site of the day archive for december 2009
- 12/31/09 - furniture for small spaces - Solving small space trials together (www.furniture-for-small-spaces.com)
- 12/30/09 - Vimeo's top 25 of 2009 - The top 25 Vimeo staff picks from 2009 in no particular order. (vimeo.com/album/159627)
- 12/29/09 - Star Wars: Uncut - Star Wars: A New Hope, split up into 15 second clips and reshot by hundreds of volunteer filmmakers. (starwarsuncut.com)
- 12/28/09 - QI: Our Quite Interesting Quiz of the Decade, compiled by the elves from the TV show - You've seen Stephen Fry torment Alan Davies on the popular TV show, QI. Now it's your turn to test friends this Boxing Day with our 100 QI questions. (www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/christmas/6873367/QI-Our-Quite-Interesting-Quiz-of-the-Decade-compiled-by-the-elves-from-the-TV-show.html)
- 12/27/09 - space ace - A surprisingly addictive competitive flash game. (www.onlinegames.com/spaceace)
- 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)
- 12/23/09 - 2009 in errors and corrections - Crunks 2009: The Year in Media Errors and Corrections. (regrettheerror.com/2009/12/16/crunks-2009-the-year-in-media-errors-and-corrections)
- 12/22/09 - apartment therapy - Saving the world, one room at a time. (www.apartmenttherapy.com)
- 12/21/09 - DIY high speed photography - How to build a high speed photography rig in your garage. You might need to build a sound tigeer along the way. (diyphotography.net/diy_high_speed_photography_at_home)
- 12/20/09 - republicofbacon.com - The republic of bacon. (republicofbacon.com)
- 12/19/09 - googlestreetview - The best of Google Street View, by Gizmodo. (gizmodo.com/tag/pst/googlestreetview)
- 12/18/09 - scientific images - Popular Science's gallery of the most amazing scientific images of 2009. (www.popsci.com/node/36702)
- 12/17/09 - 2009 in photos - The year 2009 is now coming to a close, and it's time to take a look back over the past 12 months through photographs. (via Boston.com. Part 2 and Part 3. (www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/12/2009_in_photos_part_1_of_3.html)
- 12/16/09 - The people who ruined the decade - Named and shamed: the famous folk who make us glad to be leaving the noughties. (www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2009/dec/12/people-ruined-decade-intro)
- 12/15/09 - diy 2009 - Lifehacker's most popular DIY projects of 2009. (lifehacker.com/5424553/most-popular-diy-projects-of-2009)
- 12/14/09 - extreme presentation method - How to design a presentation. Including gems such as choosing the right chart. (extremepresentation.com/design)
- 12/13/09 - the 9th annual year in ideas - The Times Magazine looks back on the past year from their favored perch: ideas. (www.nytimes.com/projects/magazine/ideas/2009)
- 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)
- 12/11/09 - the steampunk workshop - All the best in steampunk culture. (steampunkworkshop.com)
- 12/10/09 - best of the decade 1900-1910 - The best movies of the first decade of the last century. (moviemorlocks.com/2009/12/08/the-decade-list-1900-1910)
- 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)
- 12/07/09 - three hundred and eight - Canadian Politics and Electoral Projections. (threehundredeight.blogspot.com)
- 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)
- 12/05/09 - evolution of the hipster - Paste Magazine traces the last decade of hipster fashion in this photo spread. (digital.pastemagazine.com/publication/?i=26727&p=29)
- 12/04/09 - Hollywood vs New York - Four decades of celluloid New York annihilation distilled into one musical montage. (www.goodiebag.tv/2009/11/hollywood-vs-new-york)
- 12/03/09 - Bart's Blackboard - Archive of Bart Simpson's blackboard writings. (bartsblackboard.com)
- 12/02/09 - top 100 wines of 2009 - The Wine Spectator top 100 wines of 2009. (top100.winespectator.com/2009.html)
- 12/01/09 - rotateme.org - The website rotator. (rotateme.org/?u=someonewhocares.org)
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