A long time ago I created my own music search engine based on Amazon web services. It shows you the covers and links back to Amazon for prices and such. The interface is pretty basic because what you are looking at is actually an OpenSearch RSS feed wrapped in a client side XSLT interface. That is pretty high on the nerd-o-meter. Well, so was Facebook anyway.

My plan was to hook this up to my search system, but I am to lazy, so here it is. If there is too much abuse, I will have to wrap it in a challenge response system.

You must use Firefox or Safari. IE just falls apart and Opera breaks the form.

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Wow.. written by a high school senior. The mask and sprite code is really cool. So I made a Javascript “mashup” in Darkstar FX.

One thing that is strange. My color picker (Colorspace) reports that the green in the Mario tile is #008500 in Firefox but #007300 when I paint the same image in Java 2D or open the file in Photoshop.

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Colorspace is a mashup (that is what the kids call it nowadays) of the Substance LAF initialization code, the Xoetrope color wheel, the Quaqua color picker and Teppefall Darkstar.

I have done a lot of work in the design industry and know the work flow of designers and web developers. I thought that this application might be a snug fit for just that group. Hell, even a girly girl girl might appreciate this one. Yes, I have bitch-slapped myself for saying that. Colorspace should be a helpful tool alongside Photoshop and Dreamweaver.

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My positive personality thinks Microsoft Popfly is interesting and progressive. A fancy version of Yahoo Pipes with a side of Vista Gadgets. My realistic personality thinks this might cause an avalanche of invalid HTML and Javascript with metric tons of vendor lock-in. If Microsoft does not validate the code produced by Popfly users this could be seen as an attempt to kill off Firefox and to create the anticipated Microsoft WWW. A project spearheaded by FrontPage, IIS and Word HTML export.

I hope my positive personality is correct though. We need more interesting stuff online. I am bored.

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