A transmission from the deep south.
Make something you believe in. Make it beautiful, confident, and real. Sweat every detail. If it’s not getting traffic, maybe it wasn’t good enough. Try again.
— Derek Powazek has no time for spammers, evildoers, and opportunists, but he’s goddamned inspiring to the rest of us.
Well, my bad, guys — at 6:59pm CST I asked Wolfram|Alpha to show me all the ways a launch can go wrong.
— Drew Thaler on Twitter in the wake of this.
Have a look at the future of computable online data, built around the Mathematica community. When they use phrases like “system being brought online for the first time” it all sounds a little Skynet, but this might be the most impressive online service of the post-Google era. Now please contact Nicholas Felton about giving it a little polish.
Search Flickr by colour using this database of information extracted from 10 million creative commons images. (via Shaun Inman)
I love doing little things that almost nobody will notice, such as making checkbox labels clickable or shortening my Amazon URLs, because they satisfy me.
— Tumblr’s Marco Arment on perfecting the small details, and the anticlimax of launching Tumblr Search.
The Tumblr folks have released an integrated search for individual tumblelogs. I’ve implemented it here and it works superbly. I use a few lines of JavaScript to convert the standard textfield into an OS X-style search widget for Webkit browsers like Safari.
Here’s the code required to add a search form to your theme:
<form action="/search" method="get">
<input type="text" name="q" value="{SearchQuery}"/>
<input type="submit" value="Search"/>
</form>
Check the Staff post above for some new custom theme tags. A slight hack is required at present to get {block:NoSearchResults} working — check out Jacob’s site where he includes an inline CSS rule to prevent duplicate content when using this tag.
I’ll add search support to the next release of my Vertigo theme.
Contextual search engine and the new workplace of one Jared Christensen.
Combined search of various internet services with graphical results for images and video. Nice robot.
Written and designed by Matthew Buchanan. Colophon. Please give credit. Email
