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Thank you for the comments.

I mostly agree with you on the UI, but I wouldn't say endless scroll doesn't make sense in this context. Even though I'm really not a big fan of it, in my mind, I'm going for data that is easily 'discoverable'. I don't see why browsing organized data can't be like fooling around, browsing through pics :) But, I see your point.

The tech is actually butt simple. The client is JQuery (mostly ajax calls) and the server is just PHP and MySQL. I use MySQL in a 'meta' way because it's essentially a database of databases. I think it would be fun to switch to some NoSQL DBMS sometime in the future.

At the moment, I'm just faking the data by hand. I have some ideas for where to pull data from. I just Googled Wikipida lists - thanks I'll definitely check it out :)