Welcome to the December 2009 Site of the Day archives. To see this today's site,
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12/26/09 - sffmeta.com - More than 4000 Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror books from trusted critics around the world. (sffmeta.com)
12/25/09 - hoaxes - Why do fakes get made? Why do people fall for hoaxes? Greed, pride, revenge, nationalism, pranks, and gullibility mix in an archaeological setting . (archaeology.org/online/features/hoaxes)
12/24/09 - browser size - Google Browser Size is a visualization of browser window sizes broken down by percentiles of users (as compiled by Google). (browsersize.googlelabs.com)
12/12/09 - What Was Popular Mechanics Thinking? - It's fun to peruse old copies of Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Modern Mechanix, and similar magazines and laugh at the naivety of 1950s science. Everything was all, "Rockets! Space! Lasers! Together at last, on your toaster!" Really, it was a recipe for an inevitable letdown when jet-packs failed to show up by 1970. But sometimes Popular Mechanics just had bad ideas. Like, crazy, poorly-thought-out contraptions and scenarios that, even in the '50s, made no damn sense whatsoever... (woot.com/Blog/ViewEntry.aspx?Id=10506)
12/09/09 - Norman Rockwell's Photo Realism - Norman Rockwell's rosy illustrations of small town American life looked so photographic because his method was to copy photographs that he conceived and meticulously directed, working with various photographers and using friends and neighbors as his models. (pdnphotooftheday.com/2009/12/2778)
12/08/09 - QWOP - Control a sprinter using four keys. I've never made it close to 100m. (foddy.net/Athletics.html)
12/06/09 - let them sing it for you - Enter a phrase and the site will build it using samples from song vocals. If a word is missing, submit it to help build their dictionary. (www.sr.se/p1/src/sing)
