planned time capsule projects …although this project may be somewhat short-lived as it’s hosted on Tumblr.
Kevin made this handy catch-all service for hosting Tumblr blogs on their own domain (which can bypass Tumblr’s annoying Oath interstital). Here’s mine.
Analogue switches, dials, and buttons, buttons, buttons (just like that Flickr group I linked to).
The horror …the horror.
Beautiful animation work.
Krystal’s excellent annotated collection of onboarding examples.
Sci-fi book covers and posters from the 1970s.
Slack ammo.
Disappointed in your cakes I am.
Nudibranchia or other opisthobranchia compared to the various looks of David Bowie.
Painters and Hackers: nothing in common whatsoever, but this are classical painters depictions of software engineering.
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.
Dividing the world in two.
Marcy’s Tumblr blog of examples of accessibility in action on the web.
You might want to keep an eye on what the Clearlefties are doing here for the next hundred days.
One down, 99 to go.
Cartography porn.
I’m not quite sure why this is funny, but I am quite sure that it is.
Modern pop songs retold as Shakespearian sonnets.
The image-stitching algorithm is trying its best.
Kubrickian pictures taken by the Google robot wherein it captures its own reflection.