Yet another new feature in the RIAA Radar, except this time it’s bigger: search and browse through results like it’s your damn birthday. Besides being able to buy your Sauconys and novelty t-shirts on eBay, being indie has never been easier.
RIAA Radar launches
Special super-hot news/self-post!
RIAA Radar: The RIAA Radar is a tool that music consumers can use to easily and instantly distinguish whether an album was released by a member of the Recording Industry Association of America. You add the bookmarklet to your favorites list, go to any album on Amazon, click the bookmark and it will tell you if the album was released by a member of the RIAA!
Start a parcel delivery business right at airport security checkpoints
Idea of the century: Start a parcel delivery business, set up shop right at airport security checkpoints. Have people send their confiscated (or about to be confiscated) items either back home or to the place they’re going to.
Combine Map of the Market with an actual aerial map of a city
LazyWeb, I invoke thee! (Since I do not have the ability to trackback, this is really just me yelling out to noone in particular…) Someone should somehow combine the Map of the Market with an actual aerial map of a city (or “market”, if you will). Use company addresses to plot their location on a map, and show the graphic representation of their stock price (ala the green/red color blocks in SmartMoney’s version) over the plot of their building/campus on the map.
I’m not sure how truly useful of an application this might be, but I think it would be interesting and I could see myself sucked into it for hours on end. It also might be interesting seeing how certain sectors of industry are clustered near each other (think semiconductors in Silicon Valley), and how that might make the whole city or area’s map look.
Should Safari be intentionally buggy?
Phillip Winn responds to my foul-mouth post about Mark’s post about being “intentionally buggy”:
- It’s a beta product. Last time I remember any browser coming out with a public beta, it’s been used and trashed about just like Safari, except there weren’t people fighting back (for the product.) For some reason a buggy, non-standard browser is being catered to hand over fist, after everything every developer has had to go through for over 5 years.
- “ALL browsers are buggy. This isn’t just like a browser from 1996, it’s like any other browser in 2003.” That’s exactly the problem. Every other browser in 2003 is buggy and sucks, yet Safari is starting from scratch in 2003 and only comes up to par with the current state of every other browser.
- “Kottke’s argument is that it should do more to distinguish itself. Sure, that would be nice. Maybe it’ll happen in the next release. But Kottke’s hotly-disputed suggestions aren’t about fixing bugs, they’re about creating a whole new class of product that doesn’t exist.” I think what Jason and I are saying is their idea is short-sighted. They are the ever-innovative Apple, yet come out — in 2003 — with a run of the mill (at best?) web browser?
Safari is buggy
I can’t believe this kind of conversation is even happening. It’s a fucking buggy, non-standard-compliant browser. You have to treat it like it’s a browser from 1996, since we’re talking about how to hack around it/for it, and about all the mistakes that every other browser made before. How can people accept something like this from any new browser? How about if we just don’t use it, and it just might go away and make Apple realize that it’s bad — hell, even unnecessary? Is there something I’m not seeing here, something I’m missing?
Movielink
Hah! I just put 2 and 2 together, and realized that if I was still at my previous job (as an art director and designer at a big interactive shop) that I would have been working on Movielink.com, the ill-fated attempt by Hollywood to deliver movies over the Internet. Funny! And now that I know the connection, it all makes sense why the back-end production blows real hard.
My previous theory was that it was purposely done shoddily, as a sort of fodder for the movie industry to give a quick “see, we tried, and it didn’t work, thus don’t need to go any further” excuse. Now I’m not so sure…
Pool together money and resources in order to meet someone
Random idea: Create an off-shoot of meetup where a collective of interested people and organizations pool together money and resources in the attempt to meet a pre-determined person, such as a celebrity, comic, or speaker. (For example: A web or publishing crowd who wants to meet with David Weinberger or Cory Doctorow in Des Moines, IA. His known “going rate” for an appearance might be something like $2000, in order to cover expenses and be “worth it”. Individuals interested in hearing him speak, as well as local organizations and chapters who might pitch in larger sums, donate to a pool in the hopes of “hiring” him. The interested party could approve of the meet at any point in the running tally, or wait until the amount reaches a certain dollar amount.)
Aerial imagery matches
I’m not sure why it amazes me, since it is inherent to the technology of aerial imagery, but I find it neat that the yard marker legend matches up exactly to the the size of the field in a football stadium.
A day spent using a screen reader
Wow. Spending a day on the ol’ JAWS screen reader does wonders. It’s amazing what little tidbits of accessibility tweaks you can get, even from browsing sites you’ve built with aspirations of true accessibility.
Some unofficial suggestions: