iPod Giveaway #5: The Great Unknowns
Original illustration by Michael Schwab.For the 5th Monthly Mike Industries iPod-A-Month Creativity Competition, we’re going to keep it extremely simple. So simple, in fact, that you aren’t even the one who has to be creative. The winner of this competition will be the person who posts the best site I’ve never seen in the comments.
If you have a site you’d like to nominate, by all means do, but please no self-promotion whatsoever. If all goes well, we’ll have a nice little huge page full of inspiration by the time everyone’s done.
Here are the rules:
- Post the URL on the first line. If you can write a lick of HTML, try to link it properly. Here’s how —
<a href="http://www.theurlofthesite.com">Site Title</a> - Post an explanation of exactly one sentence or one word (or none at all). Anything more than one sentence will be disqualified.
- On or around midnight on
the last day of AugustMonday, August 22nd, I will close the contest and pick my five favorites. - I will then post the five favorites, and using the new Mike Industries Polling System, I’ll put it up for a vote. Most votes wins.
* One entry per person only. Multiple entries will be disqualified and overtly offensive material removed. Multiple entries are also considered overtly offensive.
As always, the winner will receive a brand new iPod Shuffle from me and a pair of $150 Etymotic ER-6i earbuds from iLounge. iPod fans might also want to check out iLounge’s free iPod Book as well.
Good luck, and you can’t tell me it gets any easier than this!
Helpful hint: If the site you submit requires 20 minutes of time just to figure out what’s going on, I probably won’t get past the first minute.
Jowlers.com
The best site you’ve never seen.
Dan Rather
Alveolata Noctiluca Neonlight - Just use your mouse.
SpotBus
Design Pride
Can anyone say excellent?
Remember Rainier
Never forget your last drink on the Downstroke
forgetfoo
The oddest mix of AJAX/CSS/Babe/Politics/Graphic Design discussions you’ll ever see.
Lucky13 Italy
BlogNomic
A Nomic (game based on the procedures and mechanics behind creating, changing, and repealing game rules) played on a weblog.
Zephyr Syndicate
OK, I really wanted to use one of my sites, but this one is just so much more impressive then my own work.
(BTW, I never noticed the checkmark in the visited links before. That is a clever idea.)
Things in Rubbers
Huh?
Philosophy
Flash Earth
Two issues of Wet Magazine from the 70’s
It may not be a “web site” in the design-sense of the word, but damn, is it inspiring.
Guess The Google it’s a game. You have 20 seconds to guess the keyword that gave as result that 20 images. Good luck.
You’ve probably seen Avalonstar.
New in Philly
Amazing Design with Great Content.
Centricle
Simply beautiful (click back)
The Best Page in the Universe
Quite scathing.
Don’t Click It
Superbad
Eight years old and still lives up to the name.
There’s one rule: you cannot use the back button.
Bad Album Covers
I’m sure we’ve all seen it, but it’s worth posting for the edification of mankind and future generations.
http://www.khaaan.com
Khaaan!
You can do anything… at zombo.com
Only since tubgirl.com is no more:
Phono Phunk
Slick design with an interface that rivals most desktop apps.
The Vice Guide To Everything
Rate Your Music
I’m surprised that this this IMDb-like site (but for music) isn’t more popular.
Three Quarks Daily
Science slash art slash news slash pinker and dawkins endorsements.
Scripture Mail
It is clean, clear, and gets the message across.
Randall Levensaler Photography
Great use of JavaScript.
Defrost Network
Provides a community for freelancers to communicate with potential clients, a way to mobilize groups of freelancers, and a gallery of solid inspirational work.
The Flash Video Mixer
It may be slightly clunky, but it’s absorbed countless hours of my time with which I should probably be doing something constructive.
Adopt A Chicken Today.
Science Toys
From electric motors to film can cannons.
Forests Forever
If Only Life Was Predictable
See how you’ll look like in 40 years.
PostSecret - Share your secrets.
Temple Ov Thee Lemur
Wasting your bandwidth since 1893.
Tongsville City
elliott…
survived by his music
Waking Ideas
Sir Francis Drake was killed by Robot Pirates and will haunt you forever!
Nichtlustig
I guess the comics work only in German, but the site is great, anyway.
Cyberscore
Perhaps more of interest for it’s Zen Garden-inspired skinnable CSS design (over 10 skins so far and we’ve only been going three weeks) than it is for it’s content - unless you’re a gamer, that is - Cyberscore v3 is the result of five months work rebuilding a fallen high scores archive.
Teodor Droscaru
Map Of Springfield
If you don’t like ‘The Simpsons’ don’t click the link (and go sit in the corner)
flickr tag browser
so simple, so addictive.
Million dollar domain, Million dollar website!
Beutiful!
Lana Landis
Kollermedia.at
Just check pattern4u in Menu
inspireme.tv is a creative, video, approach to encourage inspiration through designers and artists eyes as to their inspiration an enviornment.
Breed Hive
So… organic.
Film Wise
FilmWise Invisibles, great way to waste a lot of time.
Ozone
You’ve probably seen Doc Ozones work before (I’ll have to take the chance you haven’t), since he’s been around the net since the early 90’s, but it’s still one of my favorite sites.
My buddy Jon Buda’s website.
DeviantArt
The best contributed graphics I’ve seen.
Pi to 1,000,000 decimal places
The name says it all.
PHPDeveloper.org
A news site devoted to the PHP language.
The Awful Forums - Comedy Goldmine
Because sometimes, content really is where it’s at.
Bembo’s Zoo
Irregular Orbit
Ookworld’s wobbly satellite.
mi3
Bad Design Kills, really.
Chickenhead
Check out Bannertown — always good for a few laughs.
CarlLewis.com
Indescribable.
Artorg
One of the best art communities out there that I’ve every found.
the place
This is one of the first sites I’ve been to (almost 10 years ago) that opened my eyes to the possibility of the web as a compelling art medium.
Coudal Partners
Kitten War
Nobody can resist a kitten.
My Wife’s Art Site
Group Hug
We’re all sick
Aerian Photograph Portfolio
look the sky ;-)
Lepel.nl
“Lepel” is spoon in Dutch, so you won’t find a higher “URL-name compared to actual content” ratio anywhere on the web.
Overheard in the Office
Never fails to make me laugh.
Jamming a Pair of Scissors Repeatedly Into Your Crotch
Urban Dictionary
The best and truest definitions found on the web.
Challies.com
Beautiful site with with some uniquely well done theological content.
http://www.wherethehellismatt.com/dancing.htm
Dancing around the world…
ClientCopia
Ben Fry
Amazingly useful ways to look at information through Java appletts!
Zerophase.
Pixel2Life tutorial listing
The best tutorial listing on the net, helping learners to learn through providing a search of thousands of tutorials in the sites index.
bartleme design
Black People Love Us
Take a look, they really do.
Dont know what glue to use?
Homestar Runner
On a scale of 1-Awesome, SUPER AMAZING.
A Polite Winter
Love the illustrations.
Heavans-Above Iridium flares site
It lets you find the time and location of iridium flares, brief flashes of light caused by reflections off satellites, based on your location in the world (in this case, Seattle).
Airbag
orisinal.com
TheShiznit.co.uk
… because movies kick ass.
J.K. Rowling’s Web Site
This is one of my favorite sites because of it’s totally immersive experience. Quite an impressive use of flash.
Watercolors & Origamic Architecture
Landscapes and landmarks
Limmy.com
If you like dark, Monty-Python-like humor from Scotland. Roll over the boxes on the top section and go to Videos.
MpP Favicon Gallery
http://www.reelfx.com/
Excellent commercial projects, and a nice looking site!
Woodford Reserve Stables
High end bourbon, and horse racing, can’t go wrong.
Blackpulp.com
Great site.
MIT’s OpenCourseWare
a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners around the world
I like this…
Their Circular Life
Digg
Constantly updated, user submitted news that is relevant to web folks like us.
Cheap Gas
Very Useful
Passion06
Site has it all; cool, revelant, music, design and call to action!
Great Pixels
Very dynamic site.
Batgirl
A Twins-centric baseball blog from a different point of view.
devtoys.com - stuff for geeks
Grey Goose Vodka
A truly remarkable flash site.
The Bee With Wheels
The definition of an artist.
iMySelf and Me : a Podfolio
I hope nobody’s posted this one yet. It’s the best portfolio site I’ve seen. Play around with the controls…it’s really cool!
Muffinfilms
The best muffin-themed flashed cartoons you’ve never seen.
http://www.guidebookgallery.org/
Everything you ever wanted to know about computer GUI’s; timelines, examples, screencaps, etc.
Check out Belief’s Videos (particularly the “Pollinate Sessions”) for a creative kick in the butt.
Woops… technically the link is still on the first line. Well enjoy anyway everyone!
Nowforevermine
My fellow colleague’s site that I have yet to top.
Donavon Frankenreiter
Beautiful Flash-work that doesn’t bog down older computers, amazing!
http://particletree.com/
One word: Content.
Subservient Chicken
You tell the chicken what to do, and it does it….best site ever.
TiddlyWiki
Let’s try functionality over form; it’s a wiki, it’s a blogger, it’s a non-linear “notebook,” it’s entirely self-contained in one file, needs no server-side logic, and requires only a browser to use - save a copy of the page locally, and you’re good to go.
Gizoogle… hours of fun.
Drexel University’s College of Media Arts & Design
I stumbled upon this blog a while ago, but I have found out that lots of different people are all captivated by it as I was. I would recommend that you read it from the beginning.
nothing’s going to change my world
It’s nothing overtly cool, but if you read enough of it, you’ll really get hooked.
World Jump Day
Let’s all jump, I know it will work!
the unseen video
A weather controlled, dynamic music video.
redfin
If you’re looking to buy a house in Seattle this is a great place to start.
Tokyo Plastic
Continues to stun me.
Overheard in New York
Makes me want to live in New York - no, really.
Bit-101
Simply amazing use of Flash in the Bit-101 lab.
About BLOG Depression
“there is a growing epidemic in the cyberworld. a scourge which causes more suffering with each passing day…”
Pixel Ranger
Vile Things
Halloween props and projects
Wikipedia
Not particularly obscure, but you can seriously get lost for days just learning stuff.
Magic Hat Brewing Company
Great beer from this Vermont Brewery and a wicked flash website.
Carnal Cookies
Site Title
Learn the secret to eternal life, world peace and who God is.
Proliferate Underground Music
http://hongkongcavalier.blogspot.com/
Just a blog, but uses links in a way I’ve not seen before.
Mother of all Deals
The greatest site you ever seen that collects deals from many sites and puts them together on a page to browse and search..