roundtuit

November 28, 2005 1:23 PM

roundtuit A creative commons based site for roundtuits: A roundtuit is an idea that you know can be done, wish would be done, and that you’d just do yourself, if you could ever get a roundtuit. Note those criteria! Give a roundtuit if: * You know it can be done. In fact, you can see exactly how. “Develop transporter technology” or “create a world without war”, despite some merit as ideas, are not roundtuits, and they don’t belong here (sorry). * You wish it would be done. You, and hopefully the multitude, would find it wonderful, or at least slightly useful, if someone ever gets a roundtuit. Feel free to explain why, with as much entertaining detail as you can muster. * You, personally, will never get a roundtuit. Specifically, you won’t mind if someone else gets a roundtuit, even if they give you no credit whatsoever! There shall be no legal battles when someone gets a roundtuit here! By submitting to Roundtuit, you agree to release your submission to to the public domain, using the Creative Commons public domain dedication.
posted by re6smith (10 comments total)

It's a "Jump to Conclusions mat". You see, you have this mat, with different CONCLUSIONS written on it that you could JUMP TO.
posted by horsemuth at 1:56 PM on November 28, 2005

I really liked the the Faith Converter.
posted by Herr Fahrstuhl at 1:57 PM on November 28, 2005

I wonder if these will be considered prior art? What if I submit a killer roundtoit that gets prductized by XYZ corp. I may not be entitled to anything, but will the company be prevented from getting an exclusive patent if I already expressed the idea?
posted by cosmicbandito at 2:04 PM on November 28, 2005

horsemuth, that's the first time I've ever laughed at an Office Space quote. Bravo.
posted by Plutor at 2:05 PM on November 28, 2005 [1 favorite]

On topic, roundtuit is basically Halfbakery in blog form?
posted by Plutor at 2:20 PM on November 28, 2005

Thirdly, I call shenanigans on this post. The author's only other FPP also mentioned roundtuit (and halfbakery, coincidentally). And then, well, there's this post that starts "Check out my new project, roundtuit." in his blog.
posted by Plutor at 2:24 PM on November 28, 2005

See also Idea a day for a similar... um... idea.
posted by stumcg at 2:27 PM on November 28, 2005

Good idea, however the cloying title makesmewanttopuke.
posted by Ohdemah at 2:35 PM on November 28, 2005

Not a bad remix of an idea... it's a shame you squandered the potential exposure with a self link.
posted by cedar at 2:36 PM on November 28, 2005

Didn't this use to be called the lazyweb?
posted by muckster at 2:37 PM on November 28, 2005