Internet Is Awesome

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/29462285

I only just found out about this from Boing Boing, but it's really cool!

Interesting blog with cool animations and toys to understand some science about the Moon

https://www.famous-trials.com

Heard about this one on this video on Steve Lehto’s second channel.

In 2003, these guys found a secret nook in a shopping mall. They secretly built an apartment in there and squatted it. This lasted until 2007.

geteilt von: https://feddit.org/post/3251000

"The Landsat series of satellites has been observing Earth for over 50 years, collecting breathtaking imagery and invaluable data used to study our planet’s changing surface.

With a new online interactive, users can type in their name, then view and export the graphic of that name spelled out in Earth features found in Landsat images."

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/23900616

Look at it all. The low-res background that doesn't scale right. All the styled UI as just tables of images. The awkward typography.

Slappa da eel mon

The hardest riddle available on the internet

Neat open source implementation of Carcassonne, supports multiplayer and self-hosting

It's a small part of it overall, but this made me really get imaginary numbers

More than you ever knew you wanted to know about gears

Windows93

An interactive web app that shows you how much Mercator distorts the Earth by allowing you to set the center of it anywhere you'd like.

My eyeeeesss ahhhhh