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Fun Translations has a way to translate English into a range of 'languages'. 👯 Illustrations inspired by the one star reviews of National Parks.

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Aug 28, 2018

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📣 FUN WITH TRANSLATIONS AND STEVE THE EERIE SKYGLOW.

There's a lot to be said for internet culture.
Without the internet, we would never have heard the Dr. Dre-Medieval mashup.
And that's good enough for me.


🕸️ The Cool Side of the Web

Fun Translations has a way to translate English into a range of 'languages'. 👯

As Advertised
Fun. You have the obvious, Yoda, and the obscure, BCD/Punched Card.

funtranslations.com  


Illustrations inspired by the one star reviews of National Parks.

The Grand Canyon Is Quite Dusty
Love 'em all, but Sequoia is my favorite. Also includes the original reviews. People are brutal.

topic.com  


Rave DJ is an artificially intelligent mash-up machine. 🤖

More Smash Than Mash
It can feel like you're being assaulted at times, but when it works...woof.
Check this medieval meets Dr Dre mashup for the good.
Kudos to the devs for the site structure, ease of use, and stuff.

rave.dj  


ze34h3yf7x2e945ux8 is a Twitch live steam with a strange robot voice.

Weird
Turn the speakers down if you click through because the voice is annoying. Sometimes I can make out words and/or sentences but most of the time it's just creepy.
Love it.

twitch.tv  


Canned unicorn meat. 🦄

Found On eBay
Like most unicorn meats it is 87% horn, but still tasty.

ebay.com  


Top 500 most common passwords visualized. 🔓

Human Folly
My favorites:
bond007
garfield
trustno1

informationisbeautiful.net  


⚒️ Tools and Resources

An awesome website carbon calculator. 🌏

Really easy to use and help green the internet.

In total, the internet produces 2% of global carbon emissions, roughly the same as that bad boy of climate change, the aviation industry.

websitecarbon.com  


Making sure the CSS Double Helix gets its due.

Trippy
Everyone is getting excited about the CSS Carlton dance which means this awesome Helix is getting ignored.

codepen.io  


Visualizing the Earth's orbit & seasons.

Play Terra Mater
You can even mess with the axial tilt and make North and South poles East and West poles. Even Superman didn't do that.

codepen.io  


Funky CSS animation of a bicycle. 👻 🚴‍

Hypnotic
Slightly creepy if you spend too much time watching the footless pedal rotate.

codepen.io  


🕷️ Design & Development Arena

The Bewegen Bike Share System is very, very nice. 🚴‍

Site Of The Week
Amazing use of video, animation, scroll, and effects. Plus there's some great hair on display.

bewegen.com  


LinkedIn message generator will generate tech industry recruiter messages. 😨

Eerie
Almost too good at replicating the experience.

duberste.in  


Flexbox as an animated tutorial. 💪

Really cool animations of how flex works. If you're looking for more this was quite popular too. The straight dope on alignment in Flexbox.

medium.com  


A guide to combining fonts.

But Only If You Want To
I think this is the first article to explicitly say "1 font is ok too." Frankly, I'm not sure I can be trusted with even the single font, but...It's comforting.

betterwebtype.com  


Amiga Graphics Archive.

Trailblazer
I have some vague memories of a friend's Amiga. Gotta be honest, I genuinely did not know that the Amiga was such a big deal.

lychesis.net  


👩‍💻 Misc Tech

Why the future is arriving faster than you think. 🔮

Because You're Sleeping More
We might actually get to a point when
"I need this done yesterday"
is met with
"It is."

singularityhub.com  


Taiwan man rigs bike with 11 phones to play Pokemon Go. 📱

You Can't Put A Price On Pikachu.
Don't hate the playa hate the game. This clearly meets all statutes and definitions of the Super Gamer.

bbc.com  


👩‍🚀 Space

Eerie skyglow called 'Steve' isn't an aurora, is 'Completely Unknown' to science.

Mysterious Steve
I'm pretty sure Steve is Mavis' and John's kid. The one who comes around every weekend and eats all the cookies.

livescience.com  


Outro

Fun translation into Val Speak:

If you like to send links then us guys are always acceptin' thuh goods on Twitter.

We're always happy to expand thuh family, like, wow so feel free to forward like, ya know, this email on.

If us guys met through a forward, like then let's make it newsletter official with a subscription.

If you see Steve, fer shure tell that dude to introduce himself to science, like, wow they're lovely.

Stay awesome,

Chris.


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