The Wilderness Downtown

“Enter the address of the home where you grew up.”

A Google Maps enhanced music video by Chris Milk for Arcade Fire, complete with beautiful boid swarming on the landing page.

Dropping the Spoon

Hypnagogia: “You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming?”

DIY Magic. via

Also: The Ganzfeld Technique

The Great Internet Migratory Box Of Electronics Junk

“A progressive lending library of electronic components. An internet meme in physical form halfway between P2P zip-archive sharing and a flea market.”

Awareness

via bk

Rain Caddy - Should You Water Your Lawn Today?

John, a previous student of mine, made this weather-aware application and entered it in the Apps 4 Climate Action contest.

Enter your (Canadian) address to see the average rainfall in your area over the last 7 days. John’s site uses data from Environment Canada’s 1079 weather stations. (See the Rain Caddy About page for a map of all these stations.)

Open Data for the win.

HTML5 Helicopter

Simple, addictive helicopter game written with HTML5 complete with source code.