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I'm happy to say the problem is Fixed. FF3 is nice and fast now. :)

I like your suggestion of making the nav box minimizable. That could reduce the actions to just icons, taking up very little space. A bar across the top would be nice too, but I have other plans for that space... :)

Actually, there is just that. :) Arrows below the titles on the individual shelves will take you to the next and previous shelves.

It seems they're not quite obvious enough yet, though. Maybe it's time to make them uglier.

Yes, the zoomed-out behaviour isn't quite right yet. I'm thinking of doing overlays which show you the category areas when more zoomed-out.

There is a category navigation panel, actually. The link to it is at the top-left.

And you can get from shelf to shelf very smoothly by clicking on the arrows just below the individual shelf titles.

Hi, I'm the creator of Zoomii. I've been (mostly) lurking on Hacker News for some time now.

Thanks for the feedback. It is very slow on FF3 right now, due I think to its slow scaled-image rendering and tossing of uncompressed image data whenever leaving the tab. But it looks like using a CANVAS will actually make FF3 the fastest browser for Zoomii. Working on it. Hope to deploy that today.

I failed at two startups before my current one, which is close to launch. After each failure I took a break, feeling weak and like failure just like you are. But time heals all wounds. Before too much time had passed (a couple years) the excitement (and finances) had returned, and I jumped back in the game. I feel much, much stronger for the experience of those 2 failed startups. I don't regret them one bit. Sooner or later you'll probably feel grateful and happy for the experience you had, failure or no. Why not start now?

Getting Things Done, by David Allen

anything by Edward Tufte

The Singularity Is Near, by Ray Kurzweil

Dip, by Seth Godin

I'd just like visited links to be more different from unvisited links. Right now I have to look closely to distinguish between the two.