Who needs machine readable dates? As far as I can see there are two target audiences for this operation. The first is obviously social applications that have to work with dates, and where it can be useful to compare dates of two different events. An app must be able to see if two events fall on the same day and warn you if they do. However, as a target audience social applications are immediately followed by historians (or historical, chronological applications). After all, historians are (dare I say it?) historically the most prolific users of dates, until they were upstaged by social applications. [more inside]
posted by smcg
on Feb 6, 2013 -
39 comments
As 2009 approaches, you’re taking down your old calendars and wondering what to do with them. You still enjoy those Monet/Jeff Foxworthy/rose garden/Playmate images so much you hate to throw them in the recycling bin. Don’t worry, there are ways to reinvent that calendar so you can enjoy those images for years to come. For starters, you could
make envelopes and notecards out the calendar.
Though perhaps you won’t want to use your new Playmate stationery to write to Grandma. [more inside]
posted by orange swan
on Dec 28, 2008 -
7 comments
Advent calendars 2005. Back when the
internets were very young, people began combining a wonderful old holiday tradition, the
Advent calendar, with the latest in communications, the internet, and thus it was that interactive Advent calendars were born. This one (requires Flash) was the first one I ever saw and here are some other of my favorites:
Leslie Harpold's and
Tibi and Beens. Want more? Check
Google.
posted by Lynsey
on Dec 1, 2005 -
13 comments
Fluffy Kittens' Lunar Wheel Calendar gives a different turn to scheduling for 2005. Download high-resolution images -- free under Creative Commons license -- and construct your own, or opt for a ready-made color poster.
Disclaimer: No actual fluffy kittens involved in this post.
posted by LinusMines
on Dec 9, 2004 -
17 comments
All The Nudes That Are Fit To Print: It's no exaggeration to say
La Repubblica is Italy's finest newspaper. It's liberal, modern, intelligent and independent. Along with Spain's
El Pais; France's
Libération and
Le Monde; the UK's
Guardian; Germany's
Die Zeit and Portugal's
Público, it's one of the mainstays of the European Left and Centre-Left. And yet its website offers
calendars in the, er,
Pirelli tradition of time-keeping. Imagine the
New York Times being similarly... liberal. Can soft prOn and serious reporting live together? Is it an Italian thing? The only other example I can think of is Spain's
Interviú, a magazine which in its heyday mixed superb (again, left-leaning) investigative journalism with politically incorrect - and photographically retouched - tits and ass. (
NSFW, obviously, unless you're somewhere in Southern Europe or Louisiana.)
posted by MiguelCardoso
on Oct 29, 2003 -
49 comments
Ever wonder about the
Islamic Calendar? finishing up the month of Rajab about Oct 16
"The number of months with Allah has been twelve months by Allah's ordinance since the day He created the heavens and the earth. Of these four are known as sacred" (Holy Quran, ch., v 36)Muharram, Rajab, Dhul Qadah and Dhul Hijja are considered to be sacred months. Fighting during these sacred months is considered to be a sin. I am so ignorant of other cultures.
posted by redhead
on Oct 12, 2001 -
7 comments
