january 2008

01/31/08 - greatest duets - Retrocrush's list of the top 25 duets of all time. (retrocrush.buzznet.com/archive2008/duets)

01/30/08 - building a wooden bicycle - 16-year-old Marco Facciola built a completely wooden working bicycle to fulfil a class requirement. (leevalley.com/newsletters/Woodworking/2/3/article1.htm)

01/29/08 - organic cuba without fossil fuels - The fascinating story of Cuba's rapid transition from a fossil fuel based green revolution food economy to a more sustainable, more productive and cheaper system based on small scale organic and semi-organic farms. (www.i-sis.org.uk/OrganicCubawithoutFossilFuels.php)

01/28/08 - unusual ebay feedback - Unusual eBay feedback, from Capn Wacky's Lists. (capnwacky.com/lists/list67.html)

01/27/08 - understanding art for geeks - Paul the Wine Guy helps geeks to understand art. (flickr.com/photos/paulthewineguy/sets/72157603619920398)

01/26/08 - the algorithm: idiom of modern science - An essay on the role of the algorithm in modern science. (www.cs.princeton.edu/~chazelle/iPod)

01/25/08 - getmortified.com - Ripped from the pages of real life... Mortified is a comic excavation of adolescent artifacts as shared by their original authors before total strangers. (getmortified.com)

01/24/08 - robopult - How to make a vision-guided fireball-throwing catapult out of an ordinary industrial robot. It's really pretty simple, when you get right down to it. (manapotions.com/robopult.html)

01/23/08 - plane curves - A visual dictionary of famous plane curves from Xah Lee. (xahlee.org/SpecialPlaneCurves_dir/specialPlaneCurves.html)

01/22/08 - 40 words - 40 Yiddish words you should know. (www.dailywritingtips.com/the-yiddish-handbook-40-words-you-should-know)

01/21/08 - stan lee tribute artwork - Various artists' tributes to Stan Lee's creations. (1988stantheman.blogspot.com)

01/20/08 - 80 million tiny images - We present a visualization of all the nouns in the English language arranged by semantic meaning. Each of the tiles in the mosaic is an arithmetic average of images relating to one of 53,463 nouns. (people.csail.mit.edu/torralba/tinyimages)

01/19/08 - this one | that one - Can't make up your mind? Load up two pictures and let the world decide for you. (thisonethatone.com)

01/18/08 - atheism quotes - 50 quotes about atheism. (leftofzen.com/quotes-atheism/2008/01/14)

01/17/08 - lasagna cat - One man lives with the burden of making the entire world laugh everyday... Live action tributes to Garfield comics. (lasagnacat.com)

01/16/08 - chris jordan photography - Be sure to check out his exhibits Intolerable Beauty and Running the Numbers. (chrisjordan.com)

01/15/08 - underwater astonishments - An amazing video of animal camouflage. (www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/206)

01/14/08 - weird phobias - The 60 weirdest phobias people you know may have. (lifeinthefastlane.ca/60-weirdest-phobias-people-you-know-may-have/weird-science)

01/13/08 - the hardest working presidential candidate logo - An in-depth look at the graphic design behind the Obama '08 campaign logo designs. (underconsideration.com/speakup/archives/004262.html)

01/12/08 - flag grading - The flags of the world given letter grades. (pukeko.otago.ac.nz/~jp30/flags/meth.html)

01/11/08 - living three centuries - A collection of photographs of people who have lived in three centuries. (markstoryphotography.com/tns.php)

01/10/08 - prevent-it.ca - A set of disturbing PSAs from prevent-it.ca. (pongalong.com/Beerblog/index.php/worst-canadian-psas-prevent-itca-youtube-friday-five)

01/09/08 - sesame street video - A searchable archive of Sesame Street videos. (video.sesameworkshop.org)

01/08/08 - archie mcphee toys - A collection of some of the weirdest toys, candy, and yodelling pickles. (mcphee.com)

01/07/08 - crunks 2007 - The year in media errors and corrections. (www.regrettheerror.com/regret-articles/crunks-07-the-year-in-media-errors-and-corrections)

01/06/08 - cursor*10 - A new spin on collaborative puzzle games. (nekogames.jp/mt/2008/01/cursor10.html)

01/05/08 - the cult of tintin - Established in 1995, The Cult of Tintin (Tintinologist.org) is the oldest and largest English-language Tintin fan site on the Internet. (tintinologist.org)

01/04/08 - the plesiosaur directory - Your online resource for everything 'plesiosaur'. (plesiosauria.com)

01/03/08 - shuffle - Use your mouse to aim and shoot the red balls and knock the yellow balls off the board. (www.games1.org/flash-games/Shuffle)

01/02/08 - goodbuying.org - An ecommerce portal that donates its proceeds to charity. (goodbuying.org)

01/01/08 - the future: a retrospective - In 1989 Malcolm Abrams and Harriet Bernstein published a book titled Future Stuff. This site provides an audit of 250 consumer product predictions contained therein. (crummy.com/writing/TheFuture)

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