The Friday Links

Well happy Friday everybody!

And where I live… it’s HOT!

Happy North American Holiday weekend.

Links time let’s gooooooo…

World’s largest wet collodion plate created in abandoned house converted into a camera

“Wet colldion” is basically the old school, 1800s-era method of photography.

A house…. That’s actually a camera. Insane.

There is a full 30+ minute documentary in this article. Worth a look. Just beautiful.

All The Minutes

“a Twitter clock by @studiomoniker”

This site will show tweets that state the current time based on your local computer’s clock.

A weird choice but okay!

BirdNet

Created by the an Ornithology team and a Machine Learning team at Cornell University.

“Our research is mainly focused on the detection and classification of avian sounds using machine learning – we want to assist experts and citizen scientist in their work of monitoring and protecting our birds.”

I used this to identify a red-tailed hawk that is nesting in my neighborhood. Pretty amazing technology here.

Mining Around Zenox

Sort of a “Lunar Lander” style game but without the concern of running out of fuel.

Challenging!

I hope you’re all still hanging in there wherever you are. It’s July! It felt like that would never get here.

Stay safe. Happy July. See you next week.

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Welcome to Friday everybody!

Officially Summer now. That feels good. Next week is a lot of holidays in North America. That also feels good.

But today is Friday! And you know what that means…

When You Use Face Swap App On Your Tattoo…

I love technology…

I could never have predicted this happening. It’s great.

NYTimes: How The Virus Won

“It started small. A man near Seattle had a persistent cough. A woman in Chicago had a fever and shortness of breath.”

A beautifully executed dynamic scrollable website story.

Also a devastating breakdown of the compound failures to stop this virus from spreading in the US.

Fun with statues! (36 Photos)

Old, but I had not seen it. Maybe you hadn’t either. They’re funny!

Survival Ball

Basically an arkanoid / breakout / pong game, but with extra tension.

Fun! Tense!

We have arrived at the end for this week.

I hope you are all safe, and healthy, and calm, and as happy as possible during all of this.

Enjoy your Friday, and the coming Summer week.

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Well how do ya like that? Friday! Huh!

All of a sudden.

This week was fast for me. Hopefully normal for all of you. Hope you’re all hanging in there.

Links time! This week I sadly only found three great ones.

Here we go.

{Shan, Shui}*

“Procedurally-generated vector-format infinitely-scrolling Chinese landscape for the browser.”

The result looks like a 15th century Chinese landscape scroll.

Codebase here.

Beautiful!

NoPaint

“Press PAINT if you like what you see or NO if you don’t”

A sort of randomly self-generated art… thing. But with human intervention and encouragement. Weird little site.

End Of Run

Use arrow keys or your mouse to move your square. Square counts up. You want to cover the target square with the same number.

It’s challenging!

It also has some delightful music.

And that’s that! All linked up.

Enjoy your Friday, and your weekend.

See you in seven days!

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It is Friday!

And we’re halfway through June already.

I hope you are all safe and well.

It’s links time! Here we go.

Window Swap

“Open a new window somewhere in the world.”

Volunteers live stream the view outside their window. I like this.

Virus Cafe

“You are matched with a random partner

You are given a deep question to discuss

You have 2 minutes to discuss it!”

So basically: brief chatroulette for covid-19.

Note: it installs a browser extension. It only uses Audio and Video. If none of that not your jam, totally understood.

A Parade of Earthly Delights: Floating Bosch Parade Celebrates Painter Hieronymus Bosch in Spectacular Aquatic Event

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Lots more on Instagram and YouTube.

Circular

Capture coins, avoid the bad guy. Simple. (Simple?)

Very addictive game which actually has delightful chiptune music.

Ta daaa! Friday. Links. Friday Links!!

Thanks for following along.

Happy weekend! (What’s that?)

See you next Friday.

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Happy Friday!

Apologies, this week was busy. And not a good one. And so I only have three links. And so I’m sorry.

1910’s America In Color

Using a film process known as “Autochrome”, color photography was possible far earlier than you may think. It was just very complicated and expensive.

Something about very old photography that either is color or has been colorized using modern techniques really makes it feel like it’s right now.

Related tangent: Marina Amaral is at the forefront of this and I thought it was worth mentioning her work.

Map Crunch

“Explore the world via Google Street View. MapCrunch teleports you to a random place in the world. Discover the vast array of imagery captured by Google in 50 countries, featuring spectacular scenery, magical moments and the utterly unexplainable”

I’ve posted a few of these over the years but this one has some truly unique destinations.

Since none of us can travel for real right now, this is okay.

Spend Bill Gates’ Money

Only $90 billion left…

That is what I’ve got.

Happy Friday! I hope its a good one where you are.

Hang in there. Have a great weekend.

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We have arrived at Friday, at last.

I hope you’re all doing okay. This has been a hell of a week.

It is link time! Let’s go.

Tomb of Queen Meresankh III (G 7530-7540)

More on the Queen here. She was the granddaughter of the Egyptian pharaoh Khufu – he of the most well-known classic pyramid.

She lived from c. 2620–2570 BC.

A lot of you saw last week’s virtual tour of Rameses VI and sent me htis, so thank you. It’s amazing.

This Word Does Not Exist

“This Word Does Not Exist uses an artificial intelligence model named GPT-2 to invent new English words.”

When I visited it it generated:

noun.

upflank

up·flank

1. a supporting part sideways “the upflank of the bay”
2. a word that does not exist; it was invented, defined and used by a machine learning algorithm.

Sort of making the rounds. If it becomes somewhat popular, I wonder if we’ll see these terms enter common usage.

The Remaking of Steve Buscemi

“Steve Buscemi has seen it all. He was hit by a car and a bus as a kid, was once stabbed in a bar fight, volunteered as a firefighter during 9/11, and somewhere along the way became one of the most accomplished film actors of his generation. And then tragedy struck: In 2019, Buscemi lost his wife of over 30 years. In a rare interview, Hollywood’s most beloved misfit opens up about anxiety, loss, and the hard work of getting through it all.”

This is a hell of a read. He’s an impressive figure.

Sent along by Jennifer R.

Song Trivia 2

Basically “name that tune / name that artist”, but multiplayer, and multiple choice (which makes it possibly too easy.)

This is up my alley.

Well there you go. Links! On Friday! We did it you guys!

I hope your weekend is most excellent.

See you in seven days. Hang in there. No joke.

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Holy crap it’s Friday already!

My week got busy, so I am a bit late posting today’s links. But also: what is time right now?

Here we go.

Pharaoh Ramesses VI Tomb – Matterport 3D Showcase

AKA “KV9”

More on the Pharaoh here, who reigned from 1145–37 BCE

There are some fantastic, extremely well-photographed views inside this tomb.

EveryMask

“ISRU COVID-19 PPE: A DIY face mask designed with as little as possible, for as many people as possible.”

This is actually ingenious!!

fyi: “ISRU” is NASA’s “In-Situ Resource Utilization” protocol for creating industry standard items using readily available items.

Inside the Flour Company Supplying America’s Sudden Baking Obsession

Suuuper interesting. I’ve never seen a time when there was literally a huge retail run on everything! It’s so weird. But especially flour and yeast.

Making the rounds, unsurprisingly.

Orb.Farm

“This is a virtual ecosystem where different species of creature can live, grow and die as part of a self-contained food chain.

Please:

Play

Experiment

& Observe”

It takes some practice to get everything to survive. Pretty interesting little virtual creation.

Suggested by Tia T.

Crocs: KFC Edition

Apparently 100% real. Jeeeeeee-zuss.

And no: do not want.

Thanks, but no.

No seriously no thanks.

And there we go! Friday: Linked!!

Hang in there everybody. We’ll get through this. Stay safe.

See you next Friday!

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Welcome back Friday, everybody!

Where I live, it’s supposed to be warm, sunny, lovely. It has not been. Which during lockdown turns out to be okay.

But come on! 🙂

So here we go…

Penguin Classics Cover Generator

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So simple! So recognizable! I love it.

The Hyper-Detailed Imaginary Cities Of Ben Sack

“Benjamin Sack makes amazing, large-scale pen and pencil drawings of fantastic cities, both real and imaginary.”

Holy crap yes he sure does. These are… ridiculous! (In good ways.)

Nature Mixer

“A customizable and immersive audio-visual nature experience to help you relax”

A pretty great little time waster, especially now.

SPACEX – ISS Docking Simulator

This is alleged to be pretty close to the actual interface used by real astronauts to train to dock the real Dragon Crew craft to the ISS.

It’s definitely challenging. You need some patience.

Note: most ISS docking is performed 100% automatically. This is only used when that process is broken or unavailable.

And there we go!

Fridaaaaay!

Have a great Friday and a lovely (“long”?) weekend.

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It’s Friday!

This week felt fast for me. I like measuring the weeks by Fridays.

And it’s links time! Let’s goooooo…

Jukebox

“We’re introducing Jukebox, a neural net that generates music, including rudimentary singing, as raw audio in a variety of genres and artist styles. We’re releasing the model weights and code, along with a tool to explore the generated samples.”

This is really incredible. Lyricaly super confusing but musically, melodically, and from an arrangement point of view: just fantastic!

The Frank Sinatra one cracks me up. It for some reason associates “Christmas Time” with hot tubs, and then that’s all he wants to sing about. Super strange.

Listening Together

“Two people starting to play the same song, at exactly the same time.”

It’s a tool from Spotify and I kind of love it.

This Website Will Self Destruct

That is… unless you post a message on it (anonymously.)

Sweet little idea.

Rocketpult

Fire the rocket to get started an dthen launch your projectile.

Once it’s in the air, fire side boosters to guide it to a specific target.

Suuuper challenging but a really fun game. Addictive.

There we go! That went fast too.

Have a great, safe, calm Friday and a wonderful, safe, healthy weekend.

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Happy Friday everybody!

You guys we did it! Friday!

I hope you are all doing well. Staying safe. Staying healthy.

And now: some Friday Links!

Akinbeat

“Show me music artists similar to…”

This works shockingly well. I gave it some pretty obscure artists and it correctly came back with a huge playlist of similar-sounding other artists. Sometimes via genre, sometimes artists from the same record label, who collaborated with the same producers, etc.

Pictured is my search for artists similar to Daniel Caesar. Not bad.

Well done.

Kevin Kelly: 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice

These are dynamite.

Somewhat making the rounds. Some genuinely valuable suggestions here.

Wealth, shown to scale

All you have to do is scroll to the right, and then gradually become shocked, depressed, and eventually enraged.

Covid Blaster

A purposely impossible arcade shooter. 🙂 If you don’t shoot the little corona viruses fast enough, they multiply exponentially.

Super frustrating!

Wash your hands 🙂

And that’s that! Fridayyyyyyy!!!

Have a great weekend everybody. Stay safe!!

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