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Here is my collection of thoughts, ideas, and musings. Everyone always comes up with more ideas that they can hope to accomplish. I've taken to sharing mine, because if I wrote it down, I think it's worthwile in some form. If I can inspire you to work on any of them, please contact me and let me know. You may also be interested in the proofs of concepts that are one step above abstract ideas.

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YKCD: XKCD is the best thing on the internet in my opinion. YKCD is my nickname for a hot-or-not style site where users can submit their own XKCD-style comics, which would be voted up and down by the community. The whole point of it is to get more XKCD-style humor into my life.
Topo Generator: This probably exists in some form - but the idea is simple. Take a topographic map, and convert it into a 3D surface.
.Net Framework... for Javascript: Not putting javascript into .Net or anything like that - but the concept of .Net (high level languages compiling down into an intermediate language) applied to javascript. We're getting there with javascript frameworks, but it can be taken farther. Read this article by Joel to get a better sense at what I'm describing.
Letter Scanner: I want to stick a stack of letters onto a feed input of a scanner, and hit go. I want those letters to be scanned, and put into my email client. OCR them, grab the sender, the date, the message. Attach images so I can reference them. I almost want some level above email, that will include letters and emails... and notes maybe? But I kind of run out of file-able inbox-type items besides letters and emails, so I think putting them in email will be sufficient.
Desk Scanner: While you're at it - I want my entire desk surface to be a scanner. Let me lasso objects to be scanned.
3D Excel: This came up when I needed to represent 4-dimentional data in Excel. I have my own idea of how it would look graphically; but why limit you? How would you make it look? Can you extend your design to 4 dimensions? After 4, it should be easy to 5 right? Can you keep going in a user friendly way? This could be a good exercise for user interface design...

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