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Was this post not linked to Wired just a few minutes ago?

The "What is Pantastic?" section doesn't really answer the question. Those three points could be applied to almost any decorative item sold online; they don't tell me that you print panoramas that I upload.

I'd also really like some pictures of the finished product.

"But the only way this testing method is superior (at least as explained in the article) is that it automatically adjusts itself."

That's actually very useful for me though. Especially if a site has a lot of tests, or I'm running tests for a multitude of clients. It means I have to babysit the tests less frequently.

According to Guns, Germs and Steel, necessity is not the mother of invention. In fact the opposite is true: inventions appear when the needs of the inventors are already met.

I really recommend the book, it's a great read.

Maybe have it send them a daily email with links and thumbnails of the past 24 puppies.

As a developer I often struggle with the following things:

Picking a color scheme. What colors work well together? Why do they work well together? How do I find good color schemes? Is there a formula or something?

White space. How much should I have? I normally just operate in increments of 5px until I think something looks good. "Looks good" ends up being smaller than other sites when I actually compare though.

Font choices and colors. I always just use arial for body text and I'm fine with that. My headers always look very bland though. What fonts compliment what? Should my headers be darker or lighter than my body text?

Gradients and box shadows. I know they can look nice and I know some people do it well, but whenever I add this kind of stuff to my graphics I think it looks corny.

Those are some things I find frustrating when designing.

Pretty cool. I didn't really get it at first and was about to leave before I saw the "Watch a Video" link at the bottom. I'd probably make that stand out a bit more.

Probably this one, which I use for testing

    function becho($value, $key = NULL)
    {
        echo '<br /><span style="background: #FFFFFF; color: #000000;">' . (NULL != $key ? $key . ' = ' : '') . $value . '</span>';
    }

    function s($num)
    {
         return $num == 1 ? '' : 's';
    }

    echo 'Showing ' . $results . ' result' . s($results) . '.';

No. The use of a colon instead of a comma probably added to the confusion.

Consider putting a down arrow next to "last.fm" to show that it's a dropdown option. I had no idea until I read this comment.

Cool stuff. How are you grabbing the words? Did you download a dictionary?

When I submitted my URL I got "constituent", which seems unnecessarily long. You should consider having a list of short adjectives and a list of short words, preferably with both being one syllable. Then you grab one from each and you get short URLs that are still easy to remember like "redbear" or "fastbulb". The best part about this idea is that it reminds me of the monster names in Diablo 2.

I built it myself using CodeIgniter.

I use it to hear about when people mention the Vagina Game. This normally happens on blogs and message boards so it's easy for me to swoop in and comment with a "I made a website for this".

Cool stuff. How are you getting the data on new books? Do you have a cron job that uses Amazon's API to search for new books? I'm not really familiar with their API so I'm not sure if that makes sense.

Are the categories grabbed from Amazon too?

Request: include a title attribute on links that has the full article title. That way when something gets shortened and has the ellipsis at the end I can just hover over the link to read the whole thing.

I'd like to have some context for what he's saying, what's wrong with that?

Could someone explain what jacquesm means by this?

Then what? Posted comments pointing to ThatHigh.com I'm guessing. Did you just put the link or did you say something like "Sounds like something from thathigh.com"? Did they eventually get removed as spam?

Go ahead, link to your event. You've got me curious and you know you want to.

http://vaginagame.com

I know it's stupid but I can't stop working on it. Apparently my 7 year old mind finds it hilarious.

I'd change this text: "Hackathonia is about bringing bright, motivated people together to build amazing apps in competitive yet collaborative, team-based competitions known as "Hackathons"."

I'd put something like:

"Hackathonia is a great way to find "Hackathons" near you. Hackathons bring bright, motivated people together to build amazing apps in competitive yet collaborative, team-based competitions."

That way you get to the meat of what you do faster.

There was a lot of grumbling about the $40 shipping charge to Canada too. I probably would've bought one if the shipping charge didn't more than double my total.

You should post here once you do this and tell us how it goes. I'd be very interested to see how much you increase your revenue by.

That's pretty funny stuff.

Just a small quip: There's a tiny bit of side scrolling for me . I'm running 1024x768. If you change the margin on your #wrap div to margin: -10px auto 0 auto; it'll center it.

This site may interest you guys: http://www.abtests.com/

I'm pretty lost when it comes to statistics. Are you talking about not having enough data to make a conclusion, or something else?

That depends on what you're trying to promote. Your best bet is to find blogs ready by people who would use your service.

For example if you wanted to launch a site that listed the best places to rock climb, then you'd want to do some guest posts on popular rock climbing blogs.

Thanks for that! Do you have any idea what scream this is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3WimCPUkQY

It's from the Terran Academy in StarCraft, and I've heard it in other places but don't know the name of it.

The home page doesn't really tell me what it does. It's all marketing style corporate speak that I don't really understand.

You should really change your tagline to be more of a description of your service than a marketing phrase. "Since cold leads don't fit in the microwave" tells me nothing about your service.

"LeadNuke is the missing link in your existing sales pipeline; it helps you kick-start the sales process."

That doesn't really tell me anything either.

"LeadNuke is a streamlined process that helps you find, track, and follow-through with news articles, blog posts, and RSS feeds from your industry, turning them into meaningful sales leads. LeadNuke helps you generate qualified leads and initiate a dialog with prospects who actually need your product or service."

This also doesn't really tell me much.

I looked down your home page further and I'm guessing this is some sort of email marketing service. You should definitely use the word email in your descriptions so people know that's what it is.

Through folk etymology, it has been claimed that André-Marie Ampère used the symbol in his widely read publications, and that people began calling the new shape "Ampere's and". [3]