Yahoo! Website Finds of the Year 2007: Weird & Wonderful
Annually since 2003, Yahoo! UK & Ireland has been handing out their “Finds of the Year” awards to the most interesting and innovative websites of the year. Yahoo! UK’s panel of judges chooses a winner and several runners-up in nine categories:
In addition, users are invited to review the nominees in each group and vote for their favorite to win the People’s Choice category.
Here are some of our favorites from the Weird & Wonderful winners.
Weird & Wonderful Finds of the Year 2007
Faces in Places, Winner: Faces in Places collects photos of the various faces people have found in everyday locations.
Even if you’ve never been able to make out the old man in the moon or Jesus in a tortilla, we guarantee that after one tour through this site, you’ll be seeing faces where you never expected: in mops and typewriters, on noodles and pizza slices.
One of our favorites is Potty, which captured smiling faces, made with a stovetop, bottle tops, and pencils, on two ordinary cooking pots.
Got a great face photo of your own? Add it to the Faces in Places Flickr group.
Toy Voyagers, Runner-Up: This site follows the adventures of toys traveling around the globe with the help of humans. If you’ve ever seen the 2001 French movie Amélie, where a lawn gnome travels the world with his journey recorded in photographs and letters home, it’s the same general idea.
Users register their toys and set up a character profile and life mission. Each toy can then keep a travelogue or diary, documenting its globe-trekking adventures by posting written entires and photos of its journey.
Fishycam, Runner-Up: Just two goldfish in a fishbowl tracked by a webcam. It may sound boring, but there’s something weirdly hypnotic about the ever-circling fish. Tune in for a few minutes, and you may just find yourself hooked.
The cam quality’s a little sketchy, but site-owner Stephan is taking donations to collect the £300 he needs for a new webcam, if you feel like contributing to the Fishcam cause.
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