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Peter Norvig assembled pretty much everything you need to know before voting into one huge post. Awesome effort. - Christopher Sacca via Bookmarklet

Superb. - Sean McBride

This is AWESOME! - AJ Kohn

From SIGGRAPH 2008. - Simon via Bookmarklet

I am loving this. - Christopher Sacca

I liked the post-it pad as the pat of butter. Very clever end to end. - Dylan Parker

how did he do that with the wiggly eyes slowly sinking to the bottom? - jenna

For the sinking eyes: I'm pretty sure the eyes are attached-to/floating-on some other surface when they're sinking. If you look at the side of the pot you can see the edge of that other surface moving down the side at the same level as the eyes. My best guess is that the water and the eye-surface are both just sheets of clear plastic. It's also possible that one surface is liquid and the other plastic, or maybe even two clear liquids with different densities -- but I think that last one is least likely. - Laurence Gonsalves

My kids loved this video. Anything with candy corn fire is alright in my book. - Jason Shellen

"The Codex Seraphinianus was written and illustrated by Italian graphic designer and architect, Luigi Serafini during the late 1970's. The Codex is a lavishly produced book that purports to be an encyclopedia for an imaginary world in a parallel universe, with copious comments in an incomprehensible language. It is written in a florid script, entirely invented and completely illegible, and illustrated with watercolor paintings." - Jason Wehmhoener via Bookmarklet

Do I file this under "fabulous" or "belonging to the emperor"? - Jim Norris

I actually own one of these. Bought it on ebay a long time ago. - joshua schachter

I don't know what I'd do with this but now I want one. - joshua schachter

There are some beautiful typographic ideas here. - Kevin Fox

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I love smashing mag's posts... they are soo long and full of wonderful examples and free stuff. - Michael Leggett

I tried selling a few myself and had the same freakn issue :( - Kyle Weller

Use Amazon instead of eBay. They seem to actually care more about the "small fish." - darnell

Sounds like it might be a good time to sell short on Ebay, it's bound to catch up soon enough on their bottom line. - Michael Mink

"We here at Mead understand that as students get older and wiser, they need notebooks with increasingly narrow lines." - Tom Stocky

"... increasingly narrow lines." If I get any older, I'll need decreasingly narrow lines. - Robert Konigsberg

*If* you get any older, Robert? - ƃuɐʞ

"The reason the Web worked so well is that...". Meh. I remember a startup founded by an ex-googler where every other thing was "at Google, we did XXX, and that's why Google was so successful, so we're going to do XXX". Not that I disagree with the basic premise, mind. - ⓞnor

(Comment edited.) I see, thanks. Yes, I think Tim Bray's statement is a case of selective-attribution fallacy. You're right: Whether or not it was "the reason" the Web "worked so well", rapid experimentation can help suss out actual success factors. But, for context-dependent or network-effect systems, it's hard to tell: I can't really create five eBays (or five World Wide Webs!) with slightly different parameters to see what succeeds; the original has already won, and only something orthogonal (which may have different success factors) can succeed. So I don't think there is a "light at the end of the tunnel"; some things are hard to know. But well-lit spaces do exist: at this point, we can probably know the success factors for viral Facebook apps. And yes, systems that include large open spaces for experimentation may succeed better -- but (to come full circle) the relative importance of that particular success factor is unclear. - ⓞnor

Also, 5 eBays wouldn't be enough for an experiment anyway, you'd probably need at least 30 or 40 eBays to conduct a good experiment. - j1m