February 10, 2009 @ 9:35 am
Zappos introduced a new way to browse their shoe collection over at explore.zappos.com (you can still browse the traditional way, too). The system somehow finds similar looking shoes to the one you pick and subsuequently offers suggestions as to what you should look at next. And just for fun and to spice things up, they also throw in a few random items into the list too in hopes that you’ll click those and go even further away from where you started. Hey, maybe you’ll find a new style somewhere along the way…
The thing that’s great about this new browsing method is that it allows you to see a lot more shoes at once. Plus, it’s blazing fast and dare I say, a bit easier than the traditional Zappos method.
October 30, 2008 @ 4:11 pm
The Daily Mail has some fantastic (and big!) pictures of one of the world’s deepest underground shafts. This particular shaft is located in China and measures an incredible 3100 feet in depth. An international team of explorers climbed down the shaft during a one-month period and stayed about 4-5 days at a time at the bottom.
Robert Shone of Manchester went with the team and photographed the expedition using the camera set up seen below.
As deep as this shaft appears, this is not actually the world’s deepest known shaft. The deepest shaft, located in Georgia (not the state), measures a length more than twice that of this shaft in China. I’d love to climb down one of these someday. Looks exciting to explore!
October 4, 2008 @ 1:04 pm
Flickr has apparently taken some inspiration from Of Pandas and Rainbows and created this Flickr Explore feature that shows a panda spitting out random photos on a rainbow! It is truly the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen from Flickr.
