Sites of the year
No, not the most useful ones or anything helpful like that. Just a miscellany of oddments.
Before we begin, you need to make sure your screen has been properly cleaned, inside and out:http://www.raincitystory.com/flash/screenclean.swfGood, now that's done, we can begin the serious business of the 'Top linky-type things of 2009'Award for chicken-related silliness
http://www.surrealistflamebait.com/thechickening/
The Chickening is a video game about a chicken who shoots lasers. Out of his eyes.
The effort required to make a whole game from an idea this, um...
... 'niche', deserves an award in and of itself.
No awards ceremony is complete without a man in a chicken suit.Award for general wrongness
http://www.georgehutchins.com/
Where to start?
An effort of superlatively cohesive fail.Timely reminder award
On a serious note, let's take a moment to remember what could happen unless we safeguard our historic right to cats on the Internet. Bicyclic video award
Yeah, we know you've probably seen it already, but it was one of those 'holy crap, you can do that with a bike?' videos. We like bikes. Bicyclic imagery award
http://blog.anti-limited.com/?p=1528
Big yellow chopper!Music 'n' culcha award
http://weburbanist.com/2009/11/17/the-future-sounds-like-this-10-magnificently-modern-musical-instruments/
Honourable mentions among which go to the pencil-based theramin for being appropriately silly.
Award for website add-on we are least likely to use in 2010
http://www.yaoti.com/en/individual_yaoti.html
Compellingly awful. B2B sites with audio are wrong anyway: nothing says 'noodling about on the web whilst I should be working' like sound leaping out of your speakers unexpectedly. This product takes you to a new level of wrong. Single links to videos of cool stuff
Not new, just good turntablism.
Pretty, pretty time lapse.
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/80703371/
Make ravers' glow sticks in the comfort of your own home.
Joy division: the steel band years Award for summing up the futility of our creations
http://www.xkcd.com/676/Always end on a high...
