The Daily Viz is a weblog devoted entirely to data visualization. Each day the author finds and posts a new chart or graphic, some found, some created. Fascinating stuff.
Via BoingBoing: Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling. This list can apply to many other creative pursuits as well.
Via my friend Nate, a great and sobering read about the indie game development industry, featuring two guys I used to work with in another life: Civil War: The Public Death of Mad Minute Games.
Park Tool Co. has a weblog set up full of helpful bicycle maintenance tips. My bike needs a lot of maintenance, given that I’ve deferred it for about 10 years, so this will be a handy guide.
In Small Things That Give Me Hope For Humanity news, The house from My Neighbor Totoro does in fact, exist, and you can tour it.
I like the design and love the idea of this website: Atlas Obscura bills itself as a compilation of “Curious and Wondrous Travel Destinations”.
I like Safari’s Reader feature for decontenting web pages and making things easier to digest; however I use Firefox exclusively. Readability is a plugin for Firefox that adds Reader’s functionality plus adds an Instapaper read-it-later-on-your-phone feature. I skipped the registration step (I don’t need another app on my phone right now) and it works beautifully.
Here’s a real nice salute to an old friend: Flickr Is Back, Letting Us Go Home Again.
This is a great resource (although it’s legally skewed towards people who live in Washington State): Get Your Shit Together. The author’s husband died suddenly and she learned the hard way just how unprepared they both were.
I love the Internet. Wikipedia has an entry for the Yeah! Woo! sample (think: It Takes Two, Rob Base and DJ EZ Rock).