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Yahoo!'s Picks of the Year (1-4-99)
The Year in Review: Part Two
Welcome to Part Two of our special year-end selection of Weekly
Picks, a look at some of the great sites we featured in 1998. Thanks
for your support throughout the past year; we're hoping for more of the
same as we careen towards the 21st century. Next week we return to our
regular programming. Until then, please, take your (year-end) pick(s).
- Mark Twain
at Large - a terrific online exhibit of the author's travel
papers, from the Bancroft Library of the University of California,
Berkeley. (Featured December 14)
- Microsoft
Terraserver - Big Brother is watching. Here's the proof.
(Featured July 6)
- Name
That Candybar - identify a candy bar by looking at its cross
section. Is it a Butterfinger? Mars Bar? You decide. (Featured May 11)
- New
York Underground - explore the Big Apple's core, thanks to the
National Geographic Society. (Featured August 3)
- NYCabbie - a startling
collection of photographs and stories from real-life New York cab drivers.
(Featured November
23)
- Obsessive Fan Sites
- "excess that only the internet can provide." (Featured August 31)
- Online
Diary of Mr. Gall's Second Grade Class - cute as cute can be.
(Featured January 5)
- Online Surgery -
thanks for the mammaries. (Featured December 7)
- Roller Coasters - a
detailed look at the ups and downs of everybody's favorite summer escape.
(Featured August 10)
- Rolling Stone Radio
- let the good times roll, it's an online radio service from Rolling Stone
Magazine and RealNetworks. (Featured November 9)
- rotodesign -
a veritable compendium of online wackiness from a San Francisco-based
graphic designer. (Featured April 6)
- Revealing
Things - a look at people, possessions, and culture at the
Smithsonian's first exhibit created specifically for the Internet.
(Featured March 23)
- Temp 24-7 - dedicated to
the wild, wacky, and often depressing world of temporary employment.
(Featured January 26)
- The American Museum of
Photography - a privately held collection of images from the first
75 years of photography. (Featured October 12)
- The Andy Kaufman Home
Page - dedicated to a man who was, among other things, an uncanny
Elvis impersonator, world-class conga player, and All-Time World
Inter-Gender Wrestling Champion. (Featured July 13)
- The Fabulous Ruins of
Detroit - an "Ode to the Motor City" by one who loves it well.
(Featured November 2)
- The Bad Fads
Museum - where bellbottoms, pet rocks, and dance marathons go to
die. (Featured May 4)
- The
Flummery Digest - loopy news articles, bizarre office memos, and
offbeat interview transcripts; it's an all-inclusive litany of real-life
silliness. (Featured April 13)
- The Museum of Bad Art -
"art too bad to be ignored." (Featured July 20)
- The Open Diary - an
online diary community that invites you to share you every thought and
feeling with the world at large. (Featured November 9)
- The
Physics of... - Mr. Tom Robinson's Physics classes at Kentridge
Senior High School have put together an index of all things physical. From
aviation to tennis, they've got it covered. (Featured September 28)
- They Still Draw
Pictures - drawings by children during the Spanish Civil War,
circa 1938. (Featured June 22)
- ThinkQuest - a
site-design contest for students the world over. Source of many terrific
picks in 1998, including The
Living Africa, Totally
Tessellated, Modern
Masterworks, and others.
- TV Ultra - there's at
least one good show on television every day, and this site will find it
for you. (Featured December 21)
- Viewlogy - what happens when
grieving goes multimedia. (Featured March 16)
- Voycabulary - an
interactive dictionary and thesaurus that lets you check the words of any
online document for meaning and definition. (Featured December 14)
There you have it! The year in review. Hope you enjoyed the sites. See you
next week.
If you know of any timely, informative, or wacky web sites, please drop us
a note. Also, feel free
to send any general thoughts
or comments about Picks.
Previous Weeks' Picks: [
Dec 28, 1998
| Dec 21, 1998
| Dec 14, 1998
| Dec 7, 1998
]
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