So I LOVE the OWN3D thread. It's way funnier than other image websites, because a ton of people have spent tons of time uploading tons of great images to try to top one another. It's also way cleaner than other image websites, because we've got mods who did a good job keeping out the garbage.
Since the quality of the content is so high, I started out with aspirations to scrape the image locations off the thread and make a web page. I wrote some code to go through the thread and download images. I now have about 15,000 pictures, totalling about 4 gigabytes. I can't tell you how incredible it is to randomly look through these images, most of which are awesome.
Then I decided I want to work on something else instead. That's where you come in, nerd that's reading this! One of the hardest parts is done now! Who's got skillz and wants to help? I think it'd be amazing to have a hotornot.com rating scale (back when you could rate people from 1 to 10). Then, you could weed out the lame images that get poor ratings. Plus, it's fun to rate pictures.