While snowflake has a negative connotation in modern American vernacular, snowflakes are actually pretty heckin cool! Check out this snowflake generator by Vivian Wu. It comes pretty close to capturing the real thing. Also, please teach your children that ALL snowflakes have three axises (six sides).
Endless Jingling
Endless Jingling was written and recorded by Josh Millard. It selects a handful of christmas songs at random from a collection of three dozen recordings, then jumps around randomly between them forever and ever and ever or until you reload for a new combination of songs.
This is both easy to listen to and disconcerting simultaneously.
Facebook On Anti Vaxxers
Did anyone think ten years ago, that this is where we’d be as a society? Conspiracy theories have a bigger platform than ever.
We are working to tackle vaccine misinformation on Facebook by reducing its distribution and providing people with authoritative information on the topic. We are starting by taking a series of steps
Source: Combatting Vaccine Misinformation | Facebook Newsroom
Flickr
Flickr will always have a place in my heart. It represents one of the last true bastions of the open web. It was one of the first places where I saw a community of like minded individuals come together. And from 2004-2008 it was a special time of growth and possibility. It may not have caught up with Instagrams of the world, but it’s still a pretty nice place. Hopefully it will survive the new post-Yahoo world. Kottke summed it up best:
Flickr was extraordinarily vital, for years. It still has so much to offer. Sometimes there’s something reassuring about a tool that’s still much the same.
Source: In praise of Flickr
Dead End Thrills
I recently came across a site called Dead End Thrills, which is a site that collects screenshots of video games, when available using in-game photography tools, or engine tools. It’s a great intersection of video games, photography, and art.