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Was this post not linked to Wired just a few minutes ago?

The "What is Pantastic?" section doesn't really answer the question. Those three points could be applied to almost any decorative item sold online; they don't tell me that you print panoramas that I upload.

I'd also really like some pictures of the finished product.

"But the only way this testing method is superior (at least as explained in the article) is that it automatically adjusts itself."

That's actually very useful for me though. Especially if a site has a lot of tests, or I'm running tests for a multitude of clients. It means I have to babysit the tests less frequently.

According to Guns, Germs and Steel, necessity is not the mother of invention. In fact the opposite is true: inventions appear when the needs of the inventors are already met.

I really recommend the book, it's a great read.

Maybe have it send them a daily email with links and thumbnails of the past 24 puppies.

As a developer I often struggle with the following things:

Picking a color scheme. What colors work well together? Why do they work well together? How do I find good color schemes? Is there a formula or something?

White space. How much should I have? I normally just operate in increments of 5px until I think something looks good. "Looks good" ends up being smaller than other sites when I actually compare though.

Font choices and colors. I always just use arial for body text and I'm fine with that. My headers always look very bland though. What fonts compliment what? Should my headers be darker or lighter than my body text?

Gradients and box shadows. I know they can look nice and I know some people do it well, but whenever I add this kind of stuff to my graphics I think it looks corny.

Those are some things I find frustrating when designing.

Pretty cool. I didn't really get it at first and was about to leave before I saw the "Watch a Video" link at the bottom. I'd probably make that stand out a bit more.

Probably this one, which I use for testing

    function becho($value, $key = NULL)
    {
        echo '<br /><span style="background: #FFFFFF; color: #000000;">' . (NULL != $key ? $key . ' = ' : '') . $value . '</span>';
    }

I also like this one

    function s($num)
    {
         return $num == 1 ? '' : 's';
    }

Which I use like

    echo 'Showing ' . $results . ' result' . s($results) . '.';

No. The use of a colon instead of a comma probably added to the confusion.

Consider putting a down arrow next to "last.fm" to show that it's a dropdown option. I had no idea until I read this comment.

Cool stuff. How are you grabbing the words? Did you download a dictionary?

When I submitted my URL I got "constituent", which seems unnecessarily long. You should consider having a list of short adjectives and a list of short words, preferably with both being one syllable. Then you grab one from each and you get short URLs that are still easy to remember like "redbear" or "fastbulb". The best part about this idea is that it reminds me of the monster names in Diablo 2.

I built it myself using CodeIgniter.

I use it to hear about when people mention the Vagina Game. This normally happens on blogs and message boards so it's easy for me to swoop in and comment with a "I made a website for this".