This is a very cool little Google maps mashup. Walk Score calculates the walkability of an address by locating nearby stores, restaurants, schools, parks, etc. and then tallies the whole thing up into an out-of-100 score.
My Lawrence house: 22 out of 100. My Seattle house: 77 out of 100.
w00t. Visit site »
This is pretty badass. It’s a detailed chart of one person’s relationship over the course of several years. Check it out. Via Rexy (I’d like to see one of these for Rex’s relationships!). Visit site »
This is awesome. From an area code and prefix (i.e. 206-545-xxxx), returns a geo-location. Seems to even work really well with cell phone numbers. Badass. Visit site »
Before anyone completely freaks out that this says “for your iPhone*, the bookmarklets should work fine in most browsers. But they are especially handy on an iPhone. If you’ve got a Jesus phone, check ‘em out. Visit site »
Although I understand the reasoning here (“the iPhone can view full web sites, why make simplified ones for it”?), I can’t help but think anyone who doesn’t appreciate something like Leaflets hasn’t actually tried to use an iPhone over EDGE for serious browsing.
Just because the iPhone has a close-to-desktop-class browser doesn’t make the experience the same as a desktop computer. Consider:
The list goes on. And these don’t even begin to address the fact that EDGE is painfully slow most of the time. The iPhone may be the best browsing experience on a phone to date (by far), but a desktop experience it is not.
My personal feeling is that no site should use user agent sniffing to prevent iPhone (or other mobile device) users from seeing the full, desktop version of a site. Although they probably exist, I don’t know of any sites that do this.
On the other hand, I think it’s perfectly reasonable to provide iPhone (or other mobile device users) with an alternative version of a site that is optimized for that device. Visit site »