Heya,
Great ideas are easy to come by; living up to them and seeing them through...well, that there is more complicated.
This week we celebrate two brave souls who got it done. I found two 10/10 for commitment links this week. We have the power of randomness and the comfort of order. BizarroDevs brings binaries together.
I scuff my shoes with a time warp in Vegas baby, Vegaaaaas, the end of the meme era, some cool tools using science, and more.
Bizarro Devs
πΈοΈ The Cool Side of the Web
Brutalist Web Design removes the fluff and doubles down on the content.
However, it really depends on accepting the definition that a website is a method for delivering content only. Some of the principles are nice tho; no excessive pagination is something I can get behind.
brutalist-web.design
ζ ͺεΌδΌη€Ύγγγ·γ£γγ€ is a fashion website.
As far from Brutalist Web Design as you can get.
I know there are people, like my best friends, who would have gotten out of there the minute they saw it. But I didn't. I gotta admit somethin', I liked it.
The Museum of Broken Relationships is a tough website to visit. π
A great place to share your heartbreak stories of human-human relationships.
Don't be bringing stories about football and pizza here; no one cares.
Comprehensive guide to starting and building a blog. βοΈ
It's a heart warming story. These writers went from zero to 150,000+ readers in a few years.
My wife just started blog, so you can imagine how excited I was to find this.
Tracking memes by month and year (2014-2017).
Memes ain't what they used to be, and this tumblr. captures the end of an era.
tumblr.com
πΊπΎ An incredible montage of dance moments from almost 300 feature films. ππΌ
Somewhere in New York Clay Shirky is dancing. He doesn't know why. But he's happy damnit.
openculture.com
π€ Robots et. al.
Meet Compressorhead the all robot metal band.π€
Brilliant
Mega Wattson is the lead vocalist and thumping heart of a band remniscent of Motorhead.
Restaurants are using facial-recognition software to remember how you like your burger. π
Gotta be honest this one kills me. I instituted a restaurant rotation precisely to avoid being recognized.
Do I have a burger problem? Maybe.
AI could read your handwriting to figure out your nationality.
Massively inappropriate
AI researchers propose the technique would be useful for crime investigations, then they say it can only identify people from Malaysia, Iran, China, India, and Bangladesh.
Hmmmm.
βοΈ Tools and Resources
Terminal based YouTube player and downloader.
The playa got game yo.
This neat little package will also convert to mp3, show video comments, create and save local playlists, search and import YouTube playlists.
Physics-based background scroll effects.
No fixed paths
The simulated physics really tie the animation together. Make your backgrounds pop.
CSS moon that orbits a CSS earth in real-time.π
Funky
The first of the solid 10 for commitment links. The CSS moon moves at the same speed as the actual moon. β€οΈ it.
π·οΈ Design & Development Arena
RE for Beginners.
Watching the watchers Jerry
Get started with reverse engineering in this web based workshop.
Developer makes apps to randomize his life, ends up seeing some crazy sh*t. π²
Great hair alert
Max is also a 10th dan kegel master. Another solid 10 for commitment.
π€ Articles of interest
The treasure hunters on a deadly quest for an eccentric's $2m bounty.
Goonies IRL
Great, if slightly dark, story about treasure, poetry, and pink guns.
End of the line: our guide to the death of the telephone. βοΈ
I'm living in twilight
You can imagine a time traveller being horrified that we ever spoke on telephones.
π Backwards talking dreams - Fun stuff
"Differential time rate meter" used to discover time warp just outside Las Vegas. β³
Near Area 51
I wasn't sure where to put this one; is it funny or interesting? Our friends at Fox earnestly report on shenanigans in the desert.
Outro
I'm gunna randomize all of the outro, you know why?
It's outta respect.
It means everything when it's got that swing, and that's why you'll find me on Twitter.
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Random word exercises supplied by Eddy DeBono.
Practice your handwriting and stay cool man,
Chris