20 July 2008
Websites with Narrow Focus, X
I've been saving them up for this post.
It's Lovely! I'll Take It!, "a collection of poorly chosen photos from real estate listings. With love." And comments. Don't miss it.
potentially nervous: "The world's going to hell. Here are some bunny photos."
How I Spent My Stimulus. Tell your story.
Kim's Page o' Chopsticks. Chopstick wrappers, actually. (Thanks, Mike.)
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04 February 2008
What I Killed Today
That's the name and content of the website of a female, vegan veterinary technician: "I work with a lot of injured wildlife. Also not wild animals that are just in a lot of pain. Sometimes I have to euthanize them. I decided to record each animal I euthanize here."
via TMN
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03 February 2008
Websites with Narrow Focus, IX
I Found Your Camera (or Memory Card): A brand new website where you can look for your orphaned photos or share pictures that have come from a found camera. (via PostSecret today)
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20 November 2007
Extremely Focused Websites (in a continuing series)
( via WaiterRant )
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30 October 2007
Disapproving Rabbits
Maybe that sounds like a metaphorical title, but it's not. (via, and explained by, Neatorama)
And definitely check out the 30-Second Bunnies Theatre Library. Casablanca, Napoleon Dynamite, James Bond medley, Christmas Vacation, It's A Wonderful Life, Caddyshack, Reservoir Dogs (bleeped and unbleeped), Jaws, Fight Club, and lots more, all re-enacted in 30 seconds by bunnies!
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19 June 2007
Websites with Narrow Focus - VI
Wrecked Exotics: "The internet's largest collection of exotic car crash photos. We display over 6,000 wrecked exotic cars to show you the real consequences of reckless driving. These car crash pictures involve some of the most expensive automobiles ever produced including Lamborghini, Ferrari, Mclaren F1, Bugatti and more. All in all, you'll find almost a quarter of a billion dollars worth of damage within this car crash collection." (Photo: wrecked 2005 Bentley Continental)
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12 February 2007
Websites with a Narrow Focus - V
Yet another in a series of websites with a very slender focus. (For previous: here, here, here, and here.)
Brief History of the Invention & Development of Barbed Wire, from the Devil's Rope Museum in McLean, TX. Essay topics: Brief History of Barbed Wire; Before Barbed Wire; Open Range to Total Enclosure; Essay on Fences; BW Biographies. Plus -- Links to Making Wire, Wire Identification (a Barb Wire Collecting Guide), Barb Wire Images, War Wire, Barb Wire Monument, and a Barb Wire Collage (why?).
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24 September 2006
Websites with a Narrow Focus - IV
Another one:
Stand In A Queue: Standing in Queues Across Britain. Photos and commentary about standing on line, whether on foot or in vehicle. I particularly like this one (illustrated with a series of photos):
"Most would call this a traffic jam, but really it behaves like a queue. We are on a dual carriageway and at the end is a roundabout where most of us want to turn right. If we were on the continent both lanes would be filled, with cars trying to nudge into the right lane just before or even on the roundabout. But we're not on the continent, this is England.
"As soon as you realise you are not in the lane that you should be, you must instantly stop and indicate. Then slowly and apologetically, for you are a queue jumper, you must nudge your way in, and once in you must either wave thank you to the driver who has just let you in or flash your hazards to show your appreciation. It is much more of a social taboo to queue jump than it is to hold up traffic, and it is this queue jumping taboo that keeps us from doing it closer to the roundabout. Because if we did, people would tut."
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30 August 2006
Websites with Narrow Focus - III
Another website with a narrow focus (like these and this):
The History of Sanitary Sewers, created and maintained by Jon C. Schladweiler: Includes a timeline (World Sewer History; History of Sewers in U.S. Metropolitan Areas); photos and graphics of components of sewer systems, design, construction, maintenance and safety, private sanitary facilities, public baths, sewer history by region and by era; a bibliogaphy of books, journals, and web sources; and a miscellaneous section of poems and songs, jokes, and "sewers in the news."
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23 April 2006
Websites with a Narrow Focus
Another website with a narrow focus, which I stumbled upon today while researching and writing profiles of some children's book authors and illustrators: Hay in Art.
It's extensive. There's a database of more than 5,200 hay images -- works of art and photos featuring the element of hay -- and dozens of essays about hay in art and literature. There are subsections of images (with descriptions) for hay in winter, and hay on water (mostly being transported by ship), as well as:
- a checklist for poetry about hay
- a fascinating section about hay mistakes called "Missed stacks and mistakes: distinguishing between hay and straw and other heaps"
- a short list (with descriptions and artwork images) of books for children that prominently feature hay
- a longer section of books about hay for adults
- a hay glossary and polyglot hay (10 hay-related words rendered in 21 languages)
- a miscellany of "hayana" with hay humour, hay festivals, hay mythology, hay in Shakespeare
and so on ... Not to be missed!
(Image shown is a children's book illustration by Sandra Dunn.)
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29 December 2005
Extremely Focused Websites
There's something magnetic about websites with a narrow, honed, slightly off-kilter focus. Like an eccentric who collects sugar packets or the typographical examples of the letter 'g', they compel me to stop and think about the fascination and appeal of the one object or aspect.
Here are a few that appeal to me:
- Literally, A Web Log, whose sole purpose is to track and report instances of abuse of the word "literally." And similarly, the Gallery of "Misused" Quotation Marks.
- Toothpaste World. Yes, there was once 6-proof Scotch Whiskey toothpaste. And ... Starkist Toothpaste??
- One of my favourite websites, The Afterlife Cemetery ... photos of cemeteries (some seem to be ... altered) with audio clips of ethereal music. I like to meditate to it.
- Frank's Compulsive Guide to Postal Addresses: Effective Addressing for International Mail. Detailed.
- The One-Minute Audio Vacation, "unedited recordings of somewhere, somewhen. Sixty seconds of something else. Sixty seconds to be someone else."
UPDATE 5 March 2006: lowercase L : The sole reason for the existence of this blog: "Ever notice hand-written signs with letters in all-caps, except for the letter L? It looks like an uppercase i ... WHY DO PEOPlE WRITE lIKE THIS?"
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