Fuck. Me.
“The introduction of a new search engine does not ordinarily elicit the same oooh’s and aaah’s as the introduction of the new Prada collection, but this is unlike any search engine we’ve ever seen,” enthused the blog at a women’s Web-shopping site. “Now we don’t even have to be able to read and write, to be able to shop,” it says. “Text searches are so last season.”
This may be the single saddest thing I’ve ever read on the internet. I’m going to go cry myself illiterate now, so I can truly appreciate the website in question.
I do have to be honest, if a little disgusted with myself – the site really is kind of cool. I’ve been poking around it and have already found some really neat things that I didn’t know existed (but have been trying to create in my own clumsy Fisher-Price Fashion School sort of way). If only I were as rich as I am illiterate! I could fill up my Porsche SUV (not to be confused with my Gen1 Hummer or BMW SUV) with brand-name merchandise; the more expensive the better!
In the same vein of consumer greed, I am deeply in lust with this. I need some sort of internet Sugar Guardian to provide me with all the shiny things I’m finding online. Any volunteers? No? Crap.
delicious juice dot com 
I think Ed should get you that bracelet for Christmas so that I can admire it on you. I’ve asked for one like it for years and not gotten it, so I think someone else should at least get to enjoy one. Get to shopping Ed!
Don’t know if you’re serious in this post, but… The http://www.like.com site is mostly a show window for the image/shape recognition tool that the company behind the site made. Similar features are coming up in Windows Vista too, I think: You can have your photos auto-tagged with the names of people whose faces are (computer) recognized in the pictures, maybe with objects too, and then you can search for pictures with, for example
lisa AND mailbox
Pretty cool stuff, and not so vacuous as celebrety purse lookalike shopping. :-)
Cheers,
Jan Karlsbjerg
http://www.jankarlsbjerg.com/blog/
Oh the tool itself is really cool, I agree – I was actually really impressed with the amount of detail it can search through, and the number of results it’ll find you. My disgust was aimed at the “must have” mentality behind wanting the latest designer goodies, and the fact that someone said “now we don’t have to read or write to be able to shop!” as being a good thing instead of the horror it actually is :)