site of the day archive for september 2007

Welcome to the September 2007 Site of the Day archives. To see this today's site, and this month's archive, click here. Also, if you know of any sites I should feature, email me at sotd@someonwhocares.org or post a note on the message board.

september 2007

09/30/07 - 20th century cities - Photographs of US cities from the mid 20th century. (www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=142692)
09/29/07 - football - How Adidas makes a football. (tides.ws/2007/09/27/how-adidas-makes-football)
09/28/07 - free stock images - 100 (legal) sources for free stock images. (www.virtualhosting.com/blog/2007/100-legal-sources-for-free-stock-images)
09/27/07 - stupidest conspiracy theories - The world's weirdest/stupidest conspiracy theories. (swallowingthecamel.blogspot.com/2007/08/worlds-weirdeststupidest-conspiracy.html)
09/26/07 - sketchcomedyclips.com - Videos of the best sketches comedy has to offer. (sketchcomedyclips.com)
09/25/07 - nicolas chorier - Incredible kite aerial photography by Nicolas Chorier. (www.nicopix.com)
09/24/07 - apes that write, start fires and play pac-man - A talk by Susan Savage-Rumbaugh about bonobo apes. (www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/76)
09/23/07 - the nerd corner - A detailed history of the word "nerd". (home.comcast.net/~brons/NerdCorner/nerd.html)
09/22/07 - youconvertit.com - Upload a file in virtually any format, and get it back in any other. (youconvertit.com)
09/21/07 - 404 error pages - A Smashing look at 404 error pages. (smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/17/404-error-pages-reloaded)
09/20/07 - terrorist organization logos - Logos of the terrorist world. (ironicsans.com/2007/07/terrorist_organization_logos.html)
09/19/07 - the full monty - The 12 medical specialty stereotypes. (theunderweardrawer.blogspot.com/2007/09/full-monty-httpwww.html)
09/18/07 - insribed in the living tile - An essay about type in the Toronto subway. (joeclark.org/appearances/atypi/2007/TTC/inscribed)
09/17/07 - i hate young people - Videos of adults explaining why they hate young people (and the occasional young person defense). (ihateyoungpeople.com/videos.html)
09/16/07 - jeopardy mishaps - 10 funny Jeopardy clips. (linkognito.com/b.php?b=396)
09/15/07 - images compression: seeing what's not there - An article detailing how the JPEG algorithm works. (ams.org/featurecolumn/archive/image-compression.html)
09/14/07 - chocolate zen - A story of the 99%-cocoa Lindt chocolate bar. (keacher.com/?p=388)
09/13/07 - street fighter: the later years - The stars of Street Fighter, ten years later. (www.collegehumor.com/tag:street-fighter-the-later-years)
09/12/07 - basic instructions - Your all-inclusive guide to a life well-lived (in comic strip form). (basicinstructions.net)
09/11/07 - web urbanist - The Web Urbanist blog collective writers are interested in all things urban - from urban design to subversive art and strange architecture. (weburbanist.com)
09/10/07 - dangerous knowledge - In this one-off documentary, David Malone looks at four brilliant mathematicians - Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing - whose genius has profoundly affected us, but which tragically drove them insane and eventually led to them all committing suicide. (video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3503877302082311448)
09/09/07 - symbols.com - An online encyclopedia of western symbols and ideograms include a cleverly designed Graphic Index, to search for symbols by visual characteristics. (symbols.com)
09/08/07 - offline wiki - A tutorial on how to build a fast offline mirror of Wikipedia. (softlab.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/buildWikipediaOffline.html)
09/07/07 - advanced leapfrog techniques - A lesson in advanced solo leapfrogging. (www.collegehumor.com/video:1769859)
09/06/07 - why is the violin so hard to play? - A mathematical analysis of the difficulty in playing a violin. (plus.maths.org/issue31/features/woodhouse)
09/05/07 - a century of helicopters - A photo essay on a hundred yeas of helicopters. (news.com.com/2300-11397_3-6205597-1.html)
09/04/07 - texify - An online LaTeX equation writer. (texify.com)
09/03/07 - wikirage - This site lists the pages in Wikipedia which are receiving the most edits per unique editor over various periods of time. (www.wikirage.com)
09/02/07 - the 83f project - The 1983 Fleer Autograph Project is an attempt to get the autographs of all living players appearing in the 1983 Fleer set of baseball cards. (83f.blogspot.com)
09/01/07 - drawball history - Click play to see one year of graffiti wall history played back at 40 hours per second. (drawball.com/playback)

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