Cool Site Of The Day - Page 14

elSicomoro · 11-09-2002, 02:41 PM

Interesting stuff hermit. Keep at it.

Hopefully you will be kind enough to visit my own blog.

Nic Name · 11-10-2002, 04:03 PM

moonthewhitehouse.com

Is this what Gore had in mind when he invented the Internet?

MaggieL · 11-12-2002, 12:34 PM

The Prime Number Shitting Bear

Nic Name · 11-17-2002, 03:30 PM

http://www.ghostzilla.com/

El Phantazmo · 11-20-2002, 09:35 AM

EVILCLOWN
pee mail
Greatest wallpaper and image site out there.
Redmeat -funny comic
Gluemeat Excellent Movie site
Push a guy down the stairs for points! What more do you want?

Ok I'm done for now. Enjoy, and this is a pretty cool site BTW, I'll be back!

El Phantazmo · 11-20-2002, 11:29 AM

Forgot another cool one. Flashface.

MaggieL · 11-20-2002, 11:42 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Nic Name
http://www.ghostzilla.com/

Yeah, saw that one on /. Pretty cool if you're forced to run Windows at work, which a lot of people are.

You OSX folks who can't run gKrellm (actually, maybe you *can* run gKrellem if you install X, I dunno) might be interested in iPulse , it's freeware and compresses a mulitidimesional picture of your system state into only a tiny bit or real estate on the screen.

Nic Name · 11-25-2002, 08:49 AM

www.canadiantire.ca

Quote:

For a company whose mascot is a penny-pinching Scotsman, Canadian Tire Corp. Ltd. certainly spared no expense when it came to building its e-commerce Web site. Surely Sandy McTire is tearing out his bushy white hair over the more than $28 million the chain has spent developing canadiantire.ca.

That's only US$17,755,230.

OK, they can afford it, but did this company get screwed, or what?!!!

That's what we call eekommerce.

Undertoad · 11-25-2002, 10:56 AM

Re Canadian Tire: after 6 years in the biz I have seen worse atrocities done more expensively, most notably the USPS site circa 1998. But in 2002 we're supposed to be PAST this kind of problem.

Looks like a committee design combined with a "religious" IT decision to make the entire thing jsp. Add a pinch of clueless demanding upper management. And I bet the whole thing sat around for a while, as various VPs put their two cents in. "My Canadian Tire"? That's so 2000.

Nic Name · 11-25-2002, 11:12 AM

Canadian Tire officially not 'Crappy'

The World Intellectual Property Organization has ruled that Canadian Tire Corporation has no legal right to control "crappytire.com" -- the Internet domain name registered to Mick McFadden of London, Ontario.

In its March 16, 2001 complaint to WIPO, Canadian Tire claimed that it is "frequently colloquially referred to or known as 'Crappy Tire' by the public." The corporation argued that its trademarks should be extended to include the phrase because its stores are "closely associated" with the slang expression. It also charged that McFadden used his site "to make rude, untrue and libellous statements about Canadian Tire."

The corporation's claim hinged on the idea that crappytire.com is "confusingly similar" to its trademarks. Canadian Tire noted that Internet searches for "Canadian crappy tire" result in many references to the corporation.

McFadden's response to Canadian Tire's complaint argued that the corporation has not trademarked the offending phrase. "Since when is the word 'Canadian' interchangeable with or similar to 'crappy'?" he asked.

Fun facts from the Canadian Tire WIPO complaint:
90% of adult Canadians shop at Canadian Tire at least twice each year.
40% of adult Canadians shop there each week.
85% of the Canadian population lives within a 15 minute drive of a Canadian Tire store.

MaggieL · 11-25-2002, 11:27 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Undertoad
Looks like a committee design combined with a "religious" IT decision to make the entire thing jsp.

Only the truly devout would think using JSP would rescue a bad design. I very much doubt that the pricetag is a result of using JSP. True, there's probably a boatload of licence cost due to using EJB on Weblogic....but these guys probably have enough volume to justify an EJB approach....which has very little to do with Java Server Pages, of course.

Of course,. it *could* have been executed in ASP or .NET...then it would be a *proprietary* version of the same design, and immune to being ported to a more economical server base; if the archetects of this site have resisted using Weblogic-proprietary APIs, they can migrate pretty easily to another app server, or even mix app servers from different providers to carry this sites workload. The coolness of this would be the ability to examine which app server platform gives them the best performance on a live workload.

At least it continues to work if you refuse cookies. Many ASP-based shopping carts don't.

The site itself doesn't really look to me like a very *bad* design, although it does have that "circus poster" feel that most big ecommerce sites have Every department in the company is entitled a slice of the incoming eyeballs. They tell the stockholders that this is "synergies" and "economies of scale". ;-)

Speaking of religion, one wonders how much of the 17 mil went to making the site bilingual.

Nic Name · 11-26-2002, 06:04 AM

GovEngine

perth · 11-28-2002, 01:56 PM

via metafiler...

http://www.ghosttowngallery.com/

this just rocks. pictures of ghost towns in various states. some of them have information, history and whatnot. check out the page for animas, colorado. good stuff.

~james

MaggieL · 11-30-2002, 02:02 PM

http://pelit.dnainternet.net/pelihalli/trials/

Fun Java game. Up-arrow accelerates, down arrow brake. Left/right arrow lean back/forward.

MaggieL · 12-01-2002, 05:01 PM

http://gapingvoid.com
by hugh macleod
"cartoons drawn on the back of business cards"
Life in New York...makes me glad I don't live there.

I'm not responsible if the sample cartoon reminds you of anyone.

11-10-2002, 04:03 PM	#197
Nic Name retired Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 1,930	moonthewhitehouse.com Is this what Gore had in mind when he invented the Internet? Last edited by Nic Name; 11-10-2002 at 05:00 PM.

11-12-2002, 12:34 PM	#198
MaggieL in the Hour of Scampering Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia) Posts: 4,060	The Prime Number Shitting Bear __________________ "Neither can his Mind be thought to be in Tune,whose words do jarre; nor his reason In frame, whose sentence is preposterous..."

11-25-2002, 11:12 AM	#205
Nic Name retired Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 1,930	Crappy Tire Canadian Tire officially not 'Crappy' The World Intellectual Property Organization has ruled that Canadian Tire Corporation has no legal right to control "crappytire.com" -- the Internet domain name registered to Mick McFadden of London, Ontario. In its March 16, 2001 complaint to WIPO, Canadian Tire claimed that it is "frequently colloquially referred to or known as 'Crappy Tire' by the public." The corporation argued that its trademarks should be extended to include the phrase because its stores are "closely associated" with the slang expression. It also charged that McFadden used his site "to make rude, untrue and libellous statements about Canadian Tire." The corporation's claim hinged on the idea that crappytire.com is "confusingly similar" to its trademarks. Canadian Tire noted that Internet searches for "Canadian crappy tire" result in many references to the corporation. McFadden's response to Canadian Tire's complaint argued that the corporation has not trademarked the offending phrase. "Since when is the word 'Canadian' interchangeable with or similar to 'crappy'?" he asked. Fun facts from the Canadian Tire WIPO complaint: 90% of adult Canadians shop at Canadian Tire at least twice each year. 40% of adult Canadians shop there each week. 85% of the Canadian population lives within a 15 minute drive of a Canadian Tire store.

11-30-2002, 02:02 PM	#209
MaggieL in the Hour of Scampering Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia) Posts: 4,060	http://pelit.dnainternet.net/pelihalli/trials/ Fun Java game. Up-arrow accelerates, down arrow brake. Left/right arrow lean back/forward. __________________ "Neither can his Mind be thought to be in Tune,whose words do jarre; nor his reason In frame, whose sentence is preposterous..."

12-01-2002, 05:01 PM	#210
MaggieL in the Hour of Scampering Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia) Posts: 4,060	http://gapingvoid.com by hugh macleod "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards" Life in New York...makes me glad I don't live there. I'm not responsible if the sample cartoon reminds you of anyone. Attached Images __________________ "Neither can his Mind be thought to be in Tune,whose words do jarre; nor his reason In frame, whose sentence is preposterous..."

11-09-2002, 02:41 PM	#196
elSicomoro Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 12,486	Interesting stuff hermit. Keep at it. Hopefully you will be kind enough to visit my own blog.

11-17-2002, 03:30 PM	#199
Nic Name retired Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 1,930	http://www.ghostzilla.com/

11-20-2002, 09:35 AM	#200
El Phantazmo Person Who Has Posted Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 2	EVILCLOWN pee mail Greatest wallpaper and image site out there. Redmeat -funny comic Gluemeat Excellent Movie site Push a guy down the stairs for points! What more do you want? Ok I'm done for now. Enjoy, and this is a pretty cool site BTW, I'll be back!

11-20-2002, 11:29 AM	#201
El Phantazmo Person Who Has Posted Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 2	Forgot another cool one. Flashface.

11-25-2002, 10:56 AM	#204
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Re Canadian Tire: after 6 years in the biz I have seen worse atrocities done more expensively, most notably the USPS site circa 1998. But in 2002 we're supposed to be PAST this kind of problem. Looks like a committee design combined with a "religious" IT decision to make the entire thing jsp. Add a pinch of clueless demanding upper management. And I bet the whole thing sat around for a while, as various VPs put their two cents in. "My Canadian Tire"? That's so 2000.

11-26-2002, 06:04 AM	#207
Nic Name retired Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 1,930	GovEngine

11-28-2002, 01:56 PM	#208
perth Strong Silent Type Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Fort Collins, CO Posts: 1,949	via metafiler... http://www.ghosttowngallery.com/ this just rocks. pictures of ghost towns in various states. some of them have information, history and whatnot. check out the page for animas, colorado. good stuff. ~james

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