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Sites of the Week: The Rap Map, The Ugly Dance & 1,001 Rules For My Unborn Son

The Rap Map
The Rap Map is a Google Maps mashup showing key places in hip-hop’s North American past, from lyrical references to streets to clubs to the motel that Virginia Beach rappers Clipse used to sell drugs from.
http://map.rapgenius.com

The Ugly Dance
Send your friend a customised interactive dance card now. They’ll appreciate it.
http://theuglydance.com

1,001 Rules For My Unborn Son
Boys need rules. Walker Lamond imparts his worldly knowledge down to his son via the medium of a blog. Now a book.
http://rulesformyunbornson.tumblr.com

Sites of the Week : Feedly, Awful Library Books & Crafty Memes

Feedly
Spruce up your RSS reading with this magazine-style which takes its data from Google Reader.
http://www.feedly.com

Awful Library Books
Public librarians sure can order in some odd books. This blog is reading list to avoid.
http://awfullibrarybooks.wordpress.com

Crafty Memes
Cut out and keep printable PDFs of all your favourite viral meme stars!
http://craftymemes.com

Sites of the Week: Abbey Road webcam, I’m Dating Myself, Make This Face

Abbey Road webcam
The pedestrian crossing from the cover of The Beatles’ Abbey Road has its own webcam. At any given moment, someone is trying to recreate the cover.
http://www.abbeyroad.com/visit/

I’m Dating Myself
Reader-submitted photoshopped pictures of couples who share the same face. Oddly sweet.
http://datingmyself.tumblr.com

Make This Face
Pictures of people making “the face”. It’s the one involving at least four fingers and your nose and teeth getting pushed in opposite directions. Yeh, that one. Stop that before the wind changes!
http://makethisface.tumblr.com

Sites of the Week: Mila’s Daydreams, Crap At My Parents House, Unbounded Song

Mila’s Daydreams
A mother’s playtime begins when her baby falls asleep and her child Mila becomes the centre of an elaborate photographic daydream.
http://milasdaydreams.blogspot.com

Crap At My Parents House
Paying homage to all the useless and strange objects that your parents hoard.
http://crapatmyparentshouse.com

Unbounded Song
A blog which is building an archive of one song for every country in the world.
http://unboundedsong.wordpress.com

Sites of the Week: 1001 Albums, Quarter Inch Collective & more

1001 Albums

An American Backstreet Boys fan has started a blog to listen to all of the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. She currently has listened to over 340 albums. Follow her progress.
http://www.1001albums.com

How Secure Is My Password?

Pretty self-explanatory but comforting to it would take “a quintillion years” for a desktop PC to crack your chosen password.
http://howsecureismypassword.net

Quarter Inch Collective

A small Irish label of “weird and beautiful music” who release cassette tapes and online mixtapes.

http://quarterinchcollective.com

Sites of the Week: Courtney Love’s fashion blog, Awkward Stock Photos & Hippy Kitchens

What Courtney Wore Today
Courtney Love sends photos of what’s she’s wearing to a Tumblr blog. They post the photo and comment on what she’s wearing. Why? Don’t ask silly questions, this is Courtney Love we’re talking about.
http://whatcourtneyworetoday.com

Awkward Stock Photos
Where the world of baffling and meaningless stock photography goes to die.
http://awkwardstockphotos.com
Hippy Kitchens
Vintage photographs from the kitchens of yesteryear.
http://hippykitchen.tumblr.com

Sites of the Week: Daily Puppy, Playlistify, Love GIFs

Daily Puppy
The next time your friend is in a bad mood in gChat or fuming online send them this link. Instant cheering up guaranteed.

http://www.dailypuppy.com

Playlistify
Share any playlist from iTunes or many other sources into online playlists for Youtube, Soundcloud, Spotify, Last.FM, Twitter and more.
http://playlistify.org

Love GIFs
An overload of animated images drawn from all types of culture, sport and internet memes.
http://lovegifs.tumblr.com

Sites of the Week: Rock that Font, Musical Rooms & Belfast Music

Rock That Font
A blog focusing on typography in rock ‘n’ roll, both old and new. Recommended for design geeks.
rockthatfont.com
 
Musical Rooms
Sinéad Gleeson’s blog features interviews with musicians about the space they choose to make music in. The site has posted over 100 interviews with artists like Amiina, Mogwai, Lisa Hannigan and Frightened Rabbit all grilled on their recording spaces.
musicalrooms.wordpress.com

Belfast Music
Newly launched site with info and news on Belfast music produced by Culture Northern Ireland with Belfast City Council. They’ve even produced an iPhone app. How’s that for forward thinking?
belfastmusic.org
 

Sites of the Week: Swap My City Pad, Flowing Data, One Photo Reviews

Swap My City Pad
Swap your apartment with like-minded people in other cities throughout the world and keep the cost of a holiday down considerably.
http://www.swapmycitypad.com

Flowing Data
The ultimate site for data geeks, filled with maps, charts and diagrams which visualise data from a wide-range of topics like video games, sports, history, films and business.
http://flowingdata.com

One Photo Reviews
Scott reviews the latest film blockbusters not with flowing prose but with single shot profile pics of himself.
http://onephotoreviews.tumblr.com

Sites of the Week: Vuvuzela Time, Hypetrak, Liblr

Vuvuzela Time
Add the vuvuzela horn to any website.
http://www.vuvuzela-time.co.uk

Liblr
Replace key phrases in Twitter updates to give that tweet a whole new meaning.
http://liblr.com

Hypetrak
Super fresh new music updates with an emphasis on hip-hop. This blog is fast becoming a first port of call.
http://hypetrak.com