Yes, it's that time again. Time to look back over the past year and acknowledge some of the many outstanding sites we've seen and featured. And so, without further adieu, we present Part One of our 1999 Picks of the Year. Enjoy...

• Ad*Access - images and information from over 7,000 advertisements printed between 1911 and 1955. (Featured November 8)
• Adbusters' Culture Jammer's Headquarters - allows culture jammers to learn about, and take steps to stop, the marketing pollutants in our mental environment. (Featured May 10)
• Art Cows Chicago - offers a virtual tour of the public art exhibit on display in Chicago June 15 - October 31, 1999, including photos of the life-sized fiberglass cows. (Featured July 26)
• BBC World Service: My Century - thematic weekly features focus on a particular aspect of life in the 20th century. (Featured June 7)
• Billboard Liberation Front - encouraging people to use any means possible to commandeer the existing media and alter it to their own design. (Featured February 22)
• BrainPOP - offers educational movies and activities about health and science topics, geared for kids. (Featured July 5)
• Bring the Rock - resource for fans of independent music. (Featured June 21)
• Head Sounds: Psychedelic Rock - a flashy look at the bands, the music, and the scene of the psychedelic 1960s. (Featured November 22)
• Build Your Own Boba Fett - amazingly detailed step-by-step instructions on recreating the Fett magic. (Featured May 10)
• Cat Scan Contest - displays entries and winners in a contest of images of digitally scanned cats. (Featured June 28)
• Closing: The Life and Death of an American Factory - documenting the final months at the 111-year-old White Furniture Company of North Carolina, after being bought out and downsized. (Featured March 29)
• Dot City: Dorothy Parker's New York - photo gallery and walking tour of Dorothy Parker's Manhattan homes, hangouts, and haunts. (Featured August 23)
• Fading Ad Campaign - photographic project documents vintage painted ads on building brickfaces in New York City. (Featured February 1)
• Fametracker - "The Farmer's Almanac of Celebrity Worth." (Featured July 19)
• Harry Smith Archives - the world of Harry Smith (1923-1991) — painter, archivist, folk musicologist, filmmaker, and more. (Featured March 29)
• Former Child Star Central - source of weird tidbits and assorted happy/sad news items for the study of ex-kid stars. (Featured February 15)
• Gallery of Obscure Patents - highlighting the bizarre and the unusual, from IBM's Intellectual Property Network. (Featured September 6)
• Hearing Voices - an eclectic collection of audio excursions from public radio producers. (Featured August 23)
• Inexplicable Object of the Week - a bewildering assortment of things that will have you questioning humanity. (Featured February 22)
• Kaliber 10000 - a destination devoted to web design, typography, and cool. (Featured June 14)
• Kathy's Shrine to Chevys - a woman obsessed. Check out Kathy's "Overall Chevys Rankage." (Featured October 18)
• Lost and Found Sound - a look at some of the first sound recordings, brought to you by NPR and its listeners. (Featured April 5)
• Mark Ryden - paintings about God, children, and USDA grade A beef. (Featured February 22)

Tune in next week for more. Until then, happy holidays and thanks for reading!