I have added icons for iPhone and iPod Touch users. Now if you are on this site and click the add to home screen button, you will get a snappy little icon for this site rather than a thumbnail of the page itself. I know how many of you want to be able to access all of the exciting information here at a moment’s (moments? Does the moment belong to the notice? I suppose it must since you wouldn’t say moments notice since that would be more like the opposite of what you meant. Still looks goofy. I’m not convinced one way or the other.) notice.

You will also get little icons for the Educated in the West, Somerset’s Mom, and Pimpgnosis sites, so enjoy. Other sites in the AllGuinness universe to come.

Have you ever looked at the movie ranking on sites like imdb, and thought to yourself, “that is so fucked up and in stupid order, that I think a trained monkey could come up with a better list”? Well I have.

It bothered me enough that I decided to make my very own listing dingus for this website. I have now done this. It is in pretty good shape already, though there are a couple of things I would add if I wanted it to be perfect. Currently you can add lists on any topic, and create lists on already existing topics. Your lists remain your own, and also get compiled into a general user list that shows all of the items in all lists in the category, along with the counts of how often they appear. In addition to these two lists there is one list for the Master Rater. This list is the right list for that category, and you can compare your list to it. Each list item may contain a name, description, and external link. This link is available next to the item name. The items can be reordered in the list (though this is an area that needs to have additional options because moving one at a time could be annoying in long lists). There is also an info page for each item that includes comments about that item. The first person to add an item in a category gets to enter the description and the link. All others will have to settle for comments.

I like this little thing, but like many of the silly things I do there is little demand for such an application. Additionally, it would only really be cool if about 1000 people were using it. Since I have just the one reader this could be hard. It is up to you. You must go and tell 1000 people to use this thing so I can see it really work.

You can find it at the Master Rater section of the Gameboard area, whatever the hell all that means. You will, of course have to register and sign in if you want to check it out, but that is a pretty painless process.

As usual, I will be surprised if anyone checks it out other than myself.

The call has gone out for something really useless, and I am not one to ignore it.

I sometimes play a little Civilization 4, and was thinking about maps and stuff, so I decided to create a little script to create a random map (refresh to see it in action). It doesn’t do anything or serve any real purpose, but it could thoeoretically be put into use for my game, that will be done in five or six years. Seven max. I’m really waiting to finish the animation now, and that will take a long time, but I think the game itself can be made ready quickly after that.

Speaking of useless things, has anyone seen my calendar? It is pretty neat, but certainly not as good as so many that are out there. I think it is actually useable no, though you will need to register as a user to store calendar items in it. There are a couple of other features that I want to add to it, but it is pretty cool the way it is. If you are looking for a real calendar, I’d go elsewhere, but this one is fun for screwing around.

I think the forum in that section works as well. None of this stuff has any advantage over other examples, except that I coded all of these with my own tiny brain.

I love cottage cheese.

–Update–

In a fit of lunacy, I made it mark out the coastline with graphic element. Goofy, and fun!

I was just looking through my website at all of the silly crap that is lying around. It is something I like to do periodically. Here is a partial list of what I have found lurking about. Most of it is entirely useless and just silly, but it does show a developmental process. Compared to now, it seems as if I knew very little indeed, even though I know practically nothing now.

Some of the links may not work totally right, as some things have since moved around.

First we start off with some Christmas cards I did for the site on my blogroll. These are a little primitive, but I still like them, and I think a couple are pretty funny.

The Rater Creator was something I made so people could set up a way to have visitors rate things, in kind of a contest sort of way. This was one I made for CheddarX, but nothing ever happened with it. I don’t even remember how it really works.

The editor test was meant as a way to generate html in something of a WYSIWYG environment

Editor Test2 is similar, except applies different editing stuff. I probably meant to combine these at some point, though I don’t really know why.

I always liked this little thing. It takes some text and makes an email address out of it. Stupid and easy, but I always liked it nonetheless.

I include this familytalk thing because it was one of the first things I ever did when I got my website.

I used to think this import test thing was more or less old fashioned, and that I probably wouldn’t use it, but now that I am doing more AJAX style stuff, I think it will come into play more. Boring though.

Here is something to automatically generate pages of stuff. I think this is somewhat useful, somehow. I’m not sure that I would ever implement it for anything though.

This populates a table and provides additional details in a floating box. I think that this combined with some newer AJAX php jazz might work rather well.

I was looking at the code for this calendar, and I think I must have been out of my mind. It is just crazy, and I don’t think it works right either.

I still love this. I don’t understand why GetUpOffMYNuttster isn’t sweeping the nation. It’s a social exclusion network.

I think I was going to work this into a Card Playing redesign at some point, but it never really worked right, and I couldn’t decide what the point of it was. Some cool images found around the web though.

here is a basically moronic madlib thing I made. I thought it might be cool to set up a way to define your own madlibs, but never got around to doing it.

I created this big ass, and dumb, numerology thing, for no reason. I think the method used to get the result is actually reasonably accurate though.

The linkentry thing was an ambitious effort to create a way to show the interlinking of the internet, or more specifically, blogs. Nothing ever happened with this, but I still think it is essentially a good idea.

There you have it. A variety of silly unused crap. Some if it is sound at least in concept. I’m sure the list of tried tested and failed ideas will continue to grow over the new year.