I’ll be the first to admit that when looking for a new book to read, the cover ranks second only to recommended by a friend in terms of what I’ll look at first, but does this prejudice actually work? Does a good cover actually predict a good book, and vice versa?
Judgeby.com aims to find out, and presents you with an endless stream of book covers that you must rate. It then matches your rating to the Amazon user’s rating to see how close the two are. I was able to guess 7 out of 10 correctly, which means I either had a good bout of beginners luck, or there’s actually a bit of falsity behind the old saying, so give it a try and see how you do.
Most people love their iPhone (myself included) but there are still a few lingering (and major) faults that owners wish Steve would fix.
To help document that wish list, FullSIX has created Please Fix The iPhone, a beautiful looking site that lets you vote on problems that need to be fixed, add your own, and see what wishes Apple has granted.
There’s even an iPhone optimized version of the site if you want to keep it pure.
Though you will probably never know if Apple is actually listening to this list, it’s at least somewhat comforting to know that thousands of other iPhone fans around the world just want a little bit of copy/paste as well.
You know you’ve done it: You’re up late watching a movie, and getting pretty tired, but you think you can make it through the end.
Suddenly you wake up in the middle of the night, and realize that the movie ended while you were asleep on the couch, and for the last who knows how many hours, the same few minutes that make up the DVD’s menu have been looping over and over like some sort of terribly ineffective alarm.
In case that’s never happened to you, or in case you want to relive the terrible moment of tired realization all over again, a delightfully simple website called “You Fell Asleep While Watching a DVD” is here to help.
Just select your movie from favorites like Knocked Up, Terminator 2, Reservoir Dogs, and more, and kick back on the fake sofa as the repeating music and oddly selected clips lull you into a trance that only a true movie watching professional will be familiar with.
Flickr’s “Explore” is Flirkr’s front page, “an introductory collection of ever-changing photos to show people the kinds of things inside the site”.
However, Explore can only highlight about 500 images per day, and since there are five thousand new images uploaded to Flickr every minute, plenty of high quality images never make it onto Explore.
To help highlight some of the other images that Flickr users have submitted, Flickr created the Flickr: Panda, a rainbow vomiting panda that spews photos from its mouth at a rate of about one every two seconds, or 43,000+ photos per day.
It might not be the front page, but how often can you say that your photo was spit up by a rainbow spewing panda bear?
On September 21, Waldo (yes, the guy in the red and white striped sweater) turned 21.
To celebrate the festivities, Waldo has kicked of a yearlong birthday celebration that includes plenty of Waldo hunts, as well as games that you can play both online and off.
Think you’ve got what it takes to answer the question, “Where’s Waldo?”
As if there was a need for another celebrity gossip blog, Ashton Kutcher’s Blah Girls is a high dollar attempt at picking up a few extra eyeballs from those that have grown tired of TMZ and their ubiquitous coverage of anything and everything celebrity related.
The site revolves around the three Blah Girls and their take on the celebrity world, and every Monday and Thursday a new animated video arrives with the latest “news”:
Will Blah Girls be the best thing to happen to the gossip world since the cell phone camera, or is this just another attempt at buying eyes with flashy design and a well-known name?
If you’re a fan of the fitted hat, then check out FITIZEN, the future home of hat lovers everywhere.
Similar to Threadless,
Fitizen is a community-driven online retailer for fitted caps. The community submits and votes on fitted cap designs, and the winning designs are manufactured and sold on the site. Creators of the winning designs receive a cash prize and store credit.
In addition, FITIZEN is designed to be a community site where hat aficionados can discuss the latest designs, work on new designs, talk about caps and share stories about hats.
In their continuing effort to prove to the world that they haven’t yet fallen off the face of it, Yahoo! has launched a campaign called “Start Wearing Purple” to emphasize the fact that they’re…purple?
Whatever the reason, one of their better purple projects is called Purple Pedals.
Think: Bikes + Flickr + GPS + Purple +Holy moly, is this one cool ride or what!?
The idea was to give camera/GPS enabled bicycles out to webrities and have them chronicle the life of their bike with pictures that are automatically taken every 60 seconds, geo-tagged, and then displayed on a Yahoo! map.
It might not get you to switch to the ‘hoo, but it’s a cool site to check out while the search wars rage on.
Umbrella Today? is a fantastically simple webapp that does one thing only but it does it well: Tell you if you need to bring along your umbrella for the day.
To use it, simply type in your zip code. Then, the site will either tell you, Yes, it’s going to be an umbrella day, or No, you’re safe for now.
However, Umbrella Today? is not just a one trick pony. If you give it your cell number and a preferred time, Umbrella Today? will send you a text message on days that it decides you need to bring an umbrella according to their weather report.
Nokia’s Music Almighty is a fantastic example of what a company can do with a store when it decides to put its best foot forward.
Choose between an Electro Blipper, Philharmaniac, Table Turnin’ Hopper, Pink Popper, or Animal Rocker, and the entire site changes to match your desires, like some sort of HTML genie.
Then, upload your own face, and Music Almighty will transform you into your genre of choice, letting you use the available sliders to customize your caricature to your liking as he/she bounces along to the beat.
It’s all rather seamless, and the experience actually makes you want to play with the phones to see what each of them will do, so I say bravo to Nokia for making anyone want to click more than a few pages deep to lean about a cell phone.
