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SITE OF THE DAY ARCHIVE
"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves,
or we know where we can find information upon it."

- Samuel Johnson

AUG 2022


Previous Archives

DATE SITE OF THE DAY
8/1/22    FlightAware
   Founded in 2005, FlightAware was the first company to offer free flight tracking services for both private and commercial air traffic and quickly rose to become the most popular flight tracking service. FlightAware currently provides private aviation flight tracking in over 45 countries across North America, Europe, and Oceania, as well as global solutions for aircraft with datalink (satellite/VHF) via every major provider, including ARINC, Garmin, Honeywell GDC, Satcom Direct, SITA, and UVdatalink. FlightAware also continues to lead the industry in free, worldwide airline flight tracking and airport status for air travelers.
8/2/22    CIA: The World Factbook
   The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. Our Reference tab includes: maps of the major world regions, as well as Flags of the World, a Physical Map of the World, a Political Map of the World, a World Oceans map, and a Standard Time Zones of the World map.
8/3/22    Unique Name Generator
   Unique Name Generator is a random generator. Generate names for Persons, Businesses, generate new random Addresses, fake Credit Cards, and many other exciting options!
8/4/22    WEB Space Telescope: Science Releases
   The James Webb Space Telescope is a space telescope designed primarily to conduct infrared astronomy. As the largest optical telescope in space, its greatly improved infrared resolution and sensitivity allow it to view objects too early, distant, or faint for the Hubble Space Telescope.
8/5/22    Wordle for Chess
   Chessguessr is a game where you try to guess the next moves in a chessgame. A new position is posted every day, and all positions are currently taken from games played on Lichess.
8/6/22    Legacy.com
   Legacy.com is a global network of online obituaries that provides timely news of death and allows users to pay respect and celebrate life.
8/7/22    Craiyon
   Craiyon, formerly DALL·E mini, is an AI model that can draw images from any text prompt!
8/8/22    U.S. Inflation Calculator
   The US Inflation Calculator measures the buying power of the dollar over time. Just enter any two dates between 1913 and 2018, an amount, and click 'Calculate'.
8/9/22    Explore Where to Live Next
   Answer a few questions and find out what places match your preferences.
8/10/22    Baby Map
   A country flashes yellow on the world map every time a baby is born in that country.
8/11/22    Useful Science
   Summaries of the latest science useful in life. Everything from health, fitness, and nutrition, to productivity, happiness, sleep, and creativity.
8/12/22    Listen Music by your daily mood!
   All the songs are classified according to their mood. This pattern divides songs according to their energy and stress line, their happiness and sadness line, and their calm and energy line.
8/13/22    FEMA: Coastal Flood Risks
   This homepage houses all resources and mapping information related to coastal flood risks and mapping for all stakeholder groups in coastal communities nationwide. Historically, cities, towns and villages are settled around ports along the nation's coastlines, providing individuals and families opportunities for trade, jobs and transportation, recreation and relaxation. These areas are extremely important to our nation, with great economic, historic and cultural significance.
8/14/22    Climate for Me
   Browse and compare climates of locations all over the world. Search locations or pick them from the map. Use charts and tables to check temperature.
8/15/22    Google Scholar
   Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.
8/16/22    The best outdoor activity in every US state
   America is a vast and diverse nation that offers every type of outdoor activity you can imagine. We’re talking the usual hiking, biking, kayaking, but also the unexpected whale-watching, archery, spelunking. And then there’s the pure fun of zip-lining, tubing, even swan-boat pedaling. From this huge, huge list, we charged ourselves with picking just one outdoor activity for every state.
8/17/22    Days Between Dates
   A simple tool to quickly determine the duration between two dates in units of days, months, weeks, hours, minutes, or even seconds.
8/18/22    Robin Words
   This website features a fun and simple game. The object is to repeatedly identify word variants by changing just one letter in a four-letter word to make a new word. A timed version of the game is offered to make it more challenging for testing your quick wit.
8/19/22    Visual Thesaurus
   An online thesaurus and dictionary of over 145000 words that you explore using an interactive map. It's a tool for people who think visually.
8/20/22    Robin Words
   This website features a fun and simple game. The object is to repeatedly identify word variants by changing just one letter in a four-letter word to make a new word. A timed version of the game is offered to make it more challenging for testing your quick wit.
8/21/22    Classic Mahjong
   If you like solitaire, it might be time to step up to this single-player variant of Mahjong. This is a tile elimination matching game you can learn quickly and interactively by using the hint feature. Although the true origin of Mahjong remains contested, most agree that it emerged in the 1800s in China, with a traditional version played with a set of four players.
8/22/22    Craiyon
   Craiyon, formerly DALL·E mini, is an AI model that can draw images from any text prompt!
8/23/22    Best List
   We collect and sort through millions of data points, measure sentiment, and analyze ratings to serve you with the best and most beneficial results.
8/24/22    Air Care
   Know what you breathe - live air quality, pollen, and UV index data all around the world.
8/25/22    PubMed
   PubMed comprises more than 34 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
8/26/22    CitationGenerator
   A tool for quickly and easily generating citations from a range of sources in a selection of styles, including APA, MLA, and Chicago.
8/27/22    FlightsFrom.com
   This unique free tool publishes airline routes and schedules worldwide. Find all flight possibilities from a specific airport with non-stop flights. This allows you to bypass extra waiting times from stopovers and decrease the chance of your luggage getting delayed.
8/28/22    Cryptogram Czar
   This site features encrypted quotations (cryptogram) and their sources. Players try to guess the correct text by decoding it.
8/29/22    arXiv
   Courtesy of Cornell University, arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for over two million scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.
8/30/22    Word Square
   The object of this challenging daily puzzle game is to to place letters in a grid so that each row and column contains a logical word.
8/31/22    Serious Eats
   Welcome to the world's most trusted authority on deliciousness. Millions of passionate, discerning, curious, and very hungry people come to Serious Eats in search of definitive recipes, hard-core food science, trailblazing techniques, and innovative guides to essential food and drink anywhere and everywhere. They bring a scientific approach to cooking the best dishes, and busting food myths.


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2021
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2022
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