january 2005

01/31/05 - pottedmeatmuseum.com - Of all the things to choose as the subject for an online museum, they chose canned meat? (pottedmeatmuseum.com)

01/30/05 - starbucks drinks simplified (kinda) - A cheat sheet to help you order drinks at Starbucks. (www.quicksilverweb.net/sbucks/sbcharts.htm)

01/29/05 - 50 things to eat before you die - A comprehensive list of the top fifty foods to eat before you die. The list covers everything from fresh fish to , and Moreton Bay bugs and venison in between. (www.bbc.co.uk/food/tv_and_radio/50eats_index.shtml)

01/28/05 - where the hell is matt? - Matt is a 26-year-old itinerant deadbeat from Connecticut. He quit his job in Brisbane, Australia to go walk the Earth, like Caine from Kung Fu. His website provides all the details of his journey, including an excellent video of his unique dancing style in many exotic locales. (wherethehellismatt.com)

01/27/05 - the razzies - With all the fuss over the recent announcement of Oscar nominations (which sadly missed Paul Giamatti's performance in Sideways), we mustn't forget some of the worst in film, as recognized by the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation. (www.razzies.com/asp/directory/25thNoms.htm)

01/26/05 - the hand collector - A gallery of interesting photographs of hands. (www.robottle.com/hands)

01/25/05 - madeyouthink.org - An interesting take on recent developments in american politics. (madeyouthink.org)

01/24/05 - dante's inferno - An interactive map of Dante's Inferno. (www.allectomedia.com/dante/dante_map.cfm)

01/23/05 - losers dot org - A link database of some of the biggest losers on the internet. (www.losers.org)

01/22/05 - inauguration 2005 - A slideshow of excellent photographs of protests at the 2005 US Presidential Inauguration Day. (centricle.com/photos/2005/01/21)

01/21/05 - favicon from pics - This web application will convert any image to create a favicon.ico. (www.html-kit.com/e/favicon.cgi)

01/20/05 - choose your own adventure - The definitive guide to Choose Your Own Adventure books. Brought to you by Demian's Gamebook Page. (www.gamebooks.org/show_series...+Adventure)

01/19/05 - elite designers against ikea - A campaign to stamp out the scourge that is Ikea. (www.elitedesigners.org)

01/18/05 - bobsagetisgod.com - Someone has gone to great lengths to demonstrate that Bob Saget will save your soul. (bobsagetisgod.com)

01/17/05 - 20 amazing facts about voting in the us - A frightening list of facts about the US voting system. (nightweed.com/usavotefacts.html)

01/16/05 - yu-mex - A site dedicated to the strange influx of Mexican music into Yugoslavia in the fifties. (friends.s5.net/mazzini/ovitki/default.html)

01/15/05 - hiccup 101 - Jessica Sances has produced a beautiful short film entitled Hiccup 101. (jessicasances.com/main.html)

01/14/05 - planes, trains, and plantains: the story of oedipus - The best (potentially fake) real essay I've ever read. This guy claims to know the author. (albinoblacksheep.com/image/essay)

01/13/05 - overclocked remix - The unofficial game music arrangement community. (www.ocremix.org)

01/12/05 - aeiou: a thirty year quest - The story of a project spanning thirty years to find words that contain each vowel exactly once, and in each of the 120 possible orderings. (wordways.com/thorpe99.htm)

01/11/05 - huh? - Huh Corp. is the latest innovator in the field of eMarketing. They use catchy names for their job titles, like Vision Guidance Leader instead of Consultant. Cool names make them sound smarter and more clever. (www.huhcorp.com)

01/10/05 - quick reference cards - An excellent set of reference cards on everything from C++, to PHP. (www.digilife.be/quickreferences/quickrefs.htm)

01/09/05 - torrent site status - This site keeps you up to date on the status of some of the best BitTorrent sites. (www.orbdesign.net/bt)

01/08/05 - tsunami - A collection of before and after photos of the tsunami damage set up so you can toggle between the two views. (homepage.mac.com/demark/tsunami)

01/07/05 - destroy evil - This site produced by Katie Bush seems to have something to do with destroying evil. At least, I think it does. (destroyevil.com)

01/06/05 - drag and drop states - This flash game tests your ability to place the states on an unmarked US map. (www.sheppardsoftware.com/states...s_500.html)

01/05/05 - jenny, are you there? - What happens if you call 867-5309 in every area code? (danstheman.com/Jenny.htm)

01/04/05 - 100 things - One hundred things that we didn't know this time last year. (news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4134329.stm)

01/03/05 - just letters - A multi-user web-based fridge magnet simulator. (web.okaygo.co.uk/apps/letters/flashcom)

01/02/05 - infernal device - A database of torture and execution devices and methods. (www.occasionalhell.com/infdevice)

01/01/05 - the 10 least successful holiday specials - From "Ayn Rand's A Selfish Christmas" to "A Canadian Christmas with David Cronenberg", this list has it all. (www.scalzi.com/whatever/003030.html)

Thu Aug 7 15:27:50 2008

site of the day archive for january 2005

january 2005