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Mavo: A new, approachable way to create Web applications
https://mavo.io/
Creates dynamic elements based on HTML properties
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hermitdave/FrequencyWords: Repository for Frequency Word List Generator and processed files
https://github.com/hermitdave/FrequencyWords/
Word-frequency lists, for multiple languages
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Idnan/bash-guide: A guide to learn bash
https://github.com/Idnan/bash-guide
Does what it says on the tin
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The Man in Seat Sixty-One - the train travel guide...
https://www.seat61.com/index.html
Exhaustive information on train schedules around the world
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Mad Max Fury Road production vehicles
http://www.johnplatt.com.au/prod-mad-max-vehicles.html
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Gomix
https://gomix.com/community/
A kind of web-based sandbox for finding existing code and playing with it.
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Awesome falsehoods
https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
Meta-list of documents detailing erroneous beliefs about maps, addresses, timekeeping, etc.
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Frank's compulsive guide to postal addresses
http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/postal/#europe
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TagSpaces - Your Hackable File Organizer
https://www.tagspaces.org/
Tag-oriented file organizer. Runs in browser.
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Expert-Level TextExpander Snippets
http://www.asianefficiency.com/technology/save-time-with-expert-level-textexpander-snippets/
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templatemaker.nl
http://www.templatemaker.nl/
Produces templates for custom boxes in a variety of shapes, sized to order
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The collapse of the US-EU Safe Harbor: Solving the new privacy Rubik’s Cube - Microsoft on the Issues
http://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2015/10/20/the-collapse-of-the-us-eu-safe-harbor-solving-the-new-privacy-rubiks-cube/
When people who care about technology look back at the year 2015, they will remember October as the month when the EU-U.S. Safe Harbor collapsed. An…
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The Inside Story of Apple’s New iMacs
https://medium.com/backchannel/exclusive-why-apple-is-still-sweating-the-details-on-imac-531a95e50c91
Early this year, the top-secret laboratory where Apple designs its Macintosh accessories was bedeviled by a crisis on tiny feet. It had to do with the…
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A Stanford professor's quest to fix driverless cars' major flaw
http://www.autonews.com/article/20151009/OEM06/151009815/a-stanford-professors-quest-to-fix-driverless-cars-major-flaw
Chris Gerdes, a professor at the Mechanical Engineering Design Group at Stanford University: “People often say the technology is solved, but I don't quite…
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How Steve Jobs Fleeced Carly Fiorina — Backchannel — Medium
https://medium.com/backchannel/how-steve-jobs-fleeced-carly-fiorina-79d1380663de
During Carly Fiorina’s triumphant performance in the wretched carnival that was the second Republican debate, she picked the perfect moment to play the Steve…
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The Right Wing's Fake History of the Second Amendment
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/right-wings-fake-history-second-amendment
The framers never intended the amendment to be construed as the right for individuals to take up arms against the Republic. Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com False…
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Facebook: I want out
https://medium.com/@violetblue/facebook-i-want-out-e1e891975531
I have to come clean. I just lied to two people I care about very deeply. I said I was “under the weather” as an excuse for not seeing them. But I’m not ill.…
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Made in the U.S.S.R. | Military Aviation | Air & Space Magazine
http://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/made-in-the-ussr-38442437/?all
View, from slightly above, of several Boeing B-29 Superfortresses flying in formation, 1945. Looking skyward on a June day in 1945, Muscovites saw a huge…
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The Darkness Before the Right
http://www.theawl.com/2015/09/good-luck-to-human-kind
A right-wing politics for the coming century is taking shape. And it’s not slowing down. It’s hard to talk seriously about something with a silly name, and…