Animations 🌀 Bob Ross 🌀 Translating Dog-Speak

Heya,

Back again with the choicest links, I could find in Slack. Last week I proposed a change to the schedule, and I think we will stick with weekly for the time being. I promise to work harder at reducing the linkage, even if this week is a fail.

This week, I was lucky enough to be inundated with great animations, including one animation of a great tv personality and all-round hero that sparks more joy than a t-shirt from childhood.

📰 From the Newsroom

Nice interactive article on how the internet takes form in China, Russia, Cuba and India. 🗺️

Twins get some 'mystifying' results when they put 5 DNA ancestry kits to the test.

The wildest innovations happening in science right now includes translating dog-speak, and body odor as the ultimate identifier. 😷

Fortnite is reportedly a money laundering hotbed.

🕸️ The Cool Side of the Web

Type Animations is an incredible collection of animations using...type. Inifinity and beyons is my favorite.

40075 is an interactive journey through world music.

This is the kind of web page made for all the peoples; something for music lovers, something for animation lovers. Therefore, something for everyone.

An ode to a more innocent era of piracy with some motion design that captures the glory of blank VHS covers.

A real-time animation of the speed of light as it travels between the Earth and Moon. If you're a lover of size and distance to scale, then you'll be glad you clicked. 🚅

Also, if you're into spacey stuff, which judging from the clicks you're not, this Deep Space Network site will tell you which antenna is communicating with which spacecraft. Again, in real-time with no locations redacted.

Domain Name Pricing Game gives you two domain names and you guess which is more expensive. 🏏

⚒️ Tools and Resources

Free vector illustrations from the team at Icons8. Ouch! has different styles and wide range of subjects.

Bob Ross dancing in pure CSS. 🎨

I have multiple reasons for sharing this:

Bob Ross is delightful (he transcends tense and will always be in the present)
<div class="fro"> is the best div ever.

Emoji Factory is a pen that will help you make your own emoji.

Seriously, at least a million dollars of idea here. Share it with social media lovers/workers to score some good karma.

Shots converts design patterns in to code with a simple click of the mouse. 🐁

5 of the best online cloud backup services to keep your data safe.

🕷️ Design & Development Arena

Pages and pages of dev tips for Chrome DevTools. 💁‍♀️

If you don't knowed already, then this is how to start a Node.js project.

[Long Read] The complexity of designing UX for children and usability. 🚸

Because, you know, design wasn't complicated enough.

Outro

And, that will wrap us up for another week. Help out with next week's issue; I'm always hunting for links, like Sega in the 80s, you can tweet your best at me.

Forwarding is not a wild innovation, but it is tried and true. And, that's what we need right now. Feel free to forward at your leisure.

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