Issue 56
Rappers, sorted by the size of their vocabulary. 🎤 Word Synth lets you experiment with words & music.
3 OR 4 STRANGE WEBSITES; 🎸MAKING GUITARS REALLY COOL 🎸; GREAT INTERACTIVE ANIMATIONS
Heya,
This week, you get just one Chris.
But! I did bring a bag of the best stuff from around the web. I think that the "Vocab" should be the new measuring unit we use for evaluating rappers.
🕸️ The Cool Side of the Web
Rappers, sorted by the size of their vocabulary. 🎤
There are a lot of surprises here; Ice T has a more extensive vocabulary than Kendrick Lamar? And he got to smoke with a Leprechaun?
pudding.cool
Word Synth lets you experiment with words & music.
This is a fun app which lets you change tempo, melody, scales, and get a very proper Englishman into your ears.
withgoogle.com
Experience Rembrant's Night Watch in interactive 3D. 🎨
A very enjoyable way to spend a lazy afternoon in the office; I've seen quite a few websites taking working with art and storytelling and I really enjoyed the interactivity here.
nightwatchexperience.com
This site tracks sharks, turtles, orcas on their daily excursions.
ocearch.com
🤩 Visually Pleasing
This new logo and identity for Montréal Alouettes is tasty.
Someone once asked how could you possibly make a Fender guitar cooler?
Then, Minh Pham made this brilliant 3D flip menu. And the beast was stunned.
So, I guess beauty is not, in fact, in the eye of the beholder but in the Dibble portfolio of Pham.
dribbble.com
⚒️ Tools and Resources
How to get Insta Stories without the spying.
Very, very cool way to add Insta "style" stories to your website without getting involved shady social media operators.
github.io
Layered Water interactive awesomeness. 🌋
This is the lava lamp of the internet and it is oddly satisfying to run your mouse over this rippling pool.
vlucendo.com
💕 For all of the lovers out there. A Valentine's Candy in CSS with quotes from romantic films.
The romantic films are supplied by WikiQuote which includes 'The Abyss' in the genre. There are some real gems in there.
codepen.io
Hypnosis using easing functions in JS. And, a ton of boxes.
codepen.io
This is for the web designers, developers, and their clients. The amazing disappearing website. 💁
This is the way you get money out of difficult clients: add opacity to the body tag and decrease it every day until the site fades away.
In Ray Liotta voice
You can't see your subscription form? Too bad, pay me.
What's that? Your menu looks faded? Too bad, pay me.
Your website disappeared, huh? Too bad, pay me.
github.com
🥇 World of WordPress
Icons Factory is currently my favorite plugin. You can really stylize the heck out of the icons, and that's great for everybody.
Also, somehow it's free.
wordpress.org
📈 Much memory. So lol. The WordPress theme design trends from 2003 to 2019. 📉
codeinwp.com
🤔 Articles of interest
Russia plans to cut itself off from the global internet. 🇷🇺
It would be pretty funny if they did and we discovered there's really only 150-220 actual people on the internet.
futurism.com
🎮 Fun & Games
Linjat is the only link that completely lives up to its name.
Drag the squares to create lines of the specified length; cover the dots; win. Have fun!
snellman.net
ascii world is an ascii keyboard game.
It's not the prettiest game you will see this year but the geek cred is through the roof.
github.io
Outro
Well, that went fast. My excessive linking has been curbed this week with another notch taken off the post.
If you have a link then I happily accept donations via Twitter.
Today is Charles' Darwin Day, so let's celebrate and honor the man by using our greatest evolutionary development; the forward. Forward this email to your friends, enemies, colleagues, and other miscellaneous humans.
If you received this email via a forward, then, by all means, join the highly evolved. Then, you can sign up here when you're done.
And, just like that the week is done.
Have a great week,
Chris
