Sunday, Feb 18, 2007
BrowseGoods (currently in beta) is a new visual search engine for shopping. It aims to help shoppers quickly visually scan through large numbers of items rather than by paging through endless text-heavy lists of search results.
The UI will be immediately familiar to anyone who’s used Google Maps, with the familiar pan & zoom functionality (and UI widgets), and also to anyone who’s read Jef Raskin’s The Humane Interface. After a quick intro screen, you start by selecting a department (currently they have shoes, toys, watches, and sports), after which you’re shown a high-level overview of all the products in that department. From there, you can click on a product category to zoom closer.
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Sunday, Feb 18, 2007
City Creator is a fun little site that lets you easily create your own pixel-art cities like the recently-mentioned Lovepixel. The site is really simple and lets you get started making your own city right away — no account registration required. You choose a city theme (currently there are three — futuristic Blankton, snowy Snoland, and medieval Medieville) and begin creating your city by drag and drop. When you’re finished, you can save your city design or send it to a friend, but to do so, you have to register.
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Saturday, Feb 17, 2007
This is a little customization I made to my site’s WordPress theme that I thought might be useful to others.
I wanted my site’s homepage, kolossus.com, to be my blog’s homepage, so that my most recent posts would show up there. No problem… But I also wanted my site’s homepage to have an introductory blurb at the top listing my most recent projects. The blurb is kinda big (I am partial to my mascot), and it really doesn’t belong on any page other than the site root.
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Saturday, Feb 17, 2007
Sheeit, that almost rhymes. Anywho, it’s Saturday, so I feel like sharing some fun & interesting links with all my non-readers:
I’m absolutely addicted to this satirical blog. Anybody who’s into Apple or has watched Steve Jobs over the years should get a kick out of this frequently-updated site.
Do you groan every time you want to try a new site out and you have to create a new user account. Do you hate the way sites nag you that your profile is “only 27% complete”? Then check out this funny parody site.
Have a fetish for pixel art? Then check out this page, which has to be the most ridiculously ginormous pixelated isometric-viewopoint metropolis on teh intarweb. Be patient — the goodness takes a while to load.
This article is about just that — thriteen still-unsolved mysteries of science, from the placebo effect to the effectiveness of ultra-diluted homeopathic remedies.
A study showing that images of “watching eyes” taped to walls will keep people more honest when nobody else is around. Big Brother is watching you masturbate!
This one is a bit ironic for me to point out, as I’ve always tended to stay more on the virtuous, overachiever side of things, and I currently spend most of my time working at my computer. But hey, do as I say, not as I do, right?
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Friday, Feb 16, 2007
It’s my turn to add to the hundreds of horror stories people have posted about RegisterFly, possibly the world’s worst domain registrar.
Years ago, when I didn’t know any better, I registered a few dozen domains with RegisterFly that have remained mostly unused. Over the years they’ve provided shitty support, have overcharged my credit card, have had unexplainable DNS & webmail outages, and have been combative when dealing with support & billing issues. However, out of extreme laziness, I never transferred the domains I’d registered with them to another registrar… until now.
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