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Ask and ye shall receive.<\/p>\n

In an act of laziness and borderline stupidity, I set the theme of August’s iPod-A-Month Creativity Competition<\/a> to “submit the best site I’ve never seen”. I did so because I was about to leave on a trip<\/a> and didn’t have the time to cook up a proper contest.<\/p>\n

Seven days and 486 entries later, I had a real judging mess on my hands. Apologies for taking until today to get this entry up, but I spent 10 straight hours on Sunday afternoon\/evening going through each entry and picking the best of the best. Brutal, brutal work. I also had to delete about 130 entries because they were either duplicates or had no business being on the list.<\/p>\n

Originally the goal was to put the top five up for a vote, but I just couldn’t get the list down below 15, so I am presenting the top 15 sites for everyone to vote on. The person who submitted the site which receives the most votes by the end of next Tuesday (September 13th) will receive a free iPod Shuffle from me and a pair of $150 Etymotic ER-6i earbuds<\/a> from iLounge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Can I also just take a moment to say how much I love every single regular reader of this blog? The quality of the first 150 or so entries was SO much better than the last few hundred… the cause being that the last entries came from people visiting via MSNBC, Metafilter, and a few other sites which covered the contest. Nothing against outside visitors… I love all visitors. But the regular peeps here really know their stuff. Many thanks.<\/p>\n

So without further ado, I ask you to take a quick look at all 15 sites in the poll to the right and place your vote. Please either view all the sites, or click the “Show Me The Results” button. I don’t want to skew the results with people who have not checked out all 15 sites. I know 15 sounds like a lot, but it’s less than 486… and they are all very good.<\/p>\n

Happy voting and may the best site win.<\/p>\n

In addition to the finalists in the poll, the sites below all receive honorable mention:<\/p>\n