Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Best Of Year January to March

Welcome to the first of 4 posts before the year is out looking back at some of my favourite links from the last year. This post covers the months of January, February and March. Enjoy.

January
Gukanjima, Japan. In 1974, the mines had been emptied and people living in the island have deserted it, leaving everything behind, turning the island to a post-apocalyptic movie scene.

Mans guide to getting dressed

Where was your first kiss? Plotted on Google Maps.

Nuclear Nightmares. On April 26, it will be the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Last year, Robert Knoth made a photo-reportage of the lingering effects of the tragedy. See also Half-life: Living with the effects of nuclear waste

I Can Has Cheezburger? Still brillliant.

Feline Medical Curiosities

Vintage Lower Manhattan Skylines

Are you Smart or Stoopid? Quick and easy intelligence test. Do this only once and feel free to post your score in the comments. 23 was my score.

Wild Wild Words. Addictive game.

Deep Sea Frill Shark Filmed Off Japan

Nominative determinism(Wikipedia) is a term popularised by the magazine New Scientist. It refers to amusing instances where people's names coincidentally reflect some aspect of their jobs, professions or lives like Dr. Richard Chopp - Urologist. See also Funny Doctor Names and The Doctor's Names List.

Arson Sam. Traincrispsjono took the cute, stop-motion animated children's show Fireman Sam and played it backwards so it looks like he is going around causing fires and added his own rude subtitles and it makes for a great series of videos to enjoy.

Internet Archive: Pink Floyd 1984. The great 1984 comic project is merged with Pink Floyd's album the Wall. 105 MB MPEG.

The postwar photographs that British authorities tried to keep hidden

YouTube - Helicopter gives deer blow job saving its life. Not my title but it is a heart-warming story.

Roadside America - Guide to Uniquely Odd Tourist Attractions

Sknyliv (Ukraine) Airshow Disaster

Female Serial Killers


Microsoft Class of 1978
What Happened to Microsoft Class of 1978?


Ice is Dangerous, even in Portland

Homer Simpson's Words of Wisdom

Soviet Roadside Bus-stops

How Beer Works

Ferry Departing in Huge Swell. Scary.

How To Be Sarcastic: A Tutorial

Hack Flash Games

Things a Man Should Know: About Fatherhood

Honey. A sad song about a man whose girl has passed on.

Science Toys You Can Make With Your Kids

Tree goats climbing the Moroccan Argan Tree.

Peter Dench Photographry - Drinking of England. Click on Drink UK in the sidebar.

Contortion Photo Library

When celebrities speak on science

13 Photographs That Changed the World

The Tatooine Hotel | MetaFilter and photos from Flickr.

The 40 Best Celebrity Rumors Ever NSFW

Princess Juliana Airport at St Maarten

Don't Ever Get This Drunk


February
Through the Lens of Time: Images of African Americans from the Cook Collection

A Day in the Life of a British Miner. A photo essay from 1939.

What your sleeping position says about you

Funny woman trapped at fair. One of the funniest videos ever.

HTML Tags illustrated. Funny stuff.

Online Shark Pictures Gallery

Beatles Songs Analysis

GirlAlive - The British Food Experience. An American girl eats her way through the UK, detailing her adventures tasting such traditional delicacies such as haggis and scotch eggs.

Washing a cat

A huge collection of pictures of cats found on random places on the internet

Encyclopedia Astronautica


The weirdest "Drive Thrus"


Facts on Farts

The Story of Sergey Brin

Old Soviet Calculators

Bubble Islands

Science and Society Picture Library - Channel Tunnel photos

100 Most Often Mispronounced Words and Phrases in English

Shipwrecks of the Aleutian and Pribilof Islands

Nuclear Winter in Chernobyl

TV Blooper

Wouter Velthuis' Rapa Nui (Easter Island) photos

Daniel Bergmann | Iceland nature photography

African Sunsets


Frontier Multimedia - Deep Space is a multimedia trip in photographs and music from millions of light years in deep space to our own small planet Earth.


Russian bear photos

10 Things You Didn't Know About You

The Other Side of the Mirror. Sometimes it's easy to forget just how lucky we are.

Cyriak's Animation Mix

The old Russian embassy to Thailand sits vacant and derelict in Bangkok. This photo-tour is a room-by-room crawl through its rusting bones, including secret metal-lined dungeons and a padded room.

Hiroshima, the pictures they didn't want us to see

While you were sleeping and drunk pictures

Agent Orange

Monty Python and the Dalek

Zlata The Russian Contortionist

Famous Left-Handers


March
YouTube - Butterfly Lovers - The Greatest Acrobats Ever

A Frisky Dolphin

Best lightning and cloud photos.

Snow in Japan

A Note to Individuals Who Think that Their Religion is OK

World's Fattest Man In Mexico

World's Biggest Railway Model

Toys that should not exist

30 Strangest Deaths in History


The true story about space monkeys
The true story about space monkeys


So What Really Is In A McDonald's Chicken McNugget?

Maps of War

20 Things You Didn't Know About Skin

The Weirdest Frog In The World

NYC Subway Abandoned Stations

Do You Know What Lives In Your Eyelashes?

The Top 10 Weirdest Things in Space

2500+ camera instruction / user manuals


Interesting
Dummy houses in the heart of London



Prom Bombs

Things That Make You Go Ewwww!!

10 Most Magnificent Trees in the World

The Infinite Teen Slang Dictionary

the childhood beliefs site - I Used To Believe

400lb 7 Year Old Girl

The Chopped-Off Hands of Star Wars

Sun dogs, lights in the sky

Doctors of Depravity. Even by Japan's standards of wartime cruelty, Unit 731 plumbed horrifying depths - turning their prisoners into human guinea pigs for unspeakable medical experiments.


Sorry Debs :)
Myspace is Completely Retarded. Science has shown that every minute you spend on myspace is equivalent to breathing in melting plastic for several hours.


Twenty-Five Things It Took Me Over 50 Years To Learn

Shorpy Historical Photographs | The 100-Year-Old Photo Blog

The Bubble Burst: Where Are They Now?

Deserted Military Base in California

The Amazing Adventures of Morph

The flipping ship

One thing PC users can do that Mac users can't... From Maddox so it's NSFW.

A guide to words women use

Reeves & Mortimer

Coming tomorrow the best links of April, May and June.

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