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The Quilt Index · quiltindex.org. The Quilt Index is an open access, digital repository of thousands of images, stories and information about quilts and their makers drawn from hundreds of public and private collections around the world. The Quilt Index is a digital humanities research and education project of the Matrix: The Center.
A 1929 Interview with a 103-Year-Old Man - kottke.org
2020年2月19日 · This interview with 103-year-old Galusha Cole filmed in 1929 is another instance of this phenomenon: This was part of a series of interviews with the elderly on the cusp of the Great Depression. Cole was born in 1826 during the administration of John Quincy Adams, was alive at the same time as Ludwig van Beethoven, and lived just long enough to ...
About Kottke.org
About Kottke.org. Founded in 1998, kottke.org is one of the oldest blogs on the web. It’s written and produced by Jason Kottke and covers the essential people, inventions, performances, and ideas that increase the collective adjacent possible of humanity. Frequent topics of interest among the 26,000+ posts include art, technology, science, visual culture, design, music, cities, food ...
The Cube Rule of Food, the Grand Unified Theory of Food …
2018年12月10日 · Into the fracas steps @phosphatide with their brilliant Cube Rule of Food. The idea is that you can fit all food into one of seven categories based on where the starch in a dish is positioned: For example, enchiladas, falafel wraps, and pigs in a blanket are all sushi because the starch covers four sides of the cube like so: Likewise, pizza is ...
Powers of Ten, Updated With Current Science - kottke.org
2022年1月5日 · Charles and Ray Eames’ 1977 short film Powers of Ten is one of the best bits of science communication ever created…and a personal favorite of mine. Here’s a description of the original film: Powers of Ten takes us on an adventure in magnitudes. Starting at a picnic by the lakeside in Chicago, this famous film transports us to the outer edges of the universe.
A Phonetic Map of the Human Mouth - kottke.org
2019年3月22日 · A Phonetic Map of the Human Mouth. This infographic from Language Base Camp shows where the sounds that English speakers use are produced in the mouth and throat. I’ve had zero voice training in my life, so it was really illuminating to speak all of the different sounds while paying close attention to where in my mouth they were happening.
Public Work: A Fast Search Engine for Public Domain Images
2024年7月31日 · Public Work is an image search engine that boasts 100,000 “copyright-free” images from institutions like the NYPL, the Met, etc. It’s fast with a relatively simple interface and uses AI to auto-categorize and suggest possibly related images (both visually and content-wise). And it’s fun to just visually click around on related images.
The Kottke.org Archives
Tag pages. A growing number of posts on kottke.org have been "tagged" with keywords. Some of the tag pages have dozens or even hundreds of entries, almost like they're slow-moving topical blogs. Warning: you will get lost down some rabbit holes with these. Some recommended starting points. soccer. Sun. remix.
Nature By Numbers
2020年5月20日 · Nature By Numbers. This lovely short film by Cristóbal Vila shows how the simple Fibonacci sequence manifests itself in natural forms like sunflowers, nautilus shells, and dragonfly wings. See also Arthur Benjamin’s TED Talk on the Fibonacci numbers and the golden ratio and the Fibonacci Shelf. (via @stevenstrogatz) Arthur Benjamin.
A Blinking Map of the World’s Lighthouses - kottke.org
2021年5月4日 · Courtesy of Geodienst, this is a map of the world’s lighthouses. Where the data is available (and you can see it’s quite sparse for some areas of the world), the map shows the location, color, range, and flashing frequency/pattern of each lighthouse. The color and flashing pattern of a lighthouse is called the characteristic. Each ...