site of the day archive for 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)
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