You can zoom in, move around, discover the current location of a specific train, and then follow that train as it moves. It also has live cameras throughout.
This must have taken quite a bit of work. So crazy!
Choose the unit of measurement, enter the specific measurement you want, and print paper templates to make bags, cylinders, boxes (including lids, etc.) of your choosing.
And it’s the second- last Friday of this terrible, terrible year.
I unfortunately got a little too busy (xmas stuff) and everything in my city is back to being pretty well shut right down, so I only have a reduced amount of Friday Links for you.
We finally made it here. It feels both so fast and way, way too slow.
First: Kottke has compiled several “Best photos of 2021” lists which I recommend. Holy crap what a year.
We’re in the thick of the Christmas season and I threw together a few guides for charity and gifting.
As I do nearly every year, I recommend giving to Covenant House. If you have a roof over your head, food in your fridge, and a job to go to, it’s worth it to send some of your income to this charity.
And at spruce.com there is a list of the top 10 charities that help children specifically.
It appears that rather than just have one specific gift guide, the magazine industry in particular has split everything into weirdly specific groups of gift guides, indicating that ad impressions are more important than, you know, actually providing the info we’re looking for.
“Welcome to Daniel Newman’s website on the history of Arab cooking in the Middle Ages. The site combines two passions of mine, food and history. The site is much more than mere facts or historical background as it brings medieval recipes back to life through painstaking recreation of the original dishes.”
Use a scrollbar to zoom waaaaaaaayyyyyy down to the subatomic level, or way, way, wayyyyyyy up to the macro full-size universe scale.
This is fun to bookmark because you can turn to it while you’re on hold during a zoom call. There is never not something to learn about micro or macro scale objects.
“The purpose of the Theban Mapping Project is to design and implement existing condition reports and management plans for the archaeological sites of the Theban Necropolis.”
This is a great, great project. Explore the tombs of the pharaohs virtually supported by a crap-ton of white papers, reports, archives, etc. on the history and construction of these enormous historic structures.
“LEGO knows a thing or two about plastics. They manufacture hundreds of millions of Minifigures per year. These figures are assemblies with moving parts. Each one must work with every other LEGO ever created.”
An analysis of Lego minifigures using a CT scanner.
“The [re-wind] network explores the blades’ potential reuse in architectural and engineering structures, by proposing their reuse as protective bike shelters, or pedestrian bridges. one of these two ideas has already been implemented in the port of aalborg, denmark, where one can find an unusual bicycle garage, made from actual wind turbines that were once in use.”
