Websites
Good news, everyone! Moneygement is finally good enough to provide some basic functionality, and thus I have opened it up for everyone to use.
As you have perhaps noticed, I recently installed a new Drupal theme, Nonzero. It is all fine and dandy, but the right sidebar was moving to the left as the text in it grew, and it started to run over the text in the posts, making the layout look bad (particularly in Opera, which I use).
People (especially Diggers, I think) like to compare Digg and Slashdot in various areas (and often say how one will kill the other). This comparison has always struck me as baseless, but I've never seen anyone saying anything about it (yes, that may be because I haven't looked :P), so this is what I think: Digg and Slashdot are two very different beasts, and comparing one to the other is very much like comparing apples to boobs. Sure, both may be firm and round, but, well, it's just sick. Plus, babies can't eat apples.
- Digg posts items on the main page by having its users vote on them, effectively using members as editors. Slashdot uses hired editors who have more stringent submission criteria. Because of this, Digg is more of a "cool links of the day" site than a news site. Personally, I like that, since I get my news along with the occasional cool flash game to waste half an hour on. This fact also means that digg has many more stories, typically 15-20 on the homepage per day (or a few hundreds, if you like to view everything everyone submits), whereas Slashdot has about 7.
When I visited Digg today I came upon this site, called Allofmp3. From it you can buy songs totally legally for as little as $0.02 per megabyte. They even have this cool service that encodes the files to whatever format you want (I recommend OGG Vorbis at Q6), so you end up paying about $3 for a whole CD (and not old ones or anything, they have almost everything).
A few days ago I stumbled upon this great website called Moviepig. In short, it will tell you if you're going to like a movie or not. You tell it a list of movies you have seen in order of preference (most liked to least liked) and then you ask it how much you're going to like a movie you haven't seen. It uses collaborative filtering to search for other people with the same tastes as you and tells you how much they liked the movie. It's quite handy, and it beats asking all your friends and then coming up with nothing because they have different tastes than you or re
