The 29 stations of the Yamanote Line
via youtube.com
YouTube user yamanote29stations has made 29 videos of the complete Yamanote line tour. 電車オタク at its finest - there's a certain melancholy to it as well.
As seen online and elsewhere
Light links, snippets and commentary by Andreas Bovens
Still walking
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Saw the beautiful movie Still Walking (歩いても歩いても) on the big screen a couple of days ago. Absolute masterpiece by Hirokazu Koreeda, full of subtleties and macro-like closeups of a Japanese family's activities and emotions throughout a 24-hour time span.
The fact that the subtitles were in Norwegian and I had to follow the Japanese dialogs instead made the feeling of "being there" more complete. Recommended!
Core Memory
When visiting the amazing Computer History Museum last weekend, I picked up a copy of Core Memory: A Visual Survey of Vintage Computers featuring gorgeous photos by Mark Richards. If you want to have a peek inside, there's Flickr coverage by 704 Race and Marchin Wichary.
Magic/Replace data cleanup
via cleanupdata.com
This seems to be an excellent tool for tedious data cleanup, especially the kind you can't ever be bothered making a macro/regex for "because it's only 20 lines"—every week again ;-)
marunouchi.com's liquid layout
Via @cpalmieri, this very interesting liquid layout experiment: try resizing marunouchi.com and you'll see that the content blocks are dynamically rearranged to fit in the screen width. Gives a bit of a mesmerizing effect.
My favorite bit in the (slightly convoluted) source code:<div id="fontsizeCheck" style="display: none;">This is
Dummy Text.This is Dummy Text.This is Dummy Text.</div>
:-)
CloudMade Maps
I had heard about OpenStreetMap before (and really dig the amazing community effort), but the CloudMade Maps Editor takes the open maps concept to a whole new level. Also check out the CloudMade Developer Zone for tools and libraries.
