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Searching Through SpaceTime3D

By Simon Fodden

There are times when Google’s minimalism palls and you want something just a little more… racy, perhaps, when you’re hunting down that special website that contains all the answers you need. When ennui de recherche strikes, move your operations over to SpaceTime3D, the cosmically inflated name for a pretty front end to Google, Wikipedia, Amazon, etc. What you’ll get is what we Mac users know as “cover flow,” that old fashioned jukebox effect where the website pages emerge from a stack like records on the old machines.

This isn’t very efficient, unless you’re looking for a certain kind of site and the gestalt of the page lets you know with a glimpse that you’re there. But it might be a way to lighten a Friday — or even a Monday, come to that.

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on July 24, 2009 (boomark / email).