- 09/30/15 - C51 Voter - Pledge to vote for a candidate who will repeal Bill C51. (www.c51voter.ca)
- 09/29/15 - Higher horsepower - An illustrated 215-year history of the popemobile (www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/local/2015-papal-visit/popemobile-illustrated-history)
- 09/28/15 - Marginal Revolution - Small steps toward a much better world. (marginalrevolution.com)
- 09/27/15 - Mail Trap - Mailtrap is a fake SMTP server for development teams to test, view and share emails sent from the development and staging environments without spamming real customers. (mailtrap.io)
- 09/26/15 - Years You Have Left to Live, Probably - Watch your possible lifespans drop and bounce into statistical buckets. (flowingdata.com/2015/09/23/years-you-have-left-to-live-probably)
- 09/25/15 - Life After a Total Hack - LinkedIn, eHarmony and Last.fm were all hacked wide open recently. But what would happen to us if everything got compromised? (www.buzzfeed.com/jcmethven/life-after-a-total-hack)
- 09/24/15 - Meldium - A simple and secure password manager with single sign-on for over two thousand apps. (www.meldium.com)
- 09/23/15 - fukushima - A photo esaay from Fukushima, Japan. (www.podniesinski.pl/portal/fukushima)
- 09/22/15 - Jacob Thomas Brewer - Jake Brewer died at 3:40 pm on September 19, 2015 in a bike accident.
"Armed with a brilliant mind, a big heart, and an insatiable desire to give back, Jake devoted his life to empowering people and making government work better for them. He worked to give citizens a louder voice in our society. He engaged our striving immigrants. He pushed for more transparency in our democracy. And he sought to expand opportunity for all," President Obama said in a statement. (jakememories.org) - 09/21/15 - Make Everything - How To Make Everything aims to explore everyday things many of us take for granted. Andy George, host of the show, attempts to craft items entirely by hand, but first he must gather the raw ingredients as they would be found in nature. (makeeverything.tv)
- 09/20/15 - Undercover Reporting - Deception for Journalism's Sake: A Database. (dlib.nyu.edu/undercover)
- 09/19/15 - Ig Nobel 2015 - The 2015 Ig Nobel Prizes have been awarded. (www.improbable.com/ig/2015)
- 09/18/15 - Momentum for Change - An initiative of the UN Climate Change secretariat to raise awareness about scalable action to address climate change. (unfccc.int/mfc2014)
- 09/17/15 - Soviet Bus Stops - Likely the largest collection of Soviet Bus Stops ever assembled. (maptia.com/chrisherwig/stories/soviet-bus-stops)
- 09/16/15 - Camera Restricta - A disobedient tool for taking unique photographs. (philippschmitt.com/projects/camera-restricta)
- 09/15/15 - Send Harper a Message - Stephen Harper has taken Calgary for granted. While we won't likely see much of him in Calgary this election, you can send him a message in his riding in Calgary-Heritage. (www.sendharperamessage.ca)
- 09/14/15 - earth - A real-time global map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions. (earth.nullschool.net)
- 09/13/15 - Wait But Why - A website for people who like websites. (waitbutwhy.com)
- 09/12/15 - Grammar - An Interactive Guide to Ambiguous Grammar. (www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-ambiguous-grammar)
- 09/11/15 - Atlas - The new home for charts and data, powered by Quartz. (atlas.qz.com)
- 09/10/15 - Imagine Oct 20th - The Canadian Federal Election is October 19th. Imagine the next morning. (imagineoct20th.com)
- 09/09/15 - The True Size Of... - How it works 1. Enter a country or state name 2. Hover over selection for size information 3. Click on selection to drag 4. Right-click on selection to delete (thetruesize.com)
- 09/08/15 - Sociality Barbie Instagram - Satirizing the great millennial adventurer trend in photography. (instagram.com/socalitybarbie)
- 09/07/15 - Manifest Density - Use this interactive map to figure out how many sparsely populated flyover states it takes to equal one densely packed New York City. (www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2014/10/population_map_use_our_interactive_map_to_figure_out_how_many_flyover_states.html)
- 09/06/15 - Scottish Handwriting - Online tuition in palaeography for historians, genealogists and other researchers who have problems reading manuscript historical records written in Scotland in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. (www.scottishhandwriting.com)
- 09/05/15 - The Local Parliament Project - One of Canada's largest public opinion polls ever. Throughout the 2015 general election they are surveying Canadians to find out not only for whom they intend to vote, but what issues are important to them. We are generating important insights about how public opinion varies across the country, about how Canadians are linked to their communities and about how this matters for their political choices. (www.localparliament.ca)
- 09/04/15 - Tracking Ivory - Tracking the Illegal Tusk Trade. (www.nationalgeographic.com/tracking-ivory)
- 09/03/15 - The xkcd survey - The best survey you'll ever take. (docs.google.com/forms/d/1e8htNa3bn5OZIgv83dodjZAHcQ424pgQPcFqWz2xSG4/viewform)
- 09/02/15 - Pantone Smoothies - A delicious color experiment. (pantonesmoothies.com)
- 09/01/15 - How The Ballpoint Pen Killed Cursive - Thicker ink, fewer smudges, and more strained hands: an Object Lesson (www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/08/ballpoint-pens-object-lesson-history-handwriting/402205)
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