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Memento Movi, a mini-app by Michael Condouris, is what you get when you use movies as a progress bar for life expectancy. Enter your birthdate and expected lifespan. Then select a movie from the list. The percentage of your life that you’ve lived is translated to the percentage through the movie you would be, which […]
Martin Wattenberg drew up a live visualization that shows colors mentioned in Bluesky posts, via the firehose. Just let the wave of calm wash over you. I’m sure there are many more mashups to come, but I’ll probably shift anymore sharing to Bluesky itself, so as not to inundate you with a firehose about using […]
The New York Times used swooping arrows to show vote swings left and right for the 2016, 2020, and 2024 elections. A shift left makes the section of an arrow blue, and a shift right makes a section of the arrow red. They show these arrows for demographic groups, too, which have static sizes, but […]
A $40 million superyacht called the Bayesian sank off the coast of Sicily, but the exact cause is unknown. The New York Times illustrated the possibilities: Reports immediately after the disaster raised the possibility that the Bayesian had been hit by a tornado-like disturbance called a waterspout, but the authorities don’t think that happened. Still, […]
In the early 1800s, botanist and painter Pierre-Joseph Redouté painted hundreds of lily and rose species. Nicholas Rougeux restored the illustrations by hand for an accurate and browsable catalog of flowers. Rougeux documented the tedious process. The illustrations organized by color are available as posters. (In case you need something nice to look at after […]
For The New York Times, Lily Boyce, Jon Huang, and Blacki Migliozzi made a game-like interactive that lets you explore the possibilities of winning the Electoral College. Simply drag a state towards one candidate or the other to see what else the candidate needs to win. Source link
From Russell Samora for The Pudding, “Crokinole is like a mashup of shuffleboard and curling, played on a tabletop board.” There is even a playable simulation that you can practice on. I need to get myself a Crokinole board. Tags: Crokinole, game, Pudding, Russell Samora Source link
Damage assessments from UNOSAT estimate that 66% of structures in Gaza are damaged as of September 6, 2024, of which 78% are moderately to severely damaged or destroyed. This is about 128,000 buildings. For scale, Reuters compared the count to all the buildings in Manhattan. Source link