Rejoice! Now you can leave comments on pictures! Click the "leave a comment" link on either the main page or on the picture detail page. You need an account to leave comments.

This addition is the first step toward making millihelens more interactive. Depending on the reaction, I'll add more interactive features in the future.

The statistics browser I was talking about is done, but unfortunately the graphs are somewhat unclear. You can check out the statistics browser here. Just to get you started, here's a graph comparing blondes and brunettes. If you have any ideas to make the graphs clearer, let me know.

My friend and I started a puzzle website in the style of College Puzzle Challenge. The puzzles don't come with rules, and each one is different. To solve them, you may have to do anything from looking up river names on the internet to folding some origami. They're a lot of fun, and I encourage you to give them a shot!

(If you like the site, Digg it!)

Also, for all you math-y types who like statistics (e.g. me), I have something cool in the works for millihelens. It's a score browser that lets you compare the score distributions of various tags. Soon we'll be able to answer the age-old question: are blondes really hotter than brunettes?

I'm also working on adding comments for the pictures, and finally releasing user-to-user messaging. I've debated the messaging feature for a long time: on the positive side, it will let you meet people on millihelens, but on the negative side, there's potential for harassment. I've decided that I'll give it a shot and hope that some people don't ruin it for everyone. These changes should be up in around two weeks.

Check out the millihelens facebook app! It works just like millihelens.com, but in facebook! Show off how hot you are!

I've never really been much of a graphic designer, so I'm actually quite surprised by how much I like this layout and color scheme. I'm not thrilled with the individual page layouts yet, but that's a problem for another day.

Leave a comment on this post if something is broken in your browser. I tested in Firefox and IE, but it's still possible that something doesn't look quite right. Be specific about the problem, and let me know what browser you're using so I can check it out myself. Thanks!

Time to move on and work on bigger and better things! I'm working on a facebook application, which I hope to finish sometime in the next few weeks.

I haven't made much progress on millihelens in the past month. I've been bogged down with midterms, labs, and job interviews. Sorry :<

I always feel like I have a ton of ideas for millihelens, and it drives me crazy when I can't get something done on the site. I'm planning on spending one day in the coming week working on user-to-user messaging and user profiles. I think being able to talk to other people on the site will really make it more fun. The only problem is that there are some privacy issues that I'll have to think about. I'm also working with a friend of mine to fix up the look and feel of the website.

Hopefully November will be a more productive month than October was.