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This makes me think of this research [0] where students on a photography course had to choose one photo they took to take home. One half was allowed to swap after a few days, the others weren't:

"Compared with experiencers whose decisions were escapable, those who were not allowed to change their minds showed a greater preference for their chosen photo two and nine days after they had made their decision."

So being able to swap your art may actually make you unhappier in the end! But it also mentions that people think they'll be happier given the choice, and will pay good money for it.

[0] http://www.apa.org/monitor/oct01/strength.aspx , under the "The price of freedom" heading

This is a genuine question: what do you mean by "Don't let the title fool you"?

You would have to ask Github, as they own the copyright to Octocat.

I think the problem most people had with Wave's scrollbars is that they didn't indicate the height/length of the document very well. The Canonical design above has solved this by retaining the visual indicator.

Posted here[0] where it was pointed out that that page has been around since 2009

[0] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2319412

I really can't tell if this is meant to be facetious or not.

I've used http://paper.li/ to create a "newspaper" from my personal twitter feed (http://paper.li/Stuidge ). I follow people I'm interested in, and paper.li picks up their links and gives me an interesting daily summary.

This isn't quite the same idea as the OP, but I have found a lot of interesting links this way.

Exactly what I was thinking. Sure you can work incredibly hard for 2/3 days, but at the end of it all you are going to be very tired. I don't think it would be physically possible to do this for a whole month.

I really would love to try something like this though.

How is it going to be paid for?

This looks very interesting.

If you're interested in testing on browsers with their heads intact, have a look at the Watir project, for which Opera has just released an implementation to complete the set: http://operawatir.com

Disclaimer: I work for Opera.

Yes, soon after posting I realised it wasn't the best idea I've ever had. I regret posting this before the Github guys got a chance to fix the hole. Not something I'm going to repeat.

Something @chrislloyd and I found in Github. Nothing too serious!

Ahh yes, this tiny application is a permanent part of my Windows tool kit. Absolutely fantastic for finding out where all the disk space has gone.

Then I'm afraid you must have missed something. If, for example (as it was the first net screenshot I found) you enter "bella" into the top left search box, you get back this: http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/files/2009/08/spotify_deskto...

Double click any of those and it will instantly start streaming the song.

> thank you for proving an example page

Yes, this is great, but I only found it after reading this reply. I think it would help if you made the link more prominent.

From the reddit conversation: you can return any market app within 24 hours for a refund. Seems a bit cheeky, but it does allow you to demo it.

This is a really interesting idea, one that I would seriously consider subscribing to. I imagine having someone phone/Skype you would push the price up a lot though.

Possibly an email service, although that slightly removes the personal connection from it. I'm going to have to think about this...

Hi, as I said to Groxx, this was just a quick hack, hopefully nothing to take too seriously.

There are definitely improvements that could be made, for example looking at the direction of travel, and if someone wants to try implementing them I would love to see it! (And yep, for full time use another method of getting it on to the page would be far superior. I felt like a bookmarklet was the most frictionless way to try it out personally, and to get others to give it a go as well)

Thanks for the feedback!

Hi, I just put this together quickly to see what it feels like when used on a web page rather than an artificial environment, it wasn't intended as a fully featured interaction method.

In fact even while playing around with it myself I found it frustrating that I couldn't click anywhere without following a link, and you're right that the implementation is very naive. This was just a bit of fun which I wanted to put out there. Hopefully that explains why it isn't perfect :)

Hi, I'm the author. I haven't seen that behaviour before. Would you mind telling me which browser/OS you're using?