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SlickSpeed: benchmark test suite that compares the various Javascript frameworks. I really like how they did it even though MooTools came in third. Maybe the head in Subversion blasts the others out of the park and this is a marketing ploy. My, I’m cynical, aren’t I? {via}
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Ball: this neat, simple game provided conclusive proof that I am an uncoordinated, robotic oaf.
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Bowser’s Minions: addresses all the underlying arbitrariness of the Super Mario Brothers franchise. The ending really ties it all together. {via}
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Delicious: I miss del.icio.us and the geeky undesign of the previous version but I have to say that the individual’s page is better. And at least I still have my extension—it never changes up on me. *sniff*
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Super Mario Brothers Tribute in 20 Lines of Javascript: the lines are a little long, but I’ll concede them the point.
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Fake Twitter Status: now that’s some choice parody right there. {via}
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Unicode Graphic Domains: neat. I forgot that their were dingbats in Unicode. D’oh.
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Watching the Growth of Walmart Across America: this is a really neat visualization. {via}
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Totem Destroyer: excellent little Flash game. I played until I beat it and wished there were more levels. {via}
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ExpressionEngine v2.0 Sneak Preview: mmmmm, CMS-y.
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Sydney, Australia to Los Angeles, California: Lost would have been very different using these directions. (And what’s with the Washington detour?)
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Field Guide to Firefox 3: I’ve been using the release candidates and 3 is pretty different from previous versions. And it is officially released on June 17th so get yourself prepared for the upcoming changes now.
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Google Maps Street View Scene: boy I hope that’s not a real gun!
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Favrd: Twitter API service that shows you tweets that have been favorited. Gah, neologism overload!
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Instant Rimshot: this is terribly useful!
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Down for Everyone or Just Me?: this is a very useful service—it validates that some site is having problems and it’s not just your pathetic computer. {via}
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Password Checker: nice little implementation from Microsoft. Happy to say that my password algorithm was always green.
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The Meme Obfuscation Machine: I just whipped this up. It’s an easy way to mask a meme or prank. And I think the only cost for me is domain registration since it uses very little bandwidth.
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Animator vs. Animation - The Game: a more interactive version of those awesome videos I’ve covered before.
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The Budget Graph - A Visual Guide to Your Taxes: the Flash version of the poster is really kewl.
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Cursor * 10: fun little Flash game. I got to Level 11 at best. I’m not sure how one could get to Level 16 but I’m no gamer. {via}
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Wordpress.com: what’s with the falling snow? I’ve seen this on a few sites this winter. Is it retro 2003 or something? I look forward to letters that follow the cursor around the screen.
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Factory Balls: I could only get to Level 9 once I figured out how to play it. (Incidentally, you drag a ball onto one of the tools or through a succession of tools until you get it to match the one on the box. Once it matches, you complete the level.) {via}
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Handbell Hero: guitars are so tired, handbells are wired.
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(1) We Love Holiday Sweaters: design your own Christmas sweater. There is no limit to its garishness. Unfortunately, there’s no way to save or share your creation.
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Amazon SimpleDB: I am in awe of Amazon. It would be incredible if in a decade Amazon’s revenue primarily does not come from ecommerce. The other amazing thing is that applications built on their EC2, S3, and now SDB platforms really don’t have anywhere else to go; I wonder if that’ll result in a backlash eventually.
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Rotten Neighbor: look for the crazies before you move into a house. Of course, without names, it’s impossible to know if the reports are current. {via}
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Google Chart API: that is so cool. 50K queries per day seems like a reasonable amount.
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Comet Daily: ooo, now this is interesting. It’s the yang to Ajax’s yin in that it pushes server-side events up to client-side Javascript. And it’s surprisingly mature—surprisingly in that I’d never heard about it until Simon Willison’s entry.
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Universal Digital Library: 1.5 million volumes digitized by Carnegie-Mellon. My favorite grammar book is in there!
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Google Maps for Mobile - My Location: this new feature uses cell phone towers to discern your 10-20. From tests at work and home, I’d say that cell phone towers must disclose their ZIP codes because that seems to be as close as it’s getting for me.
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NPR - Intelligence Squared: damn, that looks like some seriously hott debate! There’s also a limey version but they’ve got some weird accents and I’m not sure that it’s even English.
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Kiddie Records Weekly: awesome children’s music and recordings from the 40s and 50s. {via}
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VisuWords: ho hum. This is so much more useful than say a dictionary or thesaurus.
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Crabb’s English Synonymes: I have this edition of the book and I love it. It’s not a thesaurus: it’s a way to see the nuances and gradations of a particular word’s synonyms.
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Happy Median: this is a rockin’ animated GIF! {via}
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Pumpkin Carving: slightly amusing.
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PicUrls: the best pictures of the social bookmarking sites. Very useful.
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Library Arcade: library-themed online Flash games. And boy are they as fun as you’d expect. The “I’ll Get It” isn’t too shabby, I guess.
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ZIP Skinny: cool demographic site that lets you compare ZIP codes to neighboring ZIP codes.
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Weird Converter: useful site if you ever wanted to convert between Jennifer Anistons and Tom Cruises (1 Aniston = 0.55 Cruise) or between Oregon Trails and flaccid penises (1 to 3,3792,000, for your edification).
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Moan My IP: uhh. NSFW.
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Statetris: Tetris-like game using the United States as the pieces. Not nearly as hard as I’d like.
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(1) University of Illinois Digitized Book of the Week: gorgeous scans of old books. {via}
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How’s My Parking?: I parked it just fine every time!
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Counterfeit MINI - Tough Love: I just can’t stop slapping. Help me!
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Google Translate Word Find: nice dictionary-type service. Decidedly better than the other ones I’ve seen even if its language options are more limited. {via}
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Web Analytics Demystified: I found this screencast to be a very useful primer on Google Analytics.
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FloorPlanner.com: very slick Web application for doing floor plans. The free version seems quite adequate for normal users. {via}
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LOLcat Builder: simply awesome! Roll your own.
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Rome Reborn: a digital model of ancient Rome circa 320 AD. All tastefully arranged in a wholly Flash-based site that seems utterly at odds in an academic setting. Let’s hope their “studies” about how to make it available on the Internet come to fruition soon!
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Safari for Windows: now you Windows people can enjoy the superior font rendering of the Mac for yourselves. Well, those that haven’t been eyewashed by ClearType.
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Jo’s Plumbing: this has got to be one of the more surreal versions of that meme that I’ve ever come across. Also, crummy Flash. {via}
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Street Viewr: wow, this are some great finds on Google’s Street View! I love this picture of the Google Van speeding.
[UPDATE (6/4/2007): Ooo, more.]
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Search Without Boundaries: wow! Wow. I feel like another page has turned for Google today.
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Parody Motivator Generator: roll your own Demotivators! This is so awesome; they simply must make a way to print these after you’ve created them. {via}
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Google Experimental Labs: wow, this is some serious stuff. I guess this is the interim step before Google Labs.
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Papercars.net: yes, there’s a MINI available!
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Encyclopedia of Life: attempting to catalog all the known species of Earth. The demonstration pages for polar bears (novice, historical, and expert) look stellar.
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Google AutoPager: awesome Greasemonkey user script that gets the next page of Google results as you scroll. Lovely! {via}
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Hipster Cards: some nice, non-hokey ecards.
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The Googleplex: Google Maps just got a whole lot more Google Earth-y. This is insanely cool! And anyone can do it! {via}
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Google Maps - Sleep Inn & Suites: word of advice to hotel operators: you should probably use a picture of a guest room without an armed soldier poised with gun drawn. IANAHO, so take it with a grain of salt. {via}
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Driving Directions from Stanford, California to Stockholm, Sweden: item number 33 seems to be the tricky part.
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Listen to a Movie: audio of movies and TV shows for those of us who have to work. Get it while it still exists, for I think it will be short-lived.
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The Passenger: little Flash game about driving the streets of Paris in a MINI. {via}
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Jungle Crazy: front to Amazon.com that features items that are 70% or more off the MSRP. Wicked cool!
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The Stereoscopic Skin Clinic: this is really freaking me out. {via}
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Paper Pilot: I can’t quite get the hang of the proper balance between angle and power. Maybe a few more hours will fix that. {via}
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(3) Google Maps: herd of camels?
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Almanac of American Wealth: neat little way to see where the money is. {via}
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CheddarVision: webcam pointed at some cheddar cheese. Beats
