site of the day archive for october 2009

Welcome to the October 2009 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.

october 2009

10/31/09 - the maskatorium - Hundreds of masks from around the world. (www.flickr.com/photos/24832951@N00/collections/72157605195040038)
10/30/09 - cell size and scale - Use the slider at the bottom to zoom in. (learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale)
10/29/09 - whatcoloristheempirestatebuilding.com - What Color Is The Empire State Building? (whatcoloristheempirestatebuilding.com)
10/28/09 - iconicphotos.wordpress.com - Iconic photographs and their stories. (iconicphotos.wordpress.com)
10/27/09 - yehuda moon - A cycling themed webcomic featuring Yehuda Moon and the Kickstand Cyclery. (www.yehudamoon.com)
10/26/09 - Living on $500,000 a Year - What F. Scott Fitzgerald's tax returns reveal about his life and times. (www.theamericanscholar.org/living-on-500000-a-year)
10/25/09 - news caption fails - 21 news caption mistakes. (www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/21-news-caption-fails)
10/24/09 - chart porn - Data visualizations you just gotta love. (chartporn.org)
10/23/09 - When you marry - Excerpts from a 1962 textbook on dating and marriage. (contexts.org/socimages/2009/10/21/when-you-marry-1962-textbook)
10/22/09 - Manhattan - 11,000 Manhattan street corners. (richardhowe.net/zMSC/index-msc.html)
10/21/09 - 40 Years of Monty Python - A dozen of the best skits from 40 years of Python. (www.becks.com/2009/10/06/40-years-of-monty-python-greatest-hits-funniest-sketches/?s=1)
10/20/09 - you're the man now dog - The 10 Best YTMND Single-Serving Sites Of All Time - A Guide. (www.urlesque.com/2009/10/15/best-ytmnd-single-serving-sites)
10/19/09 - Canada's Rivers at Risk - An interactive guide to Canada's rivers at risk from the World Wildlife Fund. (wwf.ca/conservation/freshwater/riversatrisk.cfm)
10/18/09 - Cycle Chic from Copenhagen - Streetstyle and bike advocacy in high heels. (copenhagencyclechic.com)
10/17/09 - the interrobang - Good asks, is the combination question mark and exclamation point a sign of the times? (www.good.is/post/the-culture-of-the-interrobang)
10/16/09 - How We Drive - The companion blog to Tom Vanderbilt's New York Times bestselling book, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us). (www.howwedrive.com)
10/15/09 - Animation: The History of the Chipmunks - The complete history of Alvin, Simon, and Theodore. (animationarchive.org/2009/10/animation-history-of-chipmunks.html)
10/14/09 - split screen - A weblog dedicated to the art of the split screen and multi-layered visuals, as seen in movies, music videos, commercials and other media based on moving images. (www.splitscreen.us)
10/13/09 - thefuntheory.com - Volkswagen asks what behavioural change we can bring by making things fun. (thefuntheory.com)
10/12/09 - foodtimeline.org - A timeline of food dating back thousands of links, told through sites from around the web. (foodtimeline.org)
10/11/09 - The Moth - Live storytelling performances. Also check out their podcast. (www.themoth.org)
10/10/09 - Cyclogames - A collection of vintage cycling board games. (cyclingboardgames.net/cyclogames.htm)
10/09/09 - Food Goldberg - the top ten food-based Rube Goldberg machines. (www.eatmedaily.com/2009/09/the-top-ten-food-based-rube-goldberg-machines-videos)
10/08/09 - 'Twilight Zone': Guess Who Guested - A gallery of famous guest stars on the Twilight Zone. (www.life.com/image/first/in-gallery/34312/twilight-zone-guess-who-guested)
10/07/09 - eel slap - Swipe your mouse across the screen. (softish.nu/eelslap)
10/06/09 - fear of cycling - An essay in five parts by sociologist Dave Horton on what keeps people from cycling more, and what we can do about it. (www.copenhagenize.com/2009/09/fear-of-cycling-01-essay-in-five-parts.html)
10/05/09 - pictures for sad children - A web comic by John Campbell that probably isn't appropriate for sad children. (picturesforsadchildren.com)
10/04/09 - 1000 melting men in Berlin - One thousand ice sculptures melt in the sun to highlight global warming. (www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthpicturegalleries/6126909/One-thousand-ice-sculptures-melt-in-the-sun-to-highlight-global-warming.html)
10/03/09 - this peanut looks like a duck - A site about things that look like ducks. (thispeanutlookslikeaduck.com)
10/02/09 - So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica? - I've taken 20 logos that were originally designed in Helvetica, and I've redone them in Arial. Some people would call that blasphemy. I call it a challenge: can you tell which is the original and which is the remake? (ironicsans.com/helvarialquiz)
10/01/09 - breaking glass with sound - A neat demostration of breaking a wine glass with sound. (techtv.mit.edu/genres/32-science/videos/2964-breaking-glass-with-sound)

Fri Mar 12 09:36:41 2010