Welcome to the August 2009 Site of the Day archives. To see this today's site,
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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)
