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Jeez, I thought I had a lot of side projects, but I think you have me beat. You've inspired me to make my own list:

Scrollorama http://johnpolacek.github.com/scrollorama/

What The Heck Is Responsive Web Design http://johnpolacek.github.com/scrolldeck.js/decks/responsive...

Scrolldeck http://johnpolacek.github.com/scrolldeck.js

Scrollorama2:SuperScrollorama http://johnpolacek.github.com/superscrollorama/

Are You A Brogrammer http://areyouabrogrammer.com

BigVideo.js http://dfcb.github.com/BigVideo.js/

Channel of Awesome http://dfcb.github.com/channel-of-awesome/

Responsivator! http://dfcb.github.com/Responsivator/

stacktable.js http://johnpolacek.github.com/stacktable.js/

controldeck.js (2013) http://dfcb.github.com/controldeck.js/

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Neat projects! A lot of useful things for developers in there. My projects for this year are less developer oriented, just random things I thought were interesting at the time:

Six Degrees of Bowie - http://www.sixdegreesofbowie.com/ - simple musical influencers graph

web-workers-fallback - https://github.com/typpo/web-workers-fallback - webworker compatibility layer

Github Participation Graph - https://github.com/typpo/github-participation-graph - chrome extension that improves some github aesthetics

World of Loot - http://worldofloot.com/ - pinterest-style mmo wishlists

Asterank 3D - http://asterank.com/3d - interactive visualization of thousands of objects in our inner solar system

Facebook Unsee - http://ianww.com/fb-unsee/ - chrome extensions that stops facebook from telling people when you've viewed a message

Asterank - http://asterank.com - a database of asteroids that catalogs their scientific attributes and potential economic value

GiftHorse - http://gifthorse.us - gift suggestion engine that barely generates revenue via amazon affiliate links

TextBelt - http://textbelt.com - free outgoing SMS API

KeepDream - http://keepdream.me - dream logging service

Your Asterank and Asterank 3d is pretty cool. How did you get the value of the asteroids ?

Thanks. I estimated the value based on spectral class, which gives us an idea of composition based on how they reflect light. I combined this with current prices for materials mostly from the London Metal Exchange. Other costs such as getting to the asteroid and mining overhead are factored in.

Have you shown this to Planetary Resources? Just for the fun and some PR of it (at least)?

This sounds awesome, nicely done.

I've been planning to do a hack like this to demonstrate the realities of interstellar travel, modelled after a game I played as a child.

Asterank is frankly inspiring, thanks so much for sharing - well done!

Where did you get the data for Asterank? The visualization part looks pretty neat.

All my sources are listed on http://asterank.com/about. Most of the raw data comes from the Minor Planet Center and JPL. The intuition on how to calculate value and cost comes from a number of papers on the subjects of asteroid composition and other asteroid characteristics. The actual value calculations are just formulas that I created and tweaked based on several reference objects.

I played with some of these, is scroll deck supposed to work in the iPad? I couldn't get it to do anything. I don't have a desktop to try for comparison. Amazing work with all this

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