#Euro2012

Hand-stitched typography, a skate park gallery, Nina Simone and more in our weekly look at the Web

Showing that football fans support social media nearly as much as their team, Twitter data visualization scientist Nicolas Belmonte tracked tweets by following the #Euro2012 hashtag during the 2012 European Cup. The graphical spikes indicate high and low points in selective matches, giving insight to decisive moments when physical words were simply not enough to voice the levels of excitement.

My American Dream Sounds Like Nina Simone

Hand-stitched typography, a skate park gallery, Nina Simone and more in our weekly look at the Web

UPenn professor Salamishah Tillet contributed a brilliantly written piece to NPR’s music blog on the indelible Nina Simone. Tillet guides readers through history, pointing out the copious ways in which Simone continues to not only influence music, but American culture at large.

Tank Top Types

Band of Outsiders' 60-hour show, radioactive pottery, the iPad's fifth wall and more in our weekly look at the web

CH contributor John Ortved turns his love of tank tops into a cheeky sartorial piece for The New York Times, where he calls out five types of guys in NYC by way of their preferred sleeveless summer threads. So, which are you—the Saturdays surfer sipping cold brew on Crosby, the A.P.C.-wearing artisan lurking at Le Baron or maybe just a Warrior of Radness caught in …