Best of the Web, January 9, 2010

WEB WONDERS

To join the Lying Down Club, you must be photographed horizontal. Arms straight and flat against your sides, body rigid, and face down. Like you are a human ironing board. Then upload your photo to Facebook and add it to the Lying Down Game's photos. That's it. This simplest of concepts became one of the biggest hits on Facebook this year. It's a whole new kind of fun invented by the internet just for you.

www.lyingdowngame.net

Go to this site and ask it a question. Do you want to know what the general consensus is on Barack Obama's administration? What people think about Jaffa Cakes? Whether X Factor is still any good? This site will tell you. It searches Google, Yahoo or Bing.com (or all three) and summarises the positive and negative answers it finds, then shows you a simple chart. Use it to win bets and prove your points in school essays.

www.whatdoestheinternetthink.net

What weird oddnesses do you notice as you're walking around? Next time you notice something, snap a photo of it and stick it here. Just noticing something gets you 10 points. Noticing something every day for a week gets you 70 more. Noticing something lost doubles your score.

www.noticin.gs

WEIRD WIKIPEDIA

The number of the vampire

www.tinyurl.com/bm7km

Comparing apples and oranges

www.tinyurl.com/ke724

Wrds wtht vwls

www.tinyurl.com/42thqb

Mr Dick Assman

www.tinyurl.com/9qjao

WEB KNOWLEDGE

Amazing crayon sculptures

www.tinyurl.com/yb9bkx6

Inside Russian war bunkers

www.tinyurl.com/ye7k24a

Creepy TV ads

www.tinyurl.com/ybgbffl

2010 odd science awards

www.tinyurl.com/y9jogps

Brrr, put another bunny on the fire

www.tinyurl.com/yanhu8y

Top NASA images of all time

www.tinyurl.com/yhmwu3h

Sam Mendes to direct Bond

www.tinyurl.com/y9hf8rd

2009 was Sandra Bullock's year

www.tinyurl.com/yeqbxzk

Beneath the Vegas strip

www.tinyurl.com/y8a3qkm

Bending electricity

www.tinyurl.com/ycryndd