HOT GUIDS: A hot or not site for guids

Social software seems to be going into a lot of niche areas lately. I thought I'd try and jump ahead of the next wave and build my own social website:

HOT GUIDS - Socializing the Guid

Finally there's a place where people can vote on and discuss their favorite guids.

I've built in pretty much all the best social features. You can vote on a guid, see other votes for a guid, adopt a guid, or email a guid to your friends. And if you get sick of the guid you're looking at: with the click of a button you can move onto a whole new guid.

I'm trying to really take the long tail of human interest by storm. If I get just one customer for each guid, then I'll get... oh I don't know, it must be a *lot* of hits.

Thanks to Stack Overflow for the guid generating snippet. The web template started out the same as 'CreditCardOlogy' but with a little (Powerpoint + MSPaint + PngOut) I took it to a new place entirely.

If you're unsure what any of this is about, please read about guids (& UUIDs) at wikipedia, or try running this Simple Proof That Guid is not Unique.

And make sure email me if you see any particular delicious looking guids. There's some beauties out there.

'Artur Carvalho' on Sun, 30 May 2010 19:20:53 GMT, sez:

LOOL! Are you using MVC? hehehe

'Strom' on Sun, 30 May 2010 21:08:18 GMT, sez:

Doesn't seem to work correctly. I'm disappointed.

'barryd' on Sun, 30 May 2010 21:17:59 GMT, sez:

What the f**k were you thinking? Your over consumption of GUIDs is going to lead to peak GUID as your profligate waste just to vote on how hot they are or not starts to work through the generation of new GUIDs.

There's only a finite number of GUIDs and I am shocked, nay, dismayed that someone could be to wreckless as to start mining the untapped GUID sources just to try to make a quick profit.

FOR SHAME SIRRAH! FOR SHAME!

'David H' on Sun, 30 May 2010 22:56:46 GMT, sez:

I think there must be something wrong with your code. How could it be possible that there is not ANY single women in my area who are intertested in GUIDs? Oh wait, that's right, I live on the planet earth ; )

As usual LB, pure genius.

'Matthew Martin' on Tue, 01 Jun 2010 05:26:58 GMT, sez:

So a GUID walks into a bar and says to another GUID, "Haven't I seen you before?"

'Jon Rowett' on Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:47:57 GMT, sez:

sublime. i'm going to use this at my lunchtime brown-bag GUID dojo!

'mike' on Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:25:15 GMT, sez:

Leon, I can't believe that you are exploiting GUIDs for your own personal gain, that you encourage people to objectify GUIDs like this, and that you've reduced the qualities of an entire class of unique* identifiers to nothing more than a beauty pageant and popularity contest. For shame!

:-)

* Presumed.

'Leon' on Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:53:24 GMT, sez:

Sorry Mike. It is rather crass.

'paul' on Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:32:46 GMT, sez:

"There are no single women in your area who are interested in guids."

Damn, just when I hoped I would find true love.

'yd' on Mon, 28 Jun 2010 01:50:54 GMT, sez:

You could achieve a significant speedup on your site by removing that 2,500ms delay.

'Andrew Jackson' on Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:36:43 GMT, sez:

*chuckle*

Nice one!

Check out my epic GUID that I've adopted:
1e6c1fee-23cb-6db2-556c-76671c05ae4d

<i>Word to enter: meatbag</i>

'abc redo' on Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:10:07 GMT, sez:

Did you go to college with this GUID?

'Andrew Jackson' on Sun, 07 Nov 2010 22:27:25 GMT, sez:

@abc redo: No I didn't, but I wish I did!

<i>Again, the word to enter was "meatbag" I hereby adopt the "meatbag" as *MY* word to enter on this site. My word and HK-47's. :-)</i>

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/HK-47

'Jeremy Harris' on Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:58:12 GMT, sez:

This gave me my morning chuckle. Two years later and it's still funny!

name


website (optional)


enter the word:
 

comment (HTML not allowed)

All viewpoints welcome. But the right to delete any post for any reason is reserved. Don't make me do it. Aim for constructiveness. Comments may be republished, emailed to your loved ones or printed and used as toilet paper. Also, I get particularly nasty on comment spam. It's not worth even trying to post comment spam here -- your html is escaped, and your links are given a rel='nofollow'. By attempting to post a comment, you understand that if the comment is considered spam, at my absolute discretion, your IP address may be used as the target of a prolonged distributed denial of service attack. Your electricity might suddenly stop working. Your car tyres will go mysteriously flat. You will suffer permanent hairloss. Your dreams will be filled with terrifying monsters. And in any case I reserve the right to record and publish your IP address.

 

TimeSnapper_{Know thyself!}

TimeSnapper is a life analysis system that stores and plays-back your computer use. It makes timesheet recording a breeze, helps you recover lost work and shows you how to sharpen your act.

 

NimbleText is a Powerful FREE Tool

Use it for:

• extracting data from text
• manipulating text
• generating code

It makes you look awesome. Use it right now! Go on! Hurry! Don't walk, run!