Best of the Web, January 2, 2010
Simon ParkinEvery day, the White House staff in Washington DC take photos of the daily life and work of running the world's most powerful nation.Simon Parkin
WEB KNOWLEDGE
Every day, the White House staff in Washington DC take photos of the daily life and work of running the world's most powerful nation. And they stick those photos on the web for everyone to see. Gordon Brown does it too; you can see photos of everything happening at Downing Street. Both sites are a nice way of seeing the human side of top-level politics.
www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse
You may also want to watch:
www.flickr.com/photos/downingstreet
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You might not think Microsoft needs to compete with the likes of Hello! and OK! magazine, but it's doing just that with Wonderwall. It's a celebrity gossip site, but it looks completely different to all its rivals - it's a solid wall of pictures that you flick through, just like a mag. It makes blogs look a bit tired.
www.wonderwall.com
You need a web page, just for a few days. Nothing fancy. Disposable web page is your friend: grab yourself a page, edit and play with it as much as you like. It will self-destruct after 90 days.
www.disposablewebpage.com
WEIRD WIKIPEDIA
The town that only exists on Google
www.tinyurl.com/y8wn6em
Where Russian statues go to die
www.tinyurl.com/ybvdclh
Spiral island
www.tinyurl.com/b8stp
Latin profanity
www.tinyurl.com/3xex4d
WEB KNOWLEDGE
Evolution of the Olympic torch
www.tinyurl.com/y9ljbnm
Extreme playhouses
www.tinyurl.com/yd4t9su
Kung Fu monkeys
www.tinyurl.com/ybumtba
How those 3D movies actually work
www.tinyurl.com/yzg8gsr
Build yourself a bamboo bike
www.tinyurl.com/ybtdzcu
Predictable aviation disasters
www.tinyurl.com/yzy842g
World's scariest bridges
www.tinyurl.com/yadhnwa
Unsuccessful doomsday prophecies
www.tinyurl.com/ychcqfn
How to make a baby
www.otherthings.com/howtobaby
Trafalgar Square sings Hey Jude
www.tinyurl.com/c8efy5
