Cool micro sites and businesses

Absolutely nothing to do with startups, but how cool is this classic
The Jerry Thomas Bartender’s Guide from 1862 is now available in its entirety on-line. Featuring such classics as the Martinez and the Spread Eagle Punch.

That last one sounds great —

• a bottle of scotch (Islay single of course)
• a bottle of Monongahela Rye (good luck finding that nowadays, but I guess you could use any old Rye)
• Lemon peel, sugar and boiling water at discretion.

Now I need to find out what a pony measure is. I guess google is my friend here.

Paul who I met at Reboot is starting up a new web service SiteVista for checking out what web pages look like from a whole range of web browsers. It’s pretty cool and extremely useful.

In this blog post he is debating openly about pricestructure for his service. This is one of those subject areas that are very scary to open up, so congratulations to Paul for having the guts to do so.

I want to do so for StakeItOut as well, but will wait until such a time that I have a few more features in it for me to tell the StakeItOut story better.

YubNub has to be one of the most original sites out there. It bills itself as “A social command line for the web”. It basically has a bunch of pre formatted search url’s that you can type into one place.

YubNub was written in Ruby on Rails as StakeItOut is. It was actually written in less than 24 hours for the Rails Day competition and is an excellent example of what can be written by a good solo coder in short time.

I’ve added a stake command to it myself. See the man stake page for how to use it.