{"id":7389,"date":"2013-03-05T13:01:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T18:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/openmatt.org\/?p=7389"},"modified":"2019-02-26T12:44:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T20:44:01","slug":"amazing_things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-learning\/amazing_things\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing things on the web this week: cat maps! cardboard computers! old timey emoticons!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativeapplications.net\/objects\/all-about-cardboard-workshop-by-niklas-roy-cardboard-plotter\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.creativeapplications.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/animation_speedwaypro1000_550x.gif\" width=\"440\" height=\"291\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativeapplications.net\/objects\/all-about-cardboard-workshop-by-niklas-roy-cardboard-plotter\/\">Building computers from cardboard<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/webmaker.org\">Mozilla Webmaker<\/a> is all about helping people make something amazing on the web<\/strong>. So we&#8217;re asking our community each week:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What&#8217;s the most amazing thing *you* saw on the web last week?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Some links and answers from our community this week below<\/strong>. These are meant to inspire our own work, identify emerging memes or trends Webmaker should jump on, and just generally surprise and delight. Let us know the most amazing thing *you* see on the web each week:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mail.mozilla.org\/listinfo\/memes\"><strong>On our new &#8220;memes&#8221; newsgroup<\/strong><\/a>. Send your coolest memes and amazing stuff to memes [at] mozillafoundation [dot] org<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Webmakers\/Community_Calls\">At the start of each weekly Mozilla Webmaker call<\/a><\/strong>. Every Tuesday.<\/li>\n<li><strong>On twitter<\/strong>. Using the #webmaker hashtag.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2><b>Amazing video and stuff that moves:<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/popcorn.webmadecontent.org\/pc9\">How to Hack Paper<\/a>.&#8221;<\/strong> Hive NYC Popcorn Storycamp Challenge: create a 60-sec commercial\u00a0 for any media format. Made by awesome mentors at DreamYard in the Bronx<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/video.pbs.org\/video\/2322911761\"><strong>Video: The Art of Creative Coding<\/strong><\/a>. PBS video on the art of webmaking<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/3\/4\/4064574\/nins-head-like-a-hole-mashed-with-call-me-maybe-is-perfect\">Nine Inch Nails \/ Call Me Maybe mashup<\/a><\/strong>. It actually kinda works.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=5HrrbkYJM2M\">Six-year old wins breakdancing battle<\/a><\/strong>. It&#8217;s cut-throat!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/openmatt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Delaunay-Painter.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-7391\" alt=\"Delaunay Painter\" src=\"http:\/\/openmatt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Delaunay-Painter-1024x554.png\" width=\"467\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>Amazing whimsy, art <\/b><b>and p<\/b>lay<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/static.mrdoob.com\/lab\/javascript\/delaunay\/painter\/\">Delaunay Painter<\/a><\/strong><b>. <\/b>Trace around the image and watch it render an abstracted variant on the right. Kiss productivity goodbye!<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.zsl.org\/maps\/catmap\">Cat Map! <\/a><\/strong>London Zoo&#8217;s &#8220;Cat on a Map.&#8221; Oddly compelling.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/BEmNMO6CUAA_wDG.jpg:large\" width=\"274\" height=\"230\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/qikipedia\/status\/308933290746859520\/photo\/1\">Emoticons from 1881<\/a><\/strong>. You thought they were new?<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5988426\/the-man-who-created-one-of-the-first-internet-memes--before-the-internet\">The man who created internet memes &#8212; before the internet.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/static.zsl.org\/images\/width715\/cat-map-13271.jpg\" width=\"429\" height=\"296\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Amazing reads and thinks:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2013\/02\/why-does-privacy-matter-one-scholars-answer\/273521\/\">Why does privacy matter? <\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativeapplications.net\/objects\/all-about-cardboard-workshop-by-niklas-roy-cardboard-plotter\/\">How to make computers from cardboard, rubber bands and rope<\/a><\/strong>. Beautiful!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.creativeapplications.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/plotter_total_hires-640x450.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla Webmaker is all about helping people make something amazing on the web. So we&#8217;re asking our community each week: What&#8217;s the most amazing thing *you* saw on the web last week? Some links and answers from our community this &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-learning\/amazing_things\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[378228],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}