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01/27/10 - Tricky Dice - Ways to number sets of dice such that if your opponent picks first, you can always have better odds of winning on a toss. (maa.org/mathland/mathtrek_10_6.html)
01/24/10 - Victoria Arts Scan - Victoria Arts Scan is an arts and cultural mapping project designed to inventory information on Victoria's arts and cultural assets - the scope of arts and cultural organizations and resources that currently exist in Victoria. (victoriaartsscan.ca)
01/19/10 - 2010: Living in the Future - Back when I was a boy, I bought a children's book at my town's library book sale called "2010: Living in the Future" by Geoffrey Hoyle. Written in 1972, it had been withdrawn from the library's collection by the mid-80s, when I picked it up. I've somehow managed to hang onto it for 25 years and now, suddenly, here we are: 2010. I'm reproducing this long out-of-print book here to see how we're doing. Are we really living in the future? (2010book.tumblr.com/post/310745454/cover)
01/16/10 - cryingwife.com - Videos of a man's wife who cries at the end of almost any movie. Like clockwork, the tears began to flow along with her hard-to-understand commentary. (cryingwife.com)
01/12/10 - growingupheroes.com - Growing Up Heroes brings back vivid memories of our own attempts to be heroes when we were uncomplicated, over-imaginative, nerdy kids. (growingupheroes.com)
12/26/09 - sffmeta.com - More than 4000 Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror books from trusted critics around the world. (sffmeta.com)
12/25/09 - hoaxes - Why do fakes get made? Why do people fall for hoaxes? Greed, pride, revenge, nationalism, pranks, and gullibility mix in an archaeological setting . (archaeology.org/online/features/hoaxes)
12/24/09 - browser size - Google Browser Size is a visualization of browser window sizes broken down by percentiles of users (as compiled by Google). (browsersize.googlelabs.com)
12/12/09 - What Was Popular Mechanics Thinking? - It's fun to peruse old copies of Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Modern Mechanix, and similar magazines and laugh at the naivety of 1950s science. Everything was all, "Rockets! Space! Lasers! Together at last, on your toaster!" Really, it was a recipe for an inevitable letdown when jet-packs failed to show up by 1970. But sometimes Popular Mechanics just had bad ideas. Like, crazy, poorly-thought-out contraptions and scenarios that, even in the '50s, made no damn sense whatsoever... (woot.com/Blog/ViewEntry.aspx?Id=10506)
12/09/09 - Norman Rockwell's Photo Realism - Norman Rockwell's rosy illustrations of small town American life looked so photographic because his method was to copy photographs that he conceived and meticulously directed, working with various photographers and using friends and neighbors as his models. (pdnphotooftheday.com/2009/12/2778)
12/08/09 - QWOP - Control a sprinter using four keys. I've never made it close to 100m. (foddy.net/Athletics.html)
12/06/09 - let them sing it for you - Enter a phrase and the site will build it using samples from song vocals. If a word is missing, submit it to help build their dictionary. (www.sr.se/p1/src/sing)
11/28/09 - all streets - All of the streets in the lower 48 United States: an image of 26 million individual road segments. No other features (such as outlines or geographic features) have been added to this image, however they emerge as roads avoid mountains, and sparse areas convey low population. (benfry.com/allstreets)
11/18/09 - google image swirl - The latest offering from Google Labs organizes image search results based on their visual and semantic similarities and presents them in an intuitive exploratory interface. (image-swirl.googlelabs.com)
11/17/09 - significant objects - The idea: A talented, creative writer invents a story about an object. Invested with new significance by this fiction, the object should — according to our hypothesis — acquire not merely subjective but objective value. How to test our theory? Via eBay! (significantobjects.com)
11/13/09 - gone and forgotten - Gone & Forgotten is a blog dedicated to the bottom of the comic book barrel; the Secret Wars IIs, the Kitty Pryde and Wolverines, the Green Teams and John Targitts and the one time Krypto swore like a drunken sailor on shore leave. (gone-and-forgotten.blogspot.com)
11/09/09 - eatingasia.typepad.com - EatingAsia is about (mostly) Asian food and the people who produce and cook it; Asian culinary cultures and food traditions; and food as a means of connecting with strangers. (eatingasia.typepad.com)
11/05/09 - the internet oracle - Like all famous oracles, the Internet Oracle is omniscient, and will provide some answer to your question. In return, the Oracle may require that you perform a small service... (cgi.cs.indiana.edu/~oracle/index.cgi)
11/04/09 - toronto.ca | open - The City of Toronto's official data set catalogue - beta version. Access City data, get information about City data and the City's OpenTO initiative and give us feedback. (www.toronto.ca/open)
10/16/09 - How We Drive - The companion blog to Tom Vanderbilt's New York Times bestselling book, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us). (www.howwedrive.com)
10/14/09 - split screen - A weblog dedicated to the art of the split screen and multi-layered visuals, as seen in movies, music videos, commercials and other media based on moving images. (www.splitscreen.us)
10/02/09 - So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica? - I've taken 20 logos that were originally designed in Helvetica, and I've redone them in Arial. Some people would call that blasphemy. I call it a challenge: can you tell which is the original and which is the remake? (ironicsans.com/helvarialquiz)
09/27/09 - murmur toronto - Murmur is a documentary oral history project that records stories and memories told about specific geographic locations. When you see the Murmur signs around Toronto, call the number displayed to hear a story about the local history. (murmurtoronto.ca)
09/24/09 - trendsmap.com - Trendsmap.com is a real-time mapping of Twitter trends across the world. See what the global, collective mass of humanity are discussing right now. (trendsmap.com)
09/21/09 - artoftheprank.com - Here you will find insights, information, news and discussions about pranks, hoaxes, culture jamming & reality hacking around the world - past, present and future - mainstream and counter culture. (artoftheprank.com)
09/06/09 - church sign maker - Ever seen those signs in front of churches with the moveable letters? Ever wanted to rearrange the letters to make your own church sign? Well, now you can. (says-it.com/churchsigns)
08/28/09 - mysterious letters - In April 2009, we sent a personal, handwritten letter to each of the 467 households in the small Irish village of Cushendall. We hoped these unsolicited letters would prompt neighbourly discussion, spreading across the town, promoting community curiosity. (mysteriousletters.blogspot.com)
08/15/09 - scouting new york - I work as a film location scout in New York City. My day is basically spent combing the streets for interesting and unique locations for feature films. In my travels, I often stumble across some pretty incredible sights, most of which are ignored every day by thousands of New Yorkers in too much of a rush to pay attention. (scoutingny.com)
08/10/09 - Ignite - If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Around the world geeks have been putting together Ignite nights to show their answers. (ignite.oreilly.com)
08/07/09 - automatic tweet generator - Twitter is a wonderful thing, perhaps mankind's greatest achievement of all time. But it has one major flaw-- using it requires you to waste time thinking about and typing what you want to Tweet. Well, no longer! With this handy generator you can automatically create a piece of fascinating information and send it straight to your status for the world to pay attention to. (eviltrailmix.com/tweet)
