From the Curious Corner of the Internet.. #19: Ants, Japan and maps.
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** The Curious Corner #19
Hi there! Thanks for opening this email! This month I’ve searched trough my entire reading list (over 1000 items now) to share with you some of the amazing things I come across.
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http://shahabalizadeh.deviantart.com/art/Monolith-470756869 * How often would you tinker around in Excel to get data to the format you want? This (https://www.transformy.io/#) makes it easy! * De-colonizing and anthropology research about data (http://blog.castac.org/2015/04/designing-tinn) . * Foundry list awesome show and tells (https://foundry.net) about Maker projects. * Pooling (https://github.com/thomshutt/infinite-monkeys/thomshutt) the wisdom of Hacker News, to generate a book. * A dashboard in it’s simplest (http://blinkenlights.jazzychad.net) form. * The Birth of Saké (http://www.birthofsake.com) . * Bits want to be linked to other bits. They need other bits. What do bits (http://kk.org/thetechnium/2014/09/what-bits-want) want? * The Museum of Modern Art in New York has a digital (http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2015/04/14/momas-digital-art-vault) museum! * A self-powered (http://www.cs.columbia.edu/CAVE/projects/self_powered_camera) camera. * This small newsletter is curated, but Jason Hirschhorn (http://priceonomics.com/the-obsessive-curator-of-the-internet-jason) is surely a master. * I love old (http://www.davidrumsey.com/blog/2015/4/4/april-4-2015-15-342-new-maps-added) maps. * The Ten ‘Commandments (https://medium.com/gone/the-ten-commandments-of-sushi-4eac45192c7d) ’ of Sushi. Now this makes me hungry!
That’s it for this month! Any suggestions for the next edition? Email me at: jsplattel@gmail.com (mailto:jsplattel@gmail.com?subject=Curious%20Corner!) . On to the next edition
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