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I recently bought my first house in the greater Wellington area, so have spent the last four or so months dealing with real estate agents. I think anything to reduce their influence is probably going to be popular. The fixed commission is probably a good move as it makes you look more neutral, unlike agents who wants the highest sale price possible.

From a buyer's point of view the biggest problem with the site is the low number of listings, but I imagine that will grow with time. Best of luck.

Jef Raskin worked on an OS named Archy that also dealt with this problem:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy#Persistence

This reminds me of the boxes from Hell Pizza, which can be turned into a coffin "for your remains":

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=hell+pizza+box+coffin&w=...

I didn't realise most puzzles change, I just answered the Meaning of Life three times and assumed I was cheating.

As for the sickle balance, I did find it, but think having username and balance on the top right works well on HN. Somewhere near the top would be an improvement on having it in the footer.

I didn't have any trivia questions in mind, I just figured the kind of people who like puzzles are probably mostly the same as those who like trivia. Maybe that's too easy to game though.

I registered just to see what the puzzles were. Some thoughts:

I found that you can answer the same puzzle multiple times, which you probably want to change.

For three of the puzzles, if you submit a blank form the website breaks.

You should make it more obvious how many sickles a user has. And why are they sickles anyway?

I don't know if this breaks your idea, but maybe add trivia questions as well as puzzles. That might be helpful when you're struggling to find new puzzles, and if a theme built up it might help build a community.

Another method:

Right-click picture, "Inspect Element"

Firebug expands

Right-click highlighted img element, "Delete Element"

Thanks a lot for the feedback (and to everyone else too). I'm going to try both of those ideas when I get home from work.

For "Modern Nerd" he didn't mention that the N and the D are the same character, putting two words into one, which I think looks very cool.

There's some cool looking stuff there. I had never seen "Light-Transmitting Concrete" before (http://en.red-dot.org/2838+M582dcf2224d.html).

HearWhere placed me in Mt Victoria, Wellington, New Zealand which is slightly off but very close.

Two minor things: 1) "DJ Carlito" came up as "�J CARLITO" and when I clicked on "Peaches" the "About Peaches" section was for a different group. Otherwise I thought it was pretty good.

nytimes.com busts out of the frame.

I highly recommend Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell. The title is not very imaginative but I found it a great place to start before looking at more complicated concepts.

http://www.amazon.com/Basic-Economics-2nd-Ed-Citizens/dp/046...

The article on one page: http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_woznia...

I'm not a game theorist, but wouldn't people just game SpecArena the same way spammers game digg and reddit now? By 'game' I mean automatically rate the competition with low scores and have voting-gangs/bots give their own submissions high scores.

Except it would probably be worse because there would be more at stake.

"Zuckerbucks" was used in a Joy of Tech comic: http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1015.html

Well the secret part is right...

If I really wanted to procrastinate, I would find all the blog posts complaining about lack of unicode, and count how many times a non-ASCII character was used.

I had to laugh when I saw the link to your kratom website. I gave you a point for being so persistent.

Are you going to submit this to Reddit?

I'm busy with my own stuff, but I'm curious about what exactly you will be doing.

Hey that's what I do.

I haven't watched anything since The Sopranos finished. Except Seinfeld DVDs.

The revenue model proposed sounds much the same as yelp.com's.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks this is unnecessary. I agree that the 3D looks quite cool, but doesn't fit with local search/events. When I want to explore my local area in 3D I look for a pair of shoes, not a Java applet.

I thought so too, but apparently not so much:

"As his star waned and box office numbers dwindled, U.S. studios began to demand more control over casting and other major decisions."

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/FilmFest/article/256029

I think the Feedback button on Swivel.com is quite neat.

If it's not fun, do something else.

The way you've phrased that makes it sound as if you're telling people to be irrational.

According to my informal mandarin lessons, "hulu" means "to snore".

My understanding is that Bush is often on holiday. Not good for a startup.