What’s cool? I know where the town is

And I tag ’em in pinboard and run good old trusty RSS through Feed2JS (alas no more as of 2022, now using WordPress RSS block). These also get posted (via IFTTT) #cogdogcooltech to Mastodon (the tag is dead in birdspace). Enjoy the Coolness

  • In the "you would not expect this to be mapped but it is" — the most up-to-date definitive source for every pool table in New York City. "I'll admit, it's kind of an impossible task, with places changing so often and NYC being massive. But, I've wanted something like this […]
  • During this brief moment of silence, project Dawn Chorus was brought to life by the Naturkundemuseum Bayern with BIOTOPIA LAB and the Foundation Arts and Nature (Nantesbuch), with support from the Max Planck Society. During an extremely short timeframe, a number of people came together to launch the project, inspired […]
  • The first Indigenous robot… designed entirely by Indigenous leaders. A personal, wearable, and interactive Indigenous language revitalization robot that responds to being spoken to in the voices of Indigenous children in the endangered Indigenous language Anishinaabemowin which utilizes ethical, sustainable, and internally developed AI. The students build the robots themselves. The […]
  • Poly Haven is a curated public asset library for visual effects artists and game designers, providing useful high quality 3D assets in an easily obtainable manner. There are no paywalls, accounts or email forms required, just download an asset and use it without worry. All assets here are CC0, which […]
  • On a mission to make robotics education more accessible, affordable, and inspiring, Martin Klomp led the development of MIRTE—a low-cost, fully open-source educational robot. Through this project, he aims to help students — from primary school to university — engage with technology in meaningful, hands-on ways. Unlike many educational robots […]
  • Edit like a pro, without the complexity. Cut, sequence, and transition your clips on a beautifully simple timeline. Add text to tell a powerful story. For the first time ever, video editors can collaborate without friction. No more wasting time on rendering or sending large files. Send a link to […]
  • Turn parking spaces into trees — and help Berlin grow a million by 2040! You’ve got 60 seconds
  • Sort your students into the most optimal groups. Use our survey maker to collect information from your students, upload to gruepr, and our algorithm will find you the best set of teams. Open source yay
  • IFTTT is a popular automation tool, but is it the best? While IFTTT lets you connect your apps and automate simple tasks, it has limitations. You might encounter frustrating restrictions like single-step automations, unreliability, and limited customization.  In this guide, we'll unveil 20 of the best IFTTT alternatives such as […]
  • QR codes have established themselves as a popular way to provide a chunk of digital information (most commonly a web address to jump to) via physical media. I myself occasionally use them in flyers, posters, or presentation slides. They are not too complicated to generate and a variety of free […]
  • BTW, something I’d like the WordCamp Canada folk to have a look at, the home page of my DaveVerse site — https://daveverse.org/ There’s a blogroll down the right side, only it’s unlike any blogroll you’ve seen before. 1. The order changes, when a site updates it goes to the top […]
  • The purpose of AnimalTrakker® is to provide software and data analysis tools that aid in the management of livestock. Our mission is to bring animal management solutions to all who work with animals, whether veterinarian, small farmer, or commercial rancher. Our goal is to make it easier for you to […]
  • Generativ Design is a project by Yasuhiro Yokota, a Tokyo-based designer, a series of creative tools to generate visual designs that are far from the slop of generative AI. Translated from Yokota's about page: "I have launched a website called Generative Design as a private project. The "e" in Generative […]
  • Create a feed with the form above and Kill the Newsletter! provides you with an email address and an Atom feed. Emails that are received at that address are turned into entries in that feed. Sign up to a newsletter with that address and use your feed reader to subscribe […]
  • This is a website where anyone can add Anything About Anyplace™ anywhere in the world. A crowd-sourced website that brings you fascinating and perhaps unique information about specific locations everywhere.   Historical markers, often in bronze or stone, commemorate something of importance or interest about a place. Yet there are millions of […]
  • A small program to generate "programmatic" lists in Mastodon, as a way to experiment with different kinds of home feeds. Mastodon's strict chronological timeline favors frequent posters over less frequent ones. In my experience this causes a problem where your feed is dominated by a few hardcore, big-follower-number posters, while […]
  • The Virtual Microscope (VM) for Earth Sciences is primarily an Open Educational Resource (OER). The VM project aims to make a step change in the teaching of Earth Sciences by broadening access to rock collections that are currently held in museums, universities and other institutions around the world. The Virtual […]
  • Flickr Commons is a program to bring the visual collections of cultural heritage organizations to new audiences. Getting these resources in front of people where they are online as opposed to being siloed in their own website or not online at all. It was a pretty ground breaking project, the […]
  • FreshRSS is a self-hosted RSS and Atom feed aggregator. It is lightweight, easy to work with, powerful, and customizable. Follow websites, podcasts and video channels in a single place. Read your articles directly in FreshRSS. Search and save queries for quick access. Generate feeds by scraping external websites. Generate new […]
  • Enjoy dog chosen music for slide shows of all geocities pages that represented dogs, almost as fun (for dog fans) as openpuppies.com h/t https://olia.geocities.institute/@GIFmodel/115310965677666934

Featured Image: My cool photo (cropped for better fit as blog top image)

2012/366/15 It's Cool Here
2012/366/15 It’s Cool Here flickr photo by cogdogblog shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license