CharlieA

This reminds me of a quote attributed to Van Gogh. No idea how accurate it is, but the sentiment is great.

> "If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."

(ofc: Replace PAINT with anything you like!)

I agree with your premise that the spirit of a law shouldn't be violated to send a message but I don't see that it applies here.

For me this doesn't pass the sense test: should a person be able to knowingly, intentionally fake the results of a scientific experiment in order to secure a grant of taxpayer money? No. No more than you should be able to fake the 'results' of your yearly income, say, for the purpose of receiving welfare.

Possibly there could be a meta tag describing which share buttons should be shown on the page--even what the particular share link should be when they're clicked.

Just curious--how or where did you hear about Braintree coming to Australia? And do you know if it's available publicly? It's something I'd love to look at (even with the Westpac account requirement) I can't seem to find anything on it.

Unless my math is off, or I'm misreading the article... that's about 1% of his total shareholding he's sold. How is this a scramble to offload shares? It seems more like a pretty minor (and sensible) liquidity transaction.

Thankyou for the feedback, I'm really sorry about this--I'll go back and check everything. It may be that you were playing songs that are a bit uncommon and it was taking some time to load them, or plain just couldn't find them.

I'll work on the side-bar music queue--you're totally right that clicking the song name and it adding itself to the queue is ridiculous--not at all expected behaviour--more an unforeseen consequence of re-using the same template for all track displays.

Just curious, what was your particular expected behaviour? To jump to that song in the queue and start playing, or to remove the song?

Thanks again for letting me know, I'll triple check this--I was stupid enough to only bother testing Chrome and FireFox on a Mac and just IE9 on Windows. Sorry!!

Thanks! The images are from Last.fm, the music from YouTube :)

Really wanted to focus on the interface so it seemed the logical approach.

Cool concept... I think there's definitely a sweet spot for guys who have no idea what to buy their girlfriend or whatever...

Couple of thoughts, though they're not specifically about the landing page, more general things that popped into my head (bear with me!)

- I'm not sure if many guys will be that into giving a gift every single month just because, but to keep in line with the subscription model you could give an option to send more expensive gifts for just specific months (say their birthday / christmas) and then maybe just one or two other random occasions throughout the year as the "just because" gift.

- I didn't get the gift brother name straight away. I guess what you're going for is "gift BROTHA" cool spelling and all, which is actually a great concept, I'd play on that as soon as you can--hire a designer to create a really cool looking cartoon guy, or something, who is like this suave guy who just gets girls/partners/signficiant-others and is the ultimate wingman for gifts--it's a really great idea to play off, because I think people will really get the concept from that, as well.

- To start have a DEAD-SIMPLE explanation with maybe three steps...maybe just three big images and descriptions like: 1. Tell us about your partner and subscribe 2. We do all the shopping / thinking / work 3. You get all the credit! And you can be really funny/creative with that last one, so go nuts. I think people would dig a quirkier approach, cause it's a great concept.

After that, though there needs to be some more details, like where you get the gifts from, what kinds of gifts you can get and the prices point(s) available... whether you ship to obscure countries like mine (Australia) and ways to put the service on hold (or stop it?) for when you fall out of love... maybe you could switch to getting manly gifts for yourself when you don't have a significant other, just to ease the pain of the heartbreak (or something)

Just some thoughts. Looks cool!

"Microsoft has positions in all the right places."

This.

Microsoft today is still one of the world's biggest companies, with a lot of talented people and considerable inlets into practically every home and office in the developed world. Apple of yesterday grew to eclipse Microsoft in a matter of years--there's no reason Microsoft can't pull off a similar reversal with the right maneuvering of its own considerable resources.

One of the artists in the video was explaining how the bundle works / what it is and said basically that it was available to mac and pc users, then: "and linux...whatever that is..." and then there was something at the end (blooper?) of him mentioning no need for steam codes and that it was "linux compatible" with a confused expression and then getting up and walking away.

It didn't seem like it was insulting linux (or its users) to me, either the artist was reading from a script and really didn't know what linux was, or it was just a mild joke playing off the fact that your average person doesn't. Seemed fairly harmless to me, and linux users are overrepresented in the humble bundle so the context (if it was a joke) is probably appropriate here anyway.