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Found this walking around in Sausalito. We just so happened to buy a little zombie finger puppet moments before too.

My newest project, splurb.com, is now open for everyone to read.

The idea is simple. Find links that have been made popular across all the social voting sites. Only list the ones that have appeared on two or more of those sites.

Those sites include digg, reddit, mixx, propeller, yahoo buzz, fark, and tweetmeme. If you follow all (or even a few) of those sites daily, you’ll end up reading through a ton of links. I wanted to cut into the noise a bit and extract out a condensed list of the best links of the day.

So far it’s worked great and has stayed very interesting. Please check it out and always love feedback. Visit splurb.com

You can also read a great article by Christina Warren over at Mashable on splurb

Here’s another solution to the recession. Honest tea has a gaping void at the bottom of their bottle. It’s about 1.25 inches deep. I was amazed when my friend showed it to me. This makes the bottom of a wine bottle look like a golf ball dimple. The result is a bottle with a deceptively long and thirst quenching figure.

Update:

Here’s a comparison of the new and old bottles (the new one on the left). Even though they contain the same amount of tea, the one of the left looks larger!

I made an iPhone app that plays a sound that attracts cats. Watch it work below. You can get the app at http://bit.ly/catcaller

I like wolframalpha and have used it several times. They had great buzz going, but it looks like it didn’t stick.

Phones aren’t the only things getting smaller — here are my adapters from an ipod, original iphone and the new iphone 3GS

This is one of the funnier things I’ve seen happen with showing people’s cursors on a website. I decided to check the chat logs and noticed that there were about 50 instances of documented cursor humping happening within the firefly community.

Yes, the web has now been reduced to cursors humping each other.

If you’d like to see for yourself, go head over to firef.ly or you can also turn on firefly on this page (the switch to the right or by clicking here).

I’ll post any other funny screenshots people take

I opened up the firefly install page today and now anyone can install it on their websites. So far it’s been going smoothly, with a lot of great conversation happening.

If you have a sec, please go to the Alley Insider article here and maybe digg it too

If you’re unfamiliar with firefly, you can visit the homepage at firef.ly

I am no usability expert nor do I try to pass myself off as one — but Alexa’s new tweaks have made the site even more unbearable. I have been using Alexa out of habit, but no more.

1. They pre-populate their fields. Why? Do they really think this adds to the user’s experience? People are going there with a list of sites on their mind and don’t care what Alexa thinks are interesting comparisons.

2. I was marginally able to handle their pre-populated list because they gave a “clear” button that removed them. That pesky convenience has been removed. Now I have to manually remove each field before continuing with my graph.

3. Check your major browsers! Their site displays a broken layout in firefox 3. I’m guilty of not checking every browser when I create something, but I at least have the common sense to check firefox 2/3, IE, and Safari. Both on Mac and PC. It usually ends up with me writing a ton of CSS and javascript that is special cased.

How all this stuff passed through the levels of Q/A, testing, and developers boggles my mind.

In my post about the most expensive drink at starbucks, I challenged other people to make a more expensive drink (by using a free starbucks coupon), and Sherryl made a drink that was a $1.25 (pre-tax) more in L.A. Here is what she says:

“I ended up ordering a Venti White Chocolate Mocha with the following additions:

16 shot of espresso, 10 pumps of vanilla, x white mocha, x caramel, soy milk and an energy boost. My drink cost me a total of $13.95 (w/out tax in LA CA).Mine was more expensive than his. YAY!…

Oh wait.. I forgot to tell you how it tasted.. It wasn’t the best. I took a few sips and it was very thick and you can taste the coffee and hints of sweetness. I didn’t drink it all (no plans of bouncin off the walls today) and a couple of my co-workers took a sip as well. LOL! Good thing it was a free drink.. thank God for coupons!”

Her receipt:

Nice job Sherryl!!