Weekly Filet #142: Looking War in the Eye. And more.
To date, more than 2.3 million Syrians have fled their home country. The Washington Post has gone to great lengths to show the faces and tell the stories behind these numbers. «Refuge» is a powerful interactive, letting eighteen Syrian refugees speak for themselves, about the horrors they've experienced, their present situation and their hopes for the future.
→ The Refuge (Washington Post)
A wonderful image series: Photographer Todd Heisler walked 30 miles all around Manhattan to capture the diversity of this iconic place.
→ Once Around an Island (New York Times)
A good synopsis of the state of the «internet of things». It features a great analogy that adds instant clarity to the matter: «The internet of things will create a world of invisible buttons»
→ How the «internet of things» will replace the web (Quartz)
List of tautological place names. List of unexplained sounds. List of sexually active popes. This advent calendar gives you a Wikipedia list a day. Brilliant stuff.
→ Wikipedia Advent Calendar (Noah Veltman)
The most beautiful thing on the web right now: All the world's winds, visualised in realtime. It looks like a Van Gogh in the making.
→ Earth Wind Map
A new collection: The Future is Now This week, I've published the second collection of Weekly Filet reads from the archive. Titled «The Future is Now», it explores all the things we considered of the future not long ago, but that are here already, and here to stay. In total 3-4 hours of reading.