Current timestamp: I love it when a plan comes together
Okay, this is pretty cool. Back in August, I wrote about the problem of finding a way to say "this is my web site now!" in such a way that invalidates older instances of such a statement. Timestamps and serial numbers have ways of being corrupted by innocent typos, and so on -- there's more in the old post.
One of the things I mentioned in there was the possibility of having a list of phrases which never existed before a certain date. Then you could say that a given proclamation was no older than that date... or the person who wrote it had a time machine, take your pick.
The list of phrases was actually recycled from my "video bidding" idea from June of last year. The idea there was the same: the picture couldn't have been taken before the point where that phrase existed.
Here's where it gets awesome: someone went out and did this! This morning, I got a note from Andrew that he had built a site which did exactly this. Thanks, Andrew!
So, here it is, the "current timestamp".
Note that the nature of randomness means you might get some weird phrases, like the quasi-suggestive one up there now. I'll consider that a feature, not a bug.
So, world, there it is. Go forth and do awesome things with it.
[2023 update: it's dead and has some stupid scammy casino ad crap, so I repointed this to an archive.org link instead to show what it looked like.]