Grand8 - Roller-coaster Simulator

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Roller coaster model kit

Roller coaster model kit 08/04/2004 03:24 PM
Build your own scale model roller coaster with this $500 kit from Coaster Dynamics. The video shows the coaster in action as mesmerized geeks move their heads around like cats watching a fly stuck between a window and a screen. Link

No Limits Roller Coaster

No Limits Roller Coaster 04/23/2004 01:29 AM
While I continue to enjoy it immensely, it will probably seem to be more of a novelty to most folks. By Tom Burns, Inside Mac Games (via MyAppleMenu)

Roller Coaster DataBase

Roller Coaster DataBase 04/11/2005 11:27 PM

Wal-Mart's Roller-Coaster Summer

Wal-Mart's Roller-Coaster Summer 08/23/2004 12:20 PM
Charley throws some water on Wal-Mart's August sales forecast.

Jane's midlife roller coaster
(USATODAY.com)

Jane's midlife roller coaster
(USATODAY.com) 08/23/2004 08:40 AM
USATODAY.com - Compared with many adults hit by bipolar disorder, Jane Pauley got off lightly with a rare midlife diagnosis and rapid symptom relief after three weeks in a top-notch hospital, say experts reacting to Pauley's disclosure of the illness in her autobiography.

Disability Cited in Roller Coaster Death
(AP)

Disability Cited in Roller Coaster Death
(AP) 05/02/2004 07:33 PM
AP - A 55-year-old man who died after falling out of a roller coaster shouldn't have been allowed on the ride because he was heavy and had cerebral palsy, his mother said Sunday.

U.S. Takes Hits at Roller-Coaster
Olympic Games

U.S. Takes Hits at Roller-Coaster
Olympic Games 08/15/2004 06:53 PM
Reuters via Wired News Aug 15 2004 10:37PM GMT

Bar code firm rides stock roller coaster

Bar code firm rides stock roller coaster 03/13/2003 09:54 PM
Symbol Technologies sees shares tumble 17 percent after hours on news of possible SEC lawsuits. Shares had surged earlier on word of a proposal to require bar codes on drugs.

Theme Park Tackles Roller-Coaster Phobia
(Reuters)

Theme Park Tackles Roller-Coaster Phobia
(Reuters) 05/12/2004 11:08 AM
Reuters - A German theme park will host a seminar on combating fears of roller-coaster rides -- a session one psychologist Wednesday described as helping people cope with their "weaker self."

Cognos stock on roller-coaster ride
after strong quarterly results

Cognos stock on roller-coaster ride
after strong quarterly results 04/02/2005 06:32 PM
Canadian Press Apr 2 2005 11:28PM GMT

Stock in Internet travel company Orbitz
trades heavily in roller-coaster debut

Stock in Internet travel company Orbitz
trades heavily in roller-coaster debut 12/17/2003 09:33 PM
AP via New Jersey Online Dec 17 2003 8:43PM ET

High-Tech Mummy Ride Aims to Combine the
Fright Factor With Roller Coaster
Thrills

High-Tech Mummy Ride Aims to Combine the
Fright Factor With Roller Coaster
Thrills 02/10/2004 02:55 AM
In the latest battle of the Florida theme parks, Universal Studios is completing construction of a technically advanced ride, Revenge of the Mummy.

Backyard Coaster

Backyard Coaster 07/13/2004 03:37 PM
The Blue Flash is a roller coaster that John Ivers constructed in his rural Indiana backyard.

"I love to go to amusement parks and ride the the rides, but I can't stand waiting in line... To be honest with you, I'm not an educated engineer or mathematician or anything like that. It was more or less trial-and-error."

Here's a radio piece on Ivers and his coaster from WYNC's "The Next Big Thing." Link< /a>

Nude coaster record

Nude coaster record 05/23/2004 06:25 AM
A group in Surrey have set the world's record for largest group of naked people on a rollercoaster. Hope they sterilized the seats afterwards! Link (Thanks, Patrick!)

The Left Coaster: Why You Should Ignore
The Gallup Poll This Morning - And Maybe
All Of Theirs

The Left Coaster: Why You Should Ignore
The Gallup Poll This Morning - And Maybe
All Of Theirs 09/17/2004 04:27 PM
entire election season .. Left Coaster .. rips apart

theleftcoaster.com/archives/002806.html
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"Steve Soto at The Left Coaster on Why
You Should Ignore The Gallup Poll This
Morning - And Maybe All Of Theirs"

"Steve Soto at The Left Coaster on Why
You Should Ignore The Gallup Poll This
Morning - And Maybe All Of Theirs" 09/18/2004 08:51 AM

The Left Coaster: 31 House Democrats
Vote For The Very Wealthy Yesterday, And
For The Banks Today

The Left Coaster: 31 House Democrats
Vote For The Very Wealthy Yesterday, And
For The Banks Today 04/15/2005 11:20 PM
steve soto at the left coaster .. List of 31 losers:

theleftcoaster.com/archives/004142.php
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Roller 1.0 is available

Roller 1.0 is available 02/01/2005 10:03 PM

Finally! Roller 1.0 is available. There will be a slightly more formal announcement on the Roller blog a little later.

• Roller 1.0 downloads
• Roller 1.0 Installation Guide
  
• Report bugs at Roller's JIRA site

If you have problems during install, join the Roller mailing lists or join us in the #roller IRC chat room on Freenode. BTW, I'll be updating the User Guide for 1.0 next week.

Roller 1.2-dev

Roller 1.2-dev 06/05/2005 11:32 PM

This site is now running Roller 1.2-dev (the latest from Roller's CVS HEAD), which includes Allen's cool new configuration system, Anil's new configurable ping feature and Anil's new topic tags plugin which makes it easy to add Technorati tags to any post, for example:

Tags: RollerWeblogger

Update: I'm not sure why Technorati is not picking up my tag. The tag looks to be properly formatted and I have "pinged" Technorati several times now (included a couple of manual pings).

What happens after Roller 1.0?

What happens after Roller 1.0? 01/07/2005 12:07 AM

Now that we're getting down to the last couple of bugs, it's time to think about what comes after Roller 1.0. I've been reviewing the bug database and making sure all the things folks have been asking for are in there as bugs, new features, or improvements. I've put together a list of the new feature areas that I personally think are most interesting with links into our JIRA issue tracker.

I'm posting this to get feedback from anybody and everybody willing to give it, but this is not a democratic process. My manager will ultimately determine what I work on (since the book eats all of my so called free time) and the other Roller developers will decide what they each want to work on. But we'd all like to hear what you, the Roller users and fans and victims (like Charles at Javablogs.com) have to say. You can respond here, on your blogs, in the issue tracking system (as votes or comments), or on the Roller mailing lists.

Group blogging

Group blogging is a long requested feature. We've always known that eventually, each user would have more than one blog and each blog could have more than one user ( ROL-598). We've also discussed the idea of a simple workflow, where only designated "editors" in a group blog can post and regular authors can only save drafts ( ROL-599).

Better front page / community area

Better front page and community features are also much requested. We need better ways to explore the blogs on a Roller server, better reports, and some way to browse users. Right now, you can only see who posted recently and the top 40 blogs for the day, based on hit counts ( ROL-561). Rick Ross has suggested adding a language field for each weblog entry, so that visitors can switch between the all languages front page to view only French entries, only Spanish, or whatever they prefer ( ROL-423). We've also discussed the idea of adding a community aggregator to the fron page ( ROL-596).

Better comment management

We've come a long way with comment spam protection in Roller 1.0, but have a ways to go. We have both CAPTCHA and simple math-question comment authenticators, but we could use some others. And we need better ways to manage, edit, and even bulk delete comments ( ROL-563).

Better plugin support

We have plugins now -- such as the read-more, wiki, and others -- but they could do so much more. We have discussed a proposal to expand plugin support to allow plugins to add arbitrary metadata to blog entries and to allow plugins to hook into the weblog editor ( ROL-601). Such a plugin would make it very easy to add support for Podcasting ( ROL-597).

Better URLs and GUIDs

Tim Bray commented on Roller's "lame" perma-links, which need fixing ( ROL-594). Also, Roller permalinks include the publication dates which can be changed so they don't really make good GUIDs -- we should fix that as well ( ROL-595). We'd better fix those are the same time too, so that Charles at Javablogs.com doesn't have to endure multiple floods of new JRoller and blogs.sun.com entries.

Administrative Improvements

Changes are also needed to help support Roller administrators. For example, a Roller admin should have a super-user capability so that they can view, edit, and delete any blog entry or comment in the system. ( ROL-600). To ease the pain of Roller installs, we need a real installer (we've discussed this on mailing list and IRC, but there is no JIRA issue). And poor old bug #9   which calls for a forgot-my-password page, has been ignored for far too long.

That's all I have for you tonight. Now it's your turn. What features do you think Roller needs most?

FeedDiff for Roller

FeedDiff for Roller 09/25/2004 07:20 PM
Yesterday, I had lunch with Dave Johnson.  He asked me how hard would it be to add support for the &lt;a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3229.txt"&gt;RFC 3229&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://bobwyman.pubsub.com/main/2004/09/using_rfc3229_w.html"&am p;gt; "feed" instance manipulation method&lt;/a&gt; to Roller.  I said that I would take a look into it. ...

Roller is nofollowing along

Roller is nofollowing along 02/01/2005 10:02 PM

I added nofollow attributes to all links displayed from incoming comments, referrers, and trackbacks to Roller today. This fix and a couple of others will be included in a Roller 1.0.1 release sometime next week.

encryption-roller

encryption-roller 11/13/2003 02:56 PM
new features that will be included in 0.1.8

Solar Roller

Solar Roller 08/30/2004 10:33 AM
Dave Johnson: It's official. Roller is now my full time job. I just accepted a job with Sun Microsystems to "design, develop, and deploy the primary blogging system for Sun in conjunction with other engineers" and to evangelize blogging both inside and outside of Sun.

Pixel Roller

Pixel Roller 03/22/2005 04:46 PM

More goods from the Interaction Design WORK IN PROGRESS show manifest in the Pixel Roller, by Stuart Wood and Florian Ortkrass.

It can be viewed like a hand printer, the pixel roller can roll out any image, video or text manually, at any speed or direction, round corners and over surfaces. ... The pixels are in the form of a series of 12 ultra bright UV LEDs situated along its axis. These UV LEDs excite phosphorescent ink and leave trails of pixels that fade with time.

They're working on a paint version as well, which will let you use inks to paint any surface directly and watch them glow. The project page has a video gallery so you can see the Pixel Roller in action.

Project Page [rAndom via WMMNA< /a>]
Earlier WIP: Emergency Keyboard Airbag [Gizmodo]

Mobl0gging Roller.

Mobl0gging Roller. 03/11/2003 09:43 AM

Matt Raible has successfully tested Russell Beattie's world-fa mous ManyWhere Moblogger with Roller.

Dice Roller

Dice Roller 05/27/2004 09:27 AM
Dice Roller 1.0 Released

First Planet Roller win

First Planet Roller win 03/14/2005 04:49 PM

Planet SST has converted from PlanetPlanet to Planet Roller. OK, so "Students and former students of the Hasso-Plattner-Institute" is not a big planet, but it is a start.

IBM bl0gging with Roller

IBM bl0gging with Roller 03/14/2005 04:48 PM

I'm not sure how many of the reported 2,800 internal blogs at IBM are running Roller, but it's pretty clear that the blog in the screenshot is a Roller based blog. I've heard from multiple sources that they're running a forked version of Roller (looks to me like circa 0.9.7). It's time to upgrade to 1.0 guys and join the fun on the Roller dev-list. We'd love to see your mods.

Roller 1.0 status

Roller 1.0 status 12/29/2004 11:21 AM

I'm doing what I can to help folks with Roller 1.0RC2 issues this week, but I'm not doing any substantial work on Roller. I'm using the Winter break to work full-time on Blogs, Wikis, and Feeds in Action, so the 1.0 release will have to wait until the new year. The good news is, although there are some bug reports rolling in (pun always intended), Roller 1.0 has been running very well at blogs.sun.com.

PDP-8/E Simulator 1.5

PDP-8/E Simulator 1.5 02/10/2004 09:18 PM
A Simulator for the DEC PDP-8/E Minicomputer.

Roller 1.0 goes live at bl0gs.sun.com

Roller 1.0 goes live at bl0gs.sun.com 12/22/2004 01:24 AM

We made the cut-over to Roller 1.0 (actually 1.0RC2) at blogs.sun.com today. We had some minor glitches, but overall the upgrade went pretty smoothly after we flipped the switch and started directing traffic to the new server.

Roller 1.0 RC2 is out (with JCaptcha
integration)

Roller 1.0 RC2 is out (with JCaptcha
integration) 12/22/2004 01:24 AM

The full Roller 1.0RC2 announcement can be found on the Roller project blog. In addition to lots of bug fixes, we also added a new JCaptcha based comment authenticator. I've got it running on this site if you'd like to try it out.

JCaptcha integration was really easy because JCaptcha developer Marc-Antoine Garrigue did all the work. He implemented the Roller CommentAuthenticator interface and documented the integration process. Now all you have to do to enable CAPTCHA support in Roller is to uncomment a line in Roller's web.xml file. Thanks Marc-Antoine.

Roller 1.0 is very, very close, possibly only a day or two away. I'm still fighting a mysterious bug that is preventing Firefox 1.0 browsers from logging into my test server. We use Apache mod_rewrite to rewrite the blogs.sun.com URLS, so we can have http://blogs.sun.com/<username> redirect to http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/<username>. For some reason, this prevents Firefox 1.0 from logging in (via standard Servlet Authentication). All other browsers work fine and if I turn off mod_rewrite Firefox 1.0 works too.

Are Roller Coasters Safe?

Are Roller Coasters Safe? 07/12/2004 09:04 AM
The latest coaster accident in Disneyland has some wondering if park attractions are no longer safe.

Roller bookmark bookmarklet

Roller bookmark bookmarklet 03/22/2005 05:09 PM

Lars Trieloff has created a very nice bookmarklet that makes it easy to add bookmarks to Roller's bookmark manager. I've tried it and works. It and captures both the URL of the page you are currently on, as well as the newsfeed URL (if the page includes the autodiscovery tags). Read more here: Roller bookmark bookmarklet

Levels of Roller Customization

Levels of Roller Customization 02/01/2005 10:02 PM

Junkfood has a nice summary of the different levels of Roller customization and the documentation you need to do customization. He writes "Roller is poorly documented" and he's right. I haven't updated the user guide since 0.9.8 and the macro reference, which is auto-generated from tags in the Velocity code just doesn't cut it. I'm working on user and install docs now. Next up are the customization docs.

Here are Junkfood's levels of Roller customization:

1. Edit CSS stylesheets to customize styles.
2. Edit page templates to add/delete/move page elements and Roller macros.
3. Select different theme packages to get different base page templates and CSS stylesheets.
4. Create and use new macros.
5. Override existing Roller macros.
6. Change Roller configuration and installation.
7. Change Apache configuration.
8. Edit Roller source code.

Anil's new Roller plugins

Anil's new Roller plugins 02/05/2005 10:08 PM

Anil has put together a couple of Roller plug ins for Google links and Technorati tags. He has also set up his very own wiki.

Configurable pings for Roller?

Configurable pings for Roller? 03/31/2005 08:04 PM

Currently, a Roller user can ask Roller to "ping" weblogs.com when a new post is made. That was a nice feature back in the day, but in modern times there are many different ping targets. Some users might prefer to ping Javablogs.com, while others might prefer to ping Technorati. Some might even want to configure a different ping target for each weblog category.

Anil Gangolli has written a proposal for configurable pings in Roller and has asked for comments. If you're interested in joining the discussion you can join the Roller dev mailing list, comment in the wiki (write me for a login), or if you're really lazy leave a comment here.

HTTPS logins in Roller 1.0

HTTPS logins in Roller 1.0 02/05/2005 10:07 PM

I just wrote up some instructions for configuring Secure Logins for Roller 1.0.

I had to make one minor change in Roller 1.0's Secure Login feature. I found that, when Roller is running behind a web switch, I can't rely on request.isSecure() to tell me if I have an HTTPS connection. I had to add an (optional) request header test. In my case, I have to test for a header named X-SSL to determine if HTTPS is active.

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