Interesting apps

Ever wanted to paint realistic-looking brushstrokes in your browser? You’re welcome.

Stuff in Space is a realtime 3D map of objects in Earth orbit, visualized using WebGL.

The website updates daily with orbit data from Space-Track.org and uses the excellent satellite.js Javascript library to calculate satellite positions.

This is a really awesome use of <canvas>, Web Audio, and other web standards to create a globe that you can rotate to hear a mixture of radio stations from the coordinates you’re looking at.