- 11/30/12 - Bond Villains - Ask an Economist: Which Bond Villain Plan Would Have Worked (and Which Not)? (www.vulture.com/2012/11/which-james-bond-villain-plan-would-have-worked.html)
- 11/29/12 - Bold type - 13 opening-credits sequences better than the movies that follow. (www.avclub.com/articles/bold-type-13-openingcredits-sequences-better-than,88989)
- 11/28/12 - pungenerator.org - An easy way to generate tons of puns. (pungenerator.org)
- 11/27/12 - Superman Homepage - Everything you ever wanted to know about the Man of Steel. (supermanhomepage.com)
- 11/26/12 - National Well-being - ONS is developing new measures of national well-being. The aim is to provide a fuller picture of how society is doing by supplementing existing economic, social and environmental measures. (www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/user-guidance/well-being/index.html)
- 11/25/12 - Daily Odd Compliment - Why compliment your friends and loved ones the normal way? (dailyoddcompliment.tumblr.com)
- 11/24/12 - So Bad So Good - The Best and the Worst of the Web. (sobadsogood.com)
- 11/23/12 - theprezisnotimpressed.tumblr.com - The President Is Not Impressed. (theprezisnotimpressed.tumblr.com)
- 11/22/12 - GentleMint - Gentlemint is a place to find and share manly things. (gentlemint.com)
- 11/21/12 - Vanishing Spirits - The Dried Remains of Single Malt Scotch. (erniebutton.com/?portfolio=vanishing-spirits-the-dried-remains-of-singlemalt-scotch)
- 11/20/12 - Five GIFers for the serious-minded - When people think of GIFs, they often imagine a silly animation for a quick joke. But like any medium, it has potential beyond our cat-centric imagination. (blog.oup.com/2012/11/five-gifers-for-the-serious-minded)
- 11/19/12 - 23 Ancient Web Sites - That Are Still Alive. (gizmodo.com/5960831/23-ancient-web-sites-that-are-still-alive)
- 11/18/12 - How to Be a Hipster - 22 steps (with pictures) (www.wikihow.com/Be-a-Hipster)
- 11/17/12 - The History of Film - 2000 films, 20 genres, 100 years, 1 image. (historyshots.com/film)
- 11/16/12 - Random Hacks of Kindness - Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) is a global movement that connects developers from around the world with local non-profit organizations to help solve technological challenges. (peacegeeks.org/rhok)
- 11/15/12 - Reverse Engineering the 2012 Campaign - Political campaigns send many variations of each email to supporters. We've been collecting emails from political campaigns and tracking the variations. Here you can explore those emails. (projects.propublica.org/emails)
- 11/14/12 - Barack Obama's Banner Ads - The top-perfoming ads that elected a President... Twice! (barackobamadesigns.com)
- 11/13/12 - the useless web - Take me to a useless website. (www.theuselessweb.com)
- 11/12/12 - Disappearing Romney - Watch Mitt Romney's Facebook Likes Decrease in Real Time. (disappearingromney.com)
- 11/11/12 - What's Wrong With Online Reading - Thanks in part to efficient search engines such as Google, on-line reading has become for many the primary way that people read. This talk will discuss how a wide range of research in web usability, psychology, education, and communication theory provides corroborating evidence that on-line reading is transforming cognition, learning, and the very nature of knowledge in some disturbing ways. (www.slideshare.net/randyconnolly/whats-wrong-with-online-reading)
- 11/10/12 - Mathematical Coffins - A collection of difficult math problems with elegant solutions that possess a unique history. (tanyakhovanova.com/coffins.html)
- 11/09/12 - 2012 Election Maps - A collection of much more informative ways to present election map data. (www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2012)
- 11/08/12 - America: Elect! - The action-packed journey to US election day in graphic novel form. (www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2012/nov/06/america-elect-graphic-novel)
- 11/07/12 - Barack Obama - The once and future President of the United States. (barackobama.com)
- 11/06/12 - Every Woody Allen Movie - A chronological journey. (www.everywoodyallenmovie.com)
- 11/05/12 - 512 Paths to the White House - Select a winner in the most competitive states below to see all the paths to victory available for either candidate. (www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/11/02/us/politics/paths-to-the-white-house.html)
- 11/04/12 - Cosmos - A complete annotated collection of the popular PBS science series. (www.metafilter.com/121532/The-cosmos-is-also-within-us-were-made-of-starstuff-We-are-a-way-for-the-cosmos-to-know-itself)
- 11/03/12 - 11foot8.com - Low Clearance can be a real challenge for a truck driver. Especially inexperienced drivers of rental boxtrucks seem to be quite oblivious to the warning signs and flashing "overheight" warning lights at this railroad trestle in Durham, NC. So frequently do trucks crash into the 11-foot-8 clearance trestle, that the railroad company installed a crash beam in front of it. (11foot8.com)
- 11/02/12 - Caught on camera: engineering in action - The winning entries of the 2012 Photography Competition at the Department of Engineering, sponsored by Carl Zeiss, provide a stunning visual insight into the ways in which engineering makes a vital contribution to our lives. (www.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/stories/2012/photo_competition_winners)
- 11/01/12 - Quantum Blackboards - An artist visits the world's premier quantum mechanics labs. Beauty ensues. (alejandroguijarro.com/ongoing/blackboards)
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