Dan Pollock's Site Of The Day archive from April 2009

04/30/09 - bc election tag clouds - Visualizing the party platforms in the BC provincial election. (www.cbc.ca/canada/bcvotes2009/tag-clouds.html)

04/29/09 - beer coffee - How to brew beer in a coffee maker, using only materials commonly found on a modestly sized oceanographic research vessel. (southernfriedscience.com/2009/04/26/how-to-brew-beer-in-a-coffee-maker-using-only-materials-commonly-found-on-a-modestly-sized-oceanographic-research-vessel)

04/28/09 - eagle cam - Live sound and video from the new nest the eagles are using this year in Sydnet, BC. (www.cbc.ca/bc/features/eaglecam)

04/27/09 - look at this lovely hamster - Send in your own hamster photos. (lookatthislovelyhamster.tumblr.com)

04/26/09 - whendidyoujointwitter.appspot.com - When did you join Twitter? (whendidyoujointwitter.appspot.com)

04/25/09 - veloculture - A Flickr pool of cycling fashion and culture. (www.flickr.com/groups/velocouture/pool)

04/24/09 - sorting-algorithms.com - Sorting algorithm animations. (sorting-algorithms.com)

04/23/09 - suddenly last supper - 101 last suppers. (culturepopped.blogspot.com/2007/04/suddenly-last-supper.html)

04/22/09 - in my bed magazine - Bed photos around the world. (inmybedmagazine.com)

04/21/09 - marblecake, also the game - How 4Chan hacked the Time 100 poll. (musicmachinery.com/2009/04/15/inside-the-precision-hack)

04/20/09 - Youtube tricks - 10 Youtube URL tricks you should know about. (www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-youtube-url-tricks-you-should-know-about)

04/19/09 - isthisyourluggage.com - Galleries of lost luggage. (www.isthisyourluggage.com)

04/18/09 - recordstoreday.com - The original idea for Record Store Day was conceived by Chris Brown, and was founded in 2007 by Eric Levin, Michael Kurtz, Carrie Colliton, Amy Dorfman, Don Van Cleave and Brian Poehner as a celebration of the unique culture surrounding over 700 independently owned record stores in the USA, and hundreds of similar stores internationally. (recordstoreday.com)

04/17/09 - math pi - A song set to the tune of American Pie. You can also download the full mp3. (www.vvc.edu/ph/TonerS/mathpi.html)

04/16/09 - LOL - The world's inventory of lols, according to Google. (gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/04/10/lol.html)

04/15/09 - David Goode - The bronze sculpture of David Goode. (www.david-goode.com/gallery.html)

04/14/09 - time travel cheat sheet - Let's say you've gone back in time. Everything you need to build the amenities of tomorrow in the past. (i.gizmodo.com/5207549/time-travel-cheat-sheet)

04/13/09 - the average man's tax dollars - A breakdown of where the average American's taxes go. (thetoiletpaper.com/blog/2009/the-average-mans-tax-dollars)

04/12/09 - extraordinary twitter updates - 10 extraordinary Twitter updates. (mashable.com/2009/04/10/extraordinary-twitter-updates)

04/11/09 - When All You Have Left Is Your Pride - Look around you. On the train platform, at the bus stop, in the car pool lane: these days someone there is probably faking it, maintaining a job routine without having a job to go to. (nytimes.com/2009/04/07/health/07mind.html?pagewanted=all)

04/10/09 - BC NDP Platform - With the BC Provincial Election about to get underway, the BC NDP has released their full platform. (www.bcndp.ca/files/u108/2009_BC_NDP_Platform.pdf)

04/09/09 - Stimulus Job Creation - Interesting visualization of the theoretical impact of the stimulus package on unemployment across U.S. states. (www.mint.com/blog/finance-core/mint-map-stimulus-job-creation)

04/08/09 - vampires - The evolution of vampires in popular culture. (cracked.com/topic/69-vampires)

04/07/09 - we're all gonna die - A 100m long photograph shot over 20 days of 178 people in Berlin. (simonhoegsberg.com/we_are_all_gonna_die/slider.html)

04/06/09 - The End of Christian America - An interesting look at the present and future of religion in Americam politics from the upcoming edition of Newsweek. (www.newsweek.com/id/192583)

04/05/09 - Tauntaun Sleeping Bag - Slumber in the belly of the beast. (www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/tauntaun.html)

04/04/09 - last days of w - A photo essay of the last days of W. (inmotion.magnumphotos.com/essay/last-days-w)

04/03/09 - japanese arnold - Arnold Schwarzenegger in a series of bizarre Japanese commercials. (shortattentionspan.net/arnold-schwarzenegger-in-funny-japanese-commercials)

04/02/09 - miniature earth - If we could turn the population of the earth into a small community of 100 people, keeping the same proportions we have today, it would be something like this... (miniature-earth.com/me_english.htm)

04/01/09 - aprilfoolsdayontheweb.com - An archive of the best April Fools' Day pranks on the internet. (aprilfoolsdayontheweb.com)

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