Juliette/SF

Found in today’s nytimes.com, a compelling proposal for a ballot re-design.

Amaztype uses the amazon.com API to pull search results for a given keyword, then returns results in the shape of the search term. My name returns a lot of different editions of Julie of the Wolves.

(Another great find from Kristin.)

Wordle has been making the rounds lately but I’ve just gotten in to mess around with it — and it’s fabulous.
Here is a Wordle rendering of all of my del.icio.us tags:

Sure, it’s just a tag cloud. But, because the final layout is so well done and the creation interface is so thoughtfully put together, […]

Check out Jeremy Keith’s Social Buzzword Generator at socialbuzz.adactio.com.

Why do I have to answer so many questions when I just want to shut down my laptop and go home?
Textpad: Do you want to save untitled.txt?
Me: No! If I’d wanted to save it, I would have.
Entourage: Do you want to empty your junkmail folder?
Me: I don’t care! Maybe I do, but why do I […]

Steve Ganz uncovered this gem:

The Solar Magnitude Forum concept is essentially that a given user will be most interested in topics that are either 1. very closely aligned with her interests or 2. unusually important and interesting.
The idea was initially defined within the context of the asynchronous discussion forum, but it could be extended further.
A couple days ago I […]