site of the day archive for june 2009
- 06/30/09 - moviebodycounts.com - Movie Body Counts tallies the actual, visible "on screen kills/deaths/bodies" of your favorite action, sci/fi, and war films. (moviebodycounts.com)
- 06/29/09 - sixtysymbols.com - Videos about the symbols of physics and astronomy. (sixtysymbols.com)
- 06/28/09 - the cheeseburger show - Everything you need to know about buying a burger in Chicago. (blogs.trb.com/cheeseburgershow)
- 06/27/09 - soviet russian album covers - The top hits straight from the USSR. (englishrussia.com/?p=2998)
- 06/26/09 - evolvefish.com - Darwin fish and more for sale. (evolvefish.com)
- 06/25/09 - Great Wall of Facebook - The Social Network's Plan to Dominate the Internet — and Keep Google Out (www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-07/ff_facebookwall?currentPage=all)
- 06/24/09 - randomyoutubeinsult.com - Have you ever hated a YouTube video so much that you didn't know what to comment? Well say hello to the Random YouTube Insult Generator! Simply hit the refresh button to get a new angry comment to leave on your least favorite YouTube videos. (randomyoutubeinsult.com)
- 06/23/09 - flipflopflyball.com - Baseball infographics and other treats. (flipflopflyball.com)
- 06/22/09 - did I say that? - The latest installment in the Guardian series Did I say that? of famous people saying silly things. (www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jun/21/quotes-by-prince-philip)
- 06/21/09 - hands - The beautiful complexity of animal hands. (environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/beautiful-complexity-animal-hands/12551)
- 06/20/09 - chocolate chip cookie bowl - What to do if your son asks, "Dad, what if you made a bowl out of cookie dough?" (blog.ruhlman.com/ruhlmancom/2009/06/the-chocolate-chip-cookie-bowl-sundae.html)
- 06/19/09 - Hacking in Movies - The whole gamut of hacking portrayals in film. (www.filmroster.com/2009/06/hacking-in-movies)
- 06/18/09 - CSS3 tricks - Take your design to the next level with CSS3. (www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/06/15/take-your-design-to-the-next-level-with-css3)
- 06/17/09 - Motel America - Motel signs from around America. (www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/sets/72157603870834012)
- 06/16/09 - clever and creative ads - Over 60 clever and creative advertisements. (www.hongkiat.com/blog/60-creative-and-clever-advertisements)
- 06/15/09 - twitpocalypse - Just before midnight GMT on Friday night, Twitter hit 2,147,483,647 and many third party Twitter clients fell silent. (www.twitpocalypse.com)
- 06/14/09 - The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection - A detailed look at what goes on when your web browser hits a secure website. (www.moserware.com/2009/06/first-few-milliseconds-of-https.html)
- 06/13/09 - the permanence of ephemeral status updates - When people sign up for Twitter, post once, then never return. (www.slate.com/id/2219995)
- 06/12/09 - sign language - Each week The Telegraph presents a selection of strange signs and bizarre translations from around the world. (www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/picturegalleries/signlanguage)
- 06/11/09 - phantom traffic jams - Mathematicians take aim at 'phantom' traffic jams. (web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/traffic-0609.html)
- 06/10/09 - On the Alluring Art of the Follow Shot - "Following" is a montage of clips illustrating one of my favorite types of shots: one where the camera physically follows a character through his or her environment. An essay and video montage by Matt Zoller Seitz on this film technique. (www.thelmagazine.com/newyork/following/Content?oid=1185679)
- 06/09/09 - beer sommelier - Great Brewers has released a Beer Somelier tool. Select a meal, and it will provide an appropriate beer pairing with links to suggestions and explanations. (greatbrewers.com/beer-sommelier)
- 06/08/09 - The Sensuous Dirty Old Man - Isaac Asimov guides you through the process of becoming an old man. (vintagegirlwatchers.com/tsdom.htm)
- 06/07/09 - top 10 top 10 food lists - The best food related top ten lists. (endlesssimmer.com/2009/06/02/the-top-10-top-10-food-lists)
- 06/06/09 - space monkeys - National Geographic documents 50 years of simian space exploration. (news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/photogalleries/space-monkeys-fifty-years)
- 06/05/09 - The speed, size and dependability of programming languages - The Computer Language Benchmarks Game is a collection of 429 programs, consisting of 13 benchmark reimplemented across 33 programming languages. Guillaume Marceau uses it to graphically compare the speed vs. source-code-size metric for each benchmark of the programs in each language with some interesting results. (gmarceau.qc.ca/blog/2009/05/speed-size-and-dependability-of.html)
- 06/04/09 - Time-Lapse Videos of Massive Change on Earth - Over the past decade, the number of people on Earth shot up by more than 13 percent, to nearly 6.8 billion people. To make room for all the hungry, breeding, CO2-emitting bodies on our small planet, we've ravaged Earth's surface with staggering feats of deforestation, irrigation and urbanization and NASA satellites have captured it all. Here are a few videos, compiled from images posted on NASA's Earth Observatory, of some of the most impressive conquests of man over environment. (www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/05/earthobservatoryvideos)
- 06/03/09 - Surviving the World - Daily lessons in science, literature, love, and life. (survivingtheworld.net)
- 06/02/09 - Tweeting Too Hard - Where self-important tweets get the recognition they deserve. (tweetingtoohard.com)
- 06/01/09 - thisiswhyyourefat.com - This is why you're fat. (thisiswhyyourefat.com)
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