All that aside, its a really great interface. Soon as you enable some additional functionality (like search) and speed up the interface, this will be something I want to come to.
There's a standalone app OS X that you can keep open for hours, so it won't bog down your main browser:
Yes, it's just a WebView... I hope people don't think I'm trying to push it as a "real" OS X app, because it's just javascript, so I'm trying to call it a "Standalone Browser."
Excellent work. I am not sure about the name, I presume you are trying to say 'almost like being there?'. It probably doesn't help that today's top story is the sad news about that missing plane :-/ ...one feature request would be some kind of feed/download option for the stats window at the bottom...though for the few who'd be interested in doing math on it, I suppose it wouldn't be much more effort to just go to Twitter directly. I found myself wondering about the absolute numbers represented by the graph, though.