December 1st

J! Archive

J! Archive is a fan-created archive of Jeopardy! games and players. There are 406,945+ clues from the 37 seasons of the show. Godspeed, Alex Trebek.

December 2nd

Joe Pastry

Joe Pastry is "a good baking reference website I found …. AND NO ADS OR ANNOYING 7 PAGE STORIES BEFORE THE RECIPES" -- [Reader S].

December 3rd

Pasta Grannies

"Do you love pasta? Well, do what our Grannies say, and subscribe to Pasta Grannies. Every Friday, you'll watch Italian 'nonne' in their own homes making traditional pasta dishes - as well as other delicious food like gnocchi, breads, soups that are typical of their region. Enjoy!" -- recommended by [Reader K.]

December 4th

Earth

earth is a visualization of global weather conditions forecast by supercomputers and updated every three hours. Ocean surface current estimates are updated every five days. Ocean waves are updated every three hours. Aurora updated every thirty minutes. -- [recommended by Reader K.]

December 5th

Tonematrix Redux

Tonematrix Redux: It's a pentatonic step sequencer. Which means you click tiles and make music. [suggested from Reader K.]

December 6th

Swearalong with The Allusionist

Swearing can be a stress relief and The Allusionist Swearalong is here for us all to help us swear together, while apart

December 7th

Draw Logos From Memory

Draw logos from memory! How hard can it be? We have seen these logos on the daily for years. Easy peasy. One would think.

December 8th

Templatemaker.nl

"Create and download custom sized papercraft and packaging templates for free!" Templatemaker.nl offers a variety of templates for paper craft, packaging, package design, learning materials, decoration and much more. All the models can be customized Usually, that includes the length, width and height of an object. After, "you can download the models in a variety of formats. PDF will be most likely be the easiest, so you can start printing, cutting and folding straight away".

December 9th

Scattergories List Generator

Scattergories is a fun party game. You play with a timer, and while the clock counts down, you fill out a list that matches random categories like actors, colors, things you find on a zoo - but each answer needs to start with the designated letter. You get a point for each original answer. If someone else has the same word as you, neither of you get the point. Prepare to argue about who counts as a celebrity and how creative you can get with the names of colors. You can play over your favourite video platform using the Scattergories List Generator

December 10th

Cloud Zoo

Welcome to the Cloud Zoo. "Every day, the activities of hundreds of zoo and aquarium animals are live streamed online. Throughout the day we generate short clips from each of these cameras and collect them right here in our digital zoo. Click on any video clip to learn more about the animals and to go to the full live stream." Come for the puffins, stay for the snow monkeys.

December 11th

Manatee Chat

Manatee Chat is a science project that asks you to help idenitfy manatee sounds for science that is brought to us from the citizen science Zooniverse platform. Not interested in identifying manitee chewing sounds? There are bunch of other projects that you can contribute to and add to the world's science and knowledge.

December 12th

The Musuem of the World

The Museum of the World is a visualization of a selection of the collection of The British Museum. "Jump back in time to explore objects from across diverse cultures and listen to British Museum curators share their insights. Click to connect objects across time and space, and discover hidden links between then and now."

December 13th

10 HOURS of Relaxing 2020 Holiday Dumpster Fire

"Relaxing is not a word that I associate with 2020. But I will allow this ten hour 2020 Holiday Dumpster Fire to relax me.

December 14th

Storyline

Storyline was created by data enthusiasts to help people test their assumptions about historical trends.

December 15th

Blob Opera

Create your own opera inspired song with Blob Opera . It's a machine learning experiment by David Li in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture.

December 16th

eXHALeR

eXHALeR is a free website / breathing app to help with your yoga, square breathing, or meditation exercises. Inhale. Hold. Exhale. Hold.

December 17th

Below the Surface

Below the Surface is a remarkable digital collection of artifacts collected from the Amstel river from when a new metro line was built between 2003 and 2012.

December 18th

#metkids

#metkids is not just an interactive map of NYC's Met Museum geared towards kids... it's probably one of the best interactive maps I've experienced.

December 19th

Wolfram|Alpha Surprises

Wolfram|Alpha Surprises is a list of strange and wonderful things that Wolfram|Alpha computational engines is able to tell you more about, such as yoga poses, word and language tools, and image processing tools

December 20th

Geography Now!

Host Paul Barbato is on a mission to profile every single country in the world. Alphabetically. He started with Afghanistan and today, five years later, he is up to Romania. Paul's channel, Geography Now! is warm, silly, deeply human, and a wonderful reminder of how big our world really is. While it's fun to see what Paul says about a country you know a lot about, its those introductions to places outside of what we know that are so important.

December 21st

4 PRODUCERS FLIP THE SAME SAMPLE

Andrew Huang makes music and videos about making music. I love his channel and I really love his series 4 Producers Flip the Same Sample. While the parts in the video that have the producers explaining their processes is kinda interesting, its the sheer display of creativity and range of musical responses to the same source that really impresses. I have listened to the most recent video in the series on repeat. Headphones recommended.

December 22nd

Best reaction gif from 2019

I have reviewed This Buzzfeed list of best memes from 2019 and I have decreed the 'Me trying Kombucha for the first time' reaction gif is the one most worthy of your time.

December 23rd

Library Extension

Some love the Summer reading season, but I love using Winter as my excuse to bundle in blankets up and read on the sofa. I buy many books from my local independent bookstore but I also use Library Extension to find out whether items on Amazon or my Goodreads "to read list" are already available to be at my public library.

December 24th

The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Dance

I’m sure everyone has imitated at least one of the dances from A Charlie Brown Christmas once in their lives, but I doubt few have mastered them all. Here is your chance.

Also... Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year, too!