Thursday, May 29, 2008

A is for autofill

I have a neat idea and if it catches on, it may become a full-blown online blog meme or, at least, a decent way to spend ten minutes.

With the proliferation of browsers that use autofill to help complete URLs in the address field - such as Firefox and Safari and probably more - often we have to type only a few letters to get the browser to acknowledge where we want to go. It occurred to me that the autofills suggested by each single letter could provide a sense of one's being.

Here are mine with comments in brackets:

A: agw.bombs-away.net/
B: baseballprospectus.com/
C: complicationsensue.blogspot.com/
D: dilbertblog.typepad.com/
E: ebay.com/
F: facebook.com/
G: gmail.com/
H: habsinsideout.com/
I: ikariam.org/ (an online game)
J: jcc.ca/ (surprising - a computer store)
K: kenlevine.blogspot.com/
L: latimes.com/
M: my3.statcounter.com/
N: nhl.com/ (I was sure this was going to be one of my class Web sites at nyveen.surfzen.com)
O: onlinepools.com/
P: pbs.org/cringely/
Q: queryletters.blogspot.com/
R: rotoworld.com/
S: s6.ikariam.org/ (a game server; see the entry for I)
T: the-legion-of-decency.blogspot.com/
U: uninflectedimages.blogspot.com/
V: valpatken.com/ (a Japanese site that no longer exists; I forget what it was)
W: weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/
X: xevious.stanford.edu/ho/ (I forget what that was, too)
Y: youtube.com/
Z: zaf.baseball.sportsline.com/

Gosh, that's dull.

Never mind.

3 Comments:

Blogger quibbler04 said...

A: antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html (Astronomy Picture of the Day)
B: bodocus.com (Best Online Documentaries)
C: canadiancynic.blogspot.com/
D: digg.com
E: eucalypta-off-topic.blogspot.com (Dutch Blog about Linux)
F: fullcirclemagazine.org (Ubuntu Linux Magazine)
G: gmail.com
H: haha.nu (emagazine)
I: inthehouseandsenate.blogspot.com
J: jasondclinton.livejournal.com
K: kb.mozillazine.org/Knowledge_Base
L: linuxcommando.blogspot.com
M: members.home.nl/herald-en-sandra (Friend's web site)
N: news.individual.net (Usenet Site)
O: ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm
P: pixdaus.com (Pretty Pictures)
Q: qliner.com/quotes/default.htm (Quotes)
R: reader.google.com
S: suprnova.org/ (torrent search)
T: thepiratebay.org (torrent search)
U: ubuntuforums.org
V: validator.w3.org (check web documents)
W: wizbangblog.com
X: x-ways.net/davory (software)
Y: yamipod.com/main/modules/home (software)
Z: zompist.com/phrases (a very handy phrasebook)

May 30, 2008 7:43 AM  
Blogger Naila J. said...

A: http://apps.facebook.com/scrabulous/ (Surprise, surprise!)
B: http://bbc.co.uk/
C: http://www.cbc.radio-canada.ca/jobs/current.shtml
D: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1021819/Brangelina-splash-35m-French-chateau-complete-vineyard-ponies-expanding-brood.html (My only "d" link)
E: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Clancy (Checking out chronology)
F: http://www.facebook.com/home.php? (Totally expected)
G: http://www.google.com/ig
H: http://hgtv.com/
I: http://isthishappening.typepad.com/blog/
J: http://jobs.workopolis.com/jobshome/db/gi.featured_joblist?pi_employer=72471 (I see a trend)
K: http://www.keithurban.net/site.php?content=tour
L: http://login.yahoo.com/config/mail?.intl=ca
M: http://mail.yahoo.ca/ (well then)
N: news.search.yahoo.com/search/news;_ylt=A0WTTkqHQjtIeYUAkQbQtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTA3Nzc4ZmdoBHNlYwNyZWw-?ei=UTF-8&p=CHRISTOPHER+HIGGINS&rs=more (Apparently, I looked up Christopher Higgins)
O: (OMG! No "o" link!)
P: http://perezhilton.com/
Q: http://www.quebecorworldinc.com/jobs.aspx?start=10&doSearch=1
R: http://rogers.ca/
S: https://secure.ingdirect.ca/InitialINGDirect.html
T: http://www.tvsquad.com/
U: http://us.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/dc/launch?.rand=0tokp1m6s75ta
V: http://ville.kirkland.qc.ca/
W: http://www4.bmo.com/
X: http://xkcd.com/
Y: http://youtube.com/
Z: http://zbaraschuk.blogspot.com/

So I'm into media, news, banking, and entertainment. Good thing none of this was embarrassing...

May 30, 2008 12:18 PM  
Blogger Alex Epstein said...

Yeah, you should definitely turn that into a meme.

June 11, 2008 2:28 PM  

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