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• The Past is Over Bush impersonator reads childrens’s letters

• Typography for headlines gallery

• The World’s Tallest Virtual Building
• They are letting anyone write a children’s book these days
• Titanic 2 Great mashup

• Cabspotting Visualization of cabs in San Francisco

• The 10 Most Puzzling Ancient Artifacts
• Dictionary of Algorithms Just in case you ever wonder what the “Jaro-Winkler” algorithm looks like

• Prejudice Map Funny map created when you search for “[Country] is know for “ on google

Music of 2005

I think this was the year of going from ‘Alternative’ music (which has now become basically Popular music) to ‘Indie’ music. Classifications are always misleading and overrated yet they do symbolize what the group think of themselves. Rap means ghetto and rebellius, pop means ‘omg its like so cool’, alternative means exactly what the label indicates, and indie.. well.. its just totally different. The label has no direct corrolation to the sound: its the apex of ecletisism. So with no further ramblings, my tastes of 2005.

April

• Stereophonics: “Language. Sex. Violence. Other?” – Great when played really loudly
• The Killers: “Hot Fuss”
• Ben Folds: “Songs for Silverman” – I checked every day on iTunes for the day I could download the album

• Electric Light Orchestra

May

• New Order: “Waiting for the Siren’s Call”
• Brazillian Girls – How can one not like this band’s name.
• Beck: “Guero”
• U2 – All of the albums at once, great stuff.

• Snow Patrol – Hardly new, yet I never heard their Indie roots.

June

• Coldplay: “X & Y” – I still have mixed feelings about it

• Annie: “Anniemal” – Euro Pop!

July

• Bright Eyes: “I’m wide awake, it’s morning”

September

• KT Tunstal: “Eye to the Telescope“8
• DJ Shadow – Porbably the only ‘rap’ which I like
• Modest Mouse: “Good News for People Who Love Bad News”

• Caesars: “Paper Tigers”

October

• Kaiser Chiefs: “Employment”
• Bloodhound Gang: “Hefty Fine”
• Death Cab for Cutie
• Her Space Holiday: “The Young Machines”
• Elliot Smith: “Figure 8”
• Jets to Brazil: “Four Cornered Night”

• Wilco: “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot”

December

• Rilo Kiley
• The Streets: “Original Pirate Material” – UK Rap is silly

• Madonna: “Confessions on a Dance Floor”

• Blank Tapes
• Parasitic Subway Projector

• Mint I rarely buy programs, specially small ones. Mint is an exception. It is the most amazing site statistics program I have seen. What makes it so wonderful is its simplicity – it does everything you can imagine and yet is as slick as iTunes.

• Watch Me Change Make a virtual person (male or female) and watch the person change into the clothing you pick

• Aardman Animations Very nice/funny cartoon commercials

• 12V Portable Oven and Pizza Maker “Plugs Directly into Your Cigarette Lighter Socket”. What more could you want, portable espresso machine?
• Digital Cowbell 12 distinct cowbells in one

• Condom advertisement Amusing posters (all rated PG)

Dorm Room Feng Shui

Dorm Room Feng Shui: Find Your Gua > Free Your Chi By:Katherine Olaksen, Elizabeth MacCrellish, Margaret M. Donahue

I have not yet read this book but it sounds very interesting. More interesting even is that last year I seemed to have followed a lot of what is in it without knowing.

• Dustin Hoffman has breasts Very scary
• Arial or Helvetica? Most don’t care about fonts but I for one am very particular about the font used in any print medium. Have fun with this quiz (I got 100%)
• My Life as a…Gas Station Attendant

• Waiter Rant Dooce quality

• Blogging The Fifth Nail Journal of a man being held for murder and kidnaping in Idaho (very amazing reading)
• FanDeath.net The belief that if someone is sleeping in a sealed room with an electric fan on, they could die.
• Lost Frog

• Our Documents Just about every famous document having to do with the US from “Lee Resolution” to “Plessy vs. Ferguson” all in really high resolution. I could spend hours looking at the 100 documents offered