One a Day
These addictive little helpers deliver a new pick-me-up every 24 hours.
WORTH1000 PICTURE OF THE DAY
www.worth1000.com/potd.as
An endless archive of weird Photoshop wizardry
Hack a Day
www.misc.hackaday.com
DIY tech projects that may take months to complete - but only a minute to grok
THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE BRAINDROPS
www.fi.edu/braindrops
Fun science facts culled from FI's vast library
DAILY PAINTERS ART GALLERY
www.dailypainters.com
Fresh masterpieces every 24 hours by not-so-tortured artists
UNIQUEDAILY.COM
www.uniquedaily.com
A compendium of online oddities, OMG!s, and WTF?s all on one big grazeable grid
DAILYHAIKU.COM
www.dailyhaiku.com
Seventeen-syllable social commentary with an edge
DODTRACKER.COM
www.dodtracker.com
One-stop shopping for deal-of-the-day sites
ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
Mind-blowing space photography with an easy-to-follow explanation written by an expert astronomer
- Sean Cooper
Top 10 Reasons We Like Lists
10. Lists condense complex information into a simple form.
9. As VH1 proves, chunking disparate ideas into a list makes nostalgia look like entertainment.
8. Essays? Annoyingly laborious. Lists? Ridiculously easy!
7. List-making lets you carve an identity from the glut of cultural artifacts out there (books, songs, movies - even geocoded, miniaturized, graffiti manga). No one can listen to every piece of recorded music, but anyone can make a list of their favorites.
6. Lists impress people during dinner parties. Sure.
5. Making a list is a way to editorialize about yourself while not actually saying anything about yourself.
4. Lists are tiny coded messages that mean everything to a targeted audience and nothing to everyone else.
3. Lists are a form of prediction; they implicitly inscribe the future.
2. Writing a list is a tidy way to summarize the past. The grocery list was created as a recall device, and the Favorites list records yesterday's desires.
1. Lists are itty-bitty utopias, perfectly structured with mathematical elegance.
- Rex Sorgatz
Top 5 List Sites
5. Tenspotting
www.tenspotting.com
4. All Consuming
www.allconsuming.net
3. Ta-da Lists
www.tadalist.com
2. Lists of Bests
www.listsofbests.com
1. 43 Things
www.43things.com
Click to Enter
The lowly link blog is the gateway to abundance.
The link blog was the first Internet organism, built from a collection of the simplest cellular units of the networked society: links. This sprawling ecosystem of social aggregators, page-rank spoofers, and quirky filters compresses ideas down to their inner nucleus. The primary organs - mass aggregators like Digg, Fark.com, and del.icio.us - arrange piles upon piles of user-submitted pages, hoping some wisdom reveals itself in the opinions of dark and formless crowds. Meanwhile, solitary link bloggers like kottke.org, Waxy.org, and your secret favorite link collector ignore the vast universe of the mediocre to reveal undiscovered morsels yet to be appraised by the algorithmic machines.
The link is its own genre: sparsely worded, underlined, a discrete distillation of a new world that lies on the other side of a click. Such a simple form, yet it connects two universes. By filtering and condensing, the link blog turns online chaos into a tidy little stack of clickable potential.
- Rex Sorgatz
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