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Bembos Zoo: An interactive, brilliant way to tell a story about animals using typography, color and sound.

Rosa Loves: You buy a t-shirt based on a story about someone in need, and the money spent goes toward helping those people meet a goal. Wicked cool!

The Sweet Old Etcetera: an interactive web project created by Alison Clifford that sets the poetry of E.E.Cummings against an imaginary landscape.

Lesbian Gamers: Women gamers are finally coming out of the closet! Get the latest news and reviews related to lesbian gamers.

outside.in: Zoom in on the latest news, views and conversations happening in your city and your neighborhood.

lowbrow: Before Post Your Secrets there was lowbrow—and it was wicked good. It’s moved into an audio format now, and still as good as ever.

TasteSpotting: Browse through delicious photographs of food, then click on the image to get the recipe so you can actually savor the goodness.

Bent Objects: This guy takes a little bit of wire, some random household objects and bends them into creativity.

Wall House: A living structure that combines a cave, a tent and a house—oh and it’s “green,” too.

ùtilware: a blog, structured like a book, filled with useful nuggets of information and commentary—and it doesn’t look like a WordPress template.

Polling Place Photo Project: Join this experiment in citizen journalism with the New York Times and photograph your experience in this year’s political process.

BookMooch: List your used books, search for used books, mail your old books, receive old books—it’s a book exchange through the mail, and it’s free.