Today’s catch is five projects that only exist because somebody sat down with the entire pile. Every one of India’s twelve hundred daily meteograms, read and redrawn as an 8-bit sky; a whole era of artificial intelligence gathered back into one playable shelf; the Gazetteer of British Place Names, dealt out one town an hour; painted footwear from Mercury’s sandals to van Gogh’s ruined pair; and every speech, letter and meeting note Thomas J. Watson left behind, searched to prove he never said the famous thing.
Statistical analysis of 877 Guardian Blind Date columns
→ blinddates.rory.codes
How Eurovision lyrics evolved over 60 years of contests, scrolly-told
→ puntofisso.net
Artificial intelligence from before it got awkward
→ archive.org
One British or Irish town, on the hour, in its historic county
→ bsky.app
From Mercury's winged sandals to van Gogh's battered pair
→ eclecticlight.co
The most-quoted bad prediction in computing has no source
→ quoteinvestigator.com