12,000 screenshots of the front page of the nytimes.com (author caveat: unfortunately, you can only watch the whole 7 minutes if you stick to 480p).
Working on this video was fascinating because the past year was filled with dramatic events (from the Chilean miners [0:39] to the Arab Spring [3:38] and the Japanse Tsunami [4:54]) that I got to watch unfold time and time again. Watch out for them in the video; I took special care to slow down certain time periods.
Author is Phillip Mendonça-Vieira (blog). Yes, that guy who wrote ReadLess. Better explained by himself, in a TED-like video:
thesis from Phill MV on Vimeo.
He also wrote a Timelipse video HOWTO.
via Kottke