Having the guts to say no to bad money.
Trust your gut.
Australian Pygmy-Possums Are Starving Because Billions of Bogong Moths Are Missing.
September is springtime in Australia, which means that thousands of mountain pygmy-possums are waking up ravenous after five months of hibernation in the Victorian Alps. They usually start feasting on the billions of bogong moths that migrate to the area, but two years ago, the moths stopped showing up.
Dead Dad Spring et al.
A collaborative effort to name every color in the RGB/web space.
The Center for Artistic Activism is a research and training institute dedicated to making activism more creative and art more effective. (Via visitsteve.com.)
From the department of redundancy dept.
Algorithm Visualizer is an interactive online platform that viualizes algorithms from code.
Learning an algorithm gets much easier with visualizing it.
Is he is or is he ain’t a Kaiser Wilhelm II?
meSpeak.js (modulary enhanced speak.js) is a 100% client-side JavaScript text-to-speech library based on the speak.js project, a port of the eSpeak speech synthesizer from C++ to JavaScript using Emscripten.
“widely supported” as in “supported by the latest browsers”.
The CSS feature for truncating multi-line text is now widely supported.
The Mutable Web.
What if Developer Tools, or a subset of them, was labeled Page Editor, or something similar? I bet people would figure out pretty quickly that when you're on a recipe blog and can't even see the content because of all the sticky ads and modals, you can just get rid of them. Fixing things we don't like about the websites we visit every day is a great way to start recapturing some of the autonomy, creativity, and active participation of the early web.
The birth of Inter.
How the new open source typeface used by GitHub and Mozilla came to be.
