user SuperCruncher <b>Good news</b> all McDonalds lovers: from the above brochure from McDonalds in Thailand, it seems that McDonalds is now really healthy food! ::grin::<p> Stumbled across my home node? Then let me know what you think of this. I'm sick of PHP Web Forums-type software. Not because they're written in PHP, but because they have hundreds of buttons and silly little emoticons, no nested displaying of threads, only support for old-style moderation etc. I want to make the <b>ultimate web forum software</b> (in Perl). Here are a main list of features / design goals: <ul> <li>Usability and effective displaying of information are the top priorities (no silly icons). <li>Community based moderation system--a combination of the Perlmonks and <a href="">Slashdot</a> system. The moderation system would reward users giving their posts good subjects and assigning categories (see below). <li>Arbitrary "categories" can be set up by the administrator (e.g. a post might be specific to a geographic location) with a set of values (which can be either 'any', a specific domain etc.). The value of this is that a poster can quickly describe their post and these categories can be used by other users to "filter" posts. <li>Nested displaying of threads. <li>Optional read-only XML-RPC and NNTP interfaces. <li>Easy to install, relying on a minimal number of external modules (or will package modules in a lib dir). </ul> If you're interested by this, let me know (/msg me)--I'm looking for people to work with me on this project. I'm planning on releasing the code under an open source license but I'm not sure which one.<p> &lt;rant&gt;<br> What is up with web DUHsigners implementing their own ridiculous scrolling controls? Non-standard GUI controls are a very bad idea, and <a href="">Jakob Nielsen thinks so too</a>. Non-standard scroll bars rarely offer all the functionality of a normal scroll bar, and perhaps most importantly, cannot be used with a wheel mouse! This is so annoying! Also annoying are sites that require you to <i>manually select a language</i>, for example <A href="">easyJet</a>. Have these designs never heard of the HTTP Accept-Language header?!<br> &lt;/rant&gt;<p> <table rows="1" cols="1" bgcolor="orange" align="center" width="70%" cellpadding="3"> <tr bgcolor="orange"> <td><b>Like food?</b> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <b>Like Restaurants?</b><p> Sign up as a <a href="">ChefMoz</a> editor and help build the world's largest (and <b>best</b>) restaurant guide. If you're a <a href="">dmoz</a> editor, you can use the same login! <td></tr> </table> "Perl's style is unorthodox, but effective"<br> (paraphrased from <a href="">Enter the Dragon</a> :-) ) 2012-08-31 10:46:38 862 366328 images/userincoming/SuperCruncher.gif 65 Northern Ireland 1