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With the design of my site doing my head in, I decided to go find me some inspiration: 


Viewzi is a new type of search engine which lists sites as images in various funky ways.

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OkayDave - Dave Werner’s portfolio uses black and white images, which when rolled over change to coloured. When you click something, colored particles brighten the screen before going to the selected page.

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Funnel Design Group - A cool way of showing design, with loads of little clickable/rollover bits.

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Serge Seidlitz’s - portfolio site is made up of loads of clickable images, which once clicked open up a pop up displaying his work. Very nice to look at.

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 Phatterism - The funnest blog i’ve ever seen. Uses a mixture of video and clickable links to get to different posts.

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Shane Mielke - Another portfolio with links to cool flash based sites.

And lastly: 

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Bestiaro - A very pretty site with loads of visual data links.


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As people keep posting questions (and the fact I posted my question late night when there probably isn’t alot of traffic to the site), the question I posed moved down the page fairly quickly thus not getting as many responds as I would have liked, but I did get something which was very cool. Nothing usable. But it is interesting to see peoples feeling about jelly beans when they aren’t faced with a box of them. 

 

I like any bean accept sours. 
/ NOV 10, 2008 8:28 AM EST
yuck
/ NOV 9, 2008 7:23 PM EST
Jelly Belly makes the best jelly beans. They come in a wide variety of flavors.
/ NOV 9, 2008 7:12 PM EST
Yuk!
/ NOV 9, 2008 6:59 PM EST
what are you talking about? the black ones are best!
/ NOV 9, 2008 6:08 PM EST
Yuk!
/ NOV 9, 2008 6:02 PM EST
the black ones are my fav!
/ NOV 9, 2008 6:01 PM EST
they are all just sugar
/ NOV 9, 2008 5:52 PM EST
I have to go to Belgium to get my jelly beans
THE NETHERLANDS / NOV 9, 2008 5:50 PM EST
Oh, the purple ones are evil again huh? 
THE NETHERLANDS / NOV 9, 2008 5:49 PM EST
I agree about the green ones
THE NETHERLANDS / NOV 9, 2008 5:49 PM EST
Red, orange, yellow, green, pink and blue jelly-beans are good for you. 
/ NOV 9, 2008 5:48 PM EST
I start each day with a handful of Jelly Beans. I have no specific flavour preference but i dislike the visual appeal of the green ones…/ NOV 9, 2008 5:47 PM EST
Yes. The purple ones. 
THE NETHERLANDS / NOV 9, 2008 5:44 PM EST

JustCurio.us

08Nov08

As well as gathering data from friends and family, I decided to use Jonathan Harris’ website Just Curious to pose a question to the users. This allows me to ask random strangers in other countries about there feelings towards jelly beans. It won’t fully be useable,  but it may give me some great data to look at. 

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Ignore the silly question at the bottom. Answer my amazing question :  Here


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California Prop 8

 

This is a little diagram to show the number of people who voted for or against Proposition 8, in the state of California.  


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Here is a ‘map’ of key words used most by Barack Obama in his victory speech.

Yes we can.