Chext is a site that enables the user to enter transactions and track their bank balance via SMS. People sharing a bank account can also get updates when money is spent from the account by the other person.
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posted by reenum
on Sep 19, 2011 -
30 comments
Most of us know and love
Dailylit. But, if you want to have more current book snippets emailed to you every day, you can upload your own ebooks to
Dripread.
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posted by reenum
on Jul 3, 2011 -
8 comments
Metaskim: A news aggregator that cuts out a lot of the fat and gives you relevant local and national news.
posted by reenum
on Jun 16, 2011 -
24 comments
TheFix.com is a new site targeting the more than 40 million Americans who are recovering from drug and/or alcohol addiction. It features Ask-An-Expert
videos, news, editorials and thorough
reviews of rehab facilities based on Zagat's system.
Founded by Maer Roshan, one of the founders of Radar Magazine.
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posted by zarq
on Apr 7, 2011 -
36 comments
Figment.com is a new, free community and platform for young people to share their fiction writing, "connect with other readers and discover new stories and authors. Users are invited to write novels, short stories and poems,
collaborate with other writers and give and receive feedback on the work posted on the site." (
Via)
posted by zarq
on Dec 5, 2010 -
19 comments
RecycledMovieCostumes.com A site of screencaps and photos tracking outfits that show up in different movies. So sometimes you're watching a movie and you say "that actor looks familiar." This is a collection of photos and comparisons for the times you've thought "that
outfit looks familiar."
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posted by SaharaRose
on Oct 9, 2010 -
15 comments
Your Old Crap Website -
This blog is to celebrate the time when web design wasn’t limited by web standards and convention, and when the office geek was given full reign to set up the website on his own since the bosses probably couldn’t see the point in having one.
posted by Artw
on Apr 24, 2010 -
45 comments
"...and as we have an endless abundance of MP3’s (we fucked up and made too many of them), anything you take from the library is yours to keep. You will not be notified if you fail to return something on time, and you will not lose your library privileges if you share selections with friends."
In 2003,
Conor Oberst (wiki) started the independent record label
Team Love (youtube). Offering the latest in the free music revolution, Team Love has established the
Team Love Library, offering up all of their albums for free.
posted by Lutoslawski
on Dec 12, 2008 -
14 comments
If burying Old Blue or Fluffy in the backyard just doesn't seem good enough, don't worry, for anywhere between $6,000 and $128,000, you can have them
mummified old school style. Or if having to leave them on display in the living room while you leave the house seems just too hard, you could always
wear them. Or of course you could always just have them
turned into diamonds.
posted by Lutoslawski
on Mar 20, 2008 -
32 comments
Why stop at one great undiscovered site when you can have 100? PC Magazine released its top 100 undiscovered websites for 2007 which you can view as a
slideshow or
download as bookmarks. There are some cool new sites that would be postworthy in themselves, such as:
Footnote, which has digitized millions of national archive documents;
WebsiteGrader, which automatically tells you how good your website is (MeFi gets a 98%);
Rentometer, which compares your rent to others in the neighborhood; and
Yapta, which lets you take advantage of airline policies that refund part of your ticket when prices drop. Many others have been covered on the blue, but are still worth revisiting such as
OldVersions.com for finding software before the bloat, the video how-to site
VideoJug, and
Zamzar for conversion between file formats. If you can't get enough, check out the
100 classic websites.
posted by blahblahblah
on Aug 30, 2007 -
22 comments
Excellent flash photo The things that can be done with Flash. Amazing. Very slowly run your mouse over the entire photo and see the city from dawn to dusk to the city lit up at night. I like. :) ]It amazes me about what some people choose to complain about.]
posted by rasmusnor
on May 10, 2007 -
57 comments
Remember Third Voice, the
controversial browser plug-in that let you add public notes to any website? Enough webmasters complained and it was
shut down in 2001, after only two years in operation. Maybe attitudes have changed, because the folks at
Trailfire are trying this idea again. Available for
Firefox or
IE.
posted by Who_Am_I
on Nov 14, 2006 -
43 comments
Finding Species is an organization that integrates science, photography, and design to create standardized methods of photo-documenting
plants and
animals, for use in print and web field guides, educational exhibits, and conservation campaigns.
posted by owhydididoit
on Nov 9, 2006 -
2 comments
The
Mineralogy Database contains 4,442 individual mineral species descriptions with links and a
comprehensive image library. Recent additions to the image library include
barite,
zinkenite/stannite, and
zanazziite/kosnerite. There's also a
clickable periodic table, that lets you pick an element and see information about minerals that contain it. Learn about
crystal forms with a fun little java applet. Search for minerals by
cleavage,
color,
diaphaniety,
habits,
hardness, and more.
posted by owhydididoit
on Sep 1, 2006 -
9 comments
What the world creates by hand. The
sons of a Peace Corps member, Roberto and Andy Milk had a lifelong
interest in artisans in developing countries. They teamed up with Armenia
Nercessian, a UN human-rights officer, to create Novica.com, an online
marketplace that sells the work of more than 10,000 craftspeople. While
Novica operates chiefly in association with National Geographic,
NPR also
helps to promote them.
posted by owhydididoit
on Aug 25, 2006 -
14 comments
Scott Petersen, aka
"reptileman", opens his
Serpentarium to visitors 365 days a year.
Have a look at some of his snakes, lizards, invertebrates,
crocodilians, and turtles,
and
kids
blythely
handling
them.
reptileman recommends that you also visit
Zach's
Lizard Land, where you can meet
Jerky,
Buddy, and
Cola, all of whom are lizards.
posted by owhydididoit
on Aug 20, 2006 -
8 comments
Sad -- such a sweet-looking kid, the smile on the face of a future suicide.
Sad -- "If she only knew then how things would turn out…"
Sad -- "I chose to kill her."
Sad -- "You could see her personality break through the coma." Life is
dukkha, said the Buddha -- a Pali term that means something like "suffering" or "the incapability of satisfaction." (Or as Mick Jagger put it, "I can't get no...")
Here's the tangible evidence.
posted by digaman
on May 3, 2006 -
39 comments
Overgrow.com --one of the largest and most comprehensive sites written by and for cannabis growers about
cannabis cultivation, complete with user forums and immense photo galleries--along with Heaven's Stairway Seeds (hempqc.com), Cannabisworld.com, and Eurohemp.com have all been
shut down, their
owners arrested in Canada, and the servers seized. The story hasn't yet made the Canadian news, but it raises many questions about free speech online.
posted by fandango_matt
on Feb 5, 2006 -
45 comments
