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Yahoo!'s Picks of the Year (12-27-99)
The Year in Review: Part Two
Continued from Part One, we proudly present
Part Deux of Yahoo!'s Picks of the Year. (Coming next week: The Best
of the Millennium!)
- MediaGossip.Com - Jim
Romenesko reports on the reporters. (Featured June 14)
- Messy Gourmet -
putting the fun back into cooking with experimental (and accidental)
recipes, gadget reviews, and helpful hints. (Featured May 24)
- New
York Times Magazine: The Times Capsule - articles and artifacts
that document the century and the millennium. (Featured April 26)
- NewsMaps - news stories
and discussion forums are mapped by topic onto a visual landscape.
(Featured April 19)
- NOVA: Decoding
Nazi Secrets - learn how the Allies cracked the codes produced by
the supposedly impenetrable Enigma machine. (Featured November 15)
- Online Exhibit Hall -
view historical documents and listen to audio of pivotal events from
America's past, presented by the U.S. National Archives. (Featured July 12)
- Origins of
American Animation - from the Library of Congress comes a
collection of films and fragments, including clay, puppet, and cut-out
animation. (Featured May 3)
- The People's
Photos - an archive of snapshots found on the street by everyday
people. (Featured July
12)
- Red's
Curse - listen to and learn about the Tube Bar recording, the
world's most famous crank call. (Featured January 25)
- Rivertrout.com - a
library of letters dedicated to the art of literary correspondence.
(Featured October 4)
- The Savvy Traveler
- Rudy Maxa and the folks at Public Radio International provide advice and
essays about the world of travel. (Featured March 22)
- SETI@home -
harnessing the spare time of hundreds of thousands of Internet-connected
computers to help search for extraterrestrial intelligence. (Featured June 14)
- Smile and Act
Nice - "in girls we trust," a magazine about sex, food, news,
home, and life. (Featured April 12)
- snapcity - documenting
life in San Francisco, New York, and places in between with
black-and-white photographs and color Polaroids. (Featured July 12)
- Stories of the
Dreaming - narratives from the cultures of indigenous Australians,
in colorful text, audio, and video. (Featured April 19)
- Superbad - beautiful
design, cryptic content, and general uselessness. (Featured February 1)
- Timothy McSweeney's Internet
Tendency - "a journal created by nervous people in relative
obscurity."
(Featured January
18)
- Unclaimed Baggage
Center - lost treasures from around the world, yours for the
asking. (Featured March
22)
- VAGUEpolitix - raw,
exciting political material explored through a variety of voices.
(Featured June 21)
- The War
Diaries - a video and written diary by a Serbian independent
filmmaker in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. (Featured April 19)
- The Whitney Museum's
American Century -
exploring 100 years of art and culture in the United States. (Featured May 3)
- Wildbrain.com - a
digital drive-in featuring games, animation, and cartoons on demand.
(Featured December
13)
- Wonders of the African World
with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - companion to the PBS series that
tells the stories of proud lands filled with great civilizations.
(Featured November
1)
- Your Nation -
discover how different the world really is. (Featured May 31)
Thanks for reading! Happy holidays ... and, as always, see you here next
week.
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Dec 20, 1999
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| Nov 29, 1999
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