Pangaea is a supercontinent that formed on Earth about 335 million years ago and began to break up about 175 million years ago, eventually forming the familiar continents of today. Massimo Pietrobon made a map that shows where our modern country borders would appear on Pangaea.
Category: Bookmarks
Reading about how Ancient Greeks described colours was a bit heavy reading as the first thing in the morning.
Yes, the ancient Greeks had words for blue.
The Google Fonts website provides a beautiful interface where you can preview all fonts, sorting them by trending, popularity, date, or name.
But what about the search functionality?
That’s where GooFonts comes in.
Google Fonts filtered by tags.
Cool idea for generating images.
Use generative art for your placeholder images
A really cool way to share WiFi passwords… Must try to see if I can print this on an NFC tag and have the best of both worlds…
Ever wanted to create a cool QR code for your guests? But never wanted to type in your WiFi credentials into a form that submits them to a remote webserver to render the QR code? QiFi for the rescue! It will render the code in your browser, on your machine, so the WiFi stays as secure as it was before (read the code if you do not trust text on the internet :-))!
An Adobe Photoshop alternative…
Photopea is an advanced image editor, which can work with both raster and vector graphics.
Given an ordered list of MP3 files hosted elsewhere on the web, Fourble serves them up as a podcast, with a frequency and start date of your choice.
Fourble generates podcasts from lists of existing MP3 files.
Let’s play musical cars, shall we? A total of 374 black-and-white ’65 Ford Mustangs hit some black-and-white xylophone keys to play the world’s first die-cast song.
via: kottke
It calculated my reading speed at around 750 words per minute. By that estimate, I should be done with War and Peace in about 13 hours 😃
Find out how long it will take you to read any book by using our book word count search. Search for a book, tell us how fast you read, and start reading!
If we had ten hours in a day, instead of 24, and if each of these hours had 100 minutes instead of 60, and if every minute had 100 seconds, our clocks would look like this, and the time would be …