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paste.page
Six core emotions at the centre, English sub-emotions around them, and an outer ring drawing on forty-odd other languages—saudade, mono no aware, and a couple of hundred more—each positioned near the feeling it most closely neighbours. The premise that naming a feeling more precisely expands what you’re capable of feeling is a nice one, even if unfalsifiable.
sixdegreesofhiphop.com
An interactive force-directed graph of every major connection in hip-hop (collaborations, beefs, label signings, mentorships) covering 300-odd artists, producers and labels from 1984 to now. Click an artist to see their web. Toggle Beef Mode to watch the map light up with grievance. Or use the Six Degrees tool to find the shortest path between any two figures (Lil Peep to Jay-Z is the example they suggest, which tells you something about the sensibility).
wikicity.app
Reid Lewis has built a 3D city out of the 100,000 most-viewed Wikipedia articles from the past year: every building an article, every floor a pageview count. It's inspired by Samuel Rizzo's GitCity, which does the same trick for repositories. You can click buildings to open the article, or—naturally—fly around in a little plane and blow them up.
moultano.wordpress.com
“In the manifold of breakfast, are there empty subspaces? Might there be breakfasts that no one has ever had? With a theoretical model of breakfast, can we derive the existence of ‘dark breakfasts,’ breakfasts that we know must exist, but have never observed?”
samizdat.co
A growing set of interactive visualisations from Christian Swineheart that map the internal structure of Infinite Jest—its scrambled chronology, endnote architecture, character networks, etc.