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Truck Carrying Monkey Waste Spills on
Road (AP)

Truck Carrying Monkey Waste Spills on
Road (AP) 05/04/2004 03:14 PM
AP - Some monkey business tied up traffic at midday Tuesday at Milwaukee's Zoo Interchange.

Fatman Adventures 2: Underground
Adventures Has Been Released

Fatman Adventures 2: Underground
Adventures Has Been Released 03/14/2005 05:55 PM
Highly addictive exciting platform arcade. [PRWEB Mar 12, 2005]

Jon Udell: Extreme design versus extreme
programming

Jon Udell: Extreme design versus extreme
programming 06/18/2002 08:16 AM
I've just returned from the What's Next conference in Brattleboro, Vermont, where I gave a pair of talks (one on web services, one on application servers). The keynote speaker for the day was Alan Cooper, designer of Visual Basic, author of several books, and founder of a company that specializes in interaction design.

Cooper's view is that the kinds of disasters that have always plagued the industry -- most recently, the catastrophic outcomes of many CRM (customer relationship management) systems -- are a result neither of poor strategy, nor of poor engineering, but of a failure to properly coordinate the two. The missing piece in his view is product planning and design, done according to a methodology that Cooper has devised and that his company practices. This methodology aligns itself with Colonel John Boyd's OODA (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) loop, fashionable in military circles.

"zeldman.jonboy"

New Lyra Report Examines Acquisition
Fever in Commercial Printer Market: Lyra
Research Studies How Digital Imaging is
Transforming the Commercial Printing
Landscape

New Lyra Report Examines Acquisition
Fever in Commercial Printer Market: Lyra
Research Studies How Digital Imaging is
Transforming the Commercial Printing
Landscape 06/06/2005 12:14 AM
Lyra Research’s new report, "Commercial Printing: An Overview of Production and Wide-Format," is essential reading for vendors in the commercial printing market. The report focuses on key trends in commercial printing, including sharp increases in sales of eco-solvent or mild solvent wide-format printers, declining prices for wide-format devices, and inexpensive Chinese wide-format printer products entering the European and U.S. markets. On the narrow-format side, acquisitions by key players have taken center stage. [PRWEB May 18, 2005]

Adventures in redesigns

Adventures in redesigns 03/13/2003 10:22 AM

So after keeping the same design around for a little over 2 years, I decided it was time for a change. My goals with this design was to accommodate more stuff, but still aim for simple and clean (and also, I was looking for a reason to use Travis Beckham's insanely cool patterns -- background images have been dorky for so long they're cool again).

A couple months ago, I noticed I was writing less than usual, hiking less often, and not taking all that many photos. To force myself to spend more time on those things I decided the next design would reduce the importance of daily blogging, and give other features more prominence. The features area to the right is the same size as the blog area for that reason, and while at the moment there is nothing new there, I'm aiming to either write an article, post a photo essay, interview someone, or do some other feature-sized thing once a week from here on out. I also wanted to get myself back into taking daily photos. I did it through most of the year 2000, and I learned a lot by forcing myself to just do it everyday.

The redesign is only on the front page and the weblog archives for now (which are now Movable Type powered, to boot), but eventually everything else will get converted over, and I might add more stuff to the right side, but I'll try not to make it too portal-like. The whole design is liquid, and I used some CSS tricks to have the photos on the right fill their areas -- the smaller or wider your browser, the less or more you see of the images. The daily photo image is the actual full size photo, just positioned centered as a background (yes, a pointless waste of bandwidth, but easier than thumbnaling and clicking on it to see the full sized version is faster).

While this site isn't quite validating as xhtml strict (the stock Flash code is causing the errors), and I did have to use a table to get a consistent layout of the two sides (floated columns refused to work), I've found a really odd bug. If you're viewing this site in a newer version of Mozilla or mac/IE, you should see a nifty Flash map of the US/World (coded brilliantly by Bryan) showing the places I've been recently, where I am currently, and where I'm heading soon. If you're using Opera, Safari, or win/IE, you won't see anything at all. The map works by itself on a page, and inside a table in all browsers, but for some reason, half the browsers I point at this page don't like it and ignore it. I suppose I'll figure out the problem eventually. If anyone is confused, here is what is supposed to look like (screensh ot 1, screensh ot 2)

One thing's certain: after the past couple days of work on this, I could really use some Extreme, Totally-In-Your-Face, Milk Products™

"adventures of Pete & Rob are here"

"adventures of Pete & Rob are here" 07/05/2004 02:41 PM

Adventures in Cream

Adventures in Cream 11/11/2003 08:07 PM
Ack! Every other pint of heavy whipping cream has this crap called Carrageenan. For some reason, it gives me a headache. Clover could be counted on to deliver a quality product, but it's only available at local Whole Foods stores - one around the corner from my apartment, and the other sits further down the 101. Either they're temporarily out of stock, or they're just not interested in keeping my store in stock. When I went back this afternoon, they had Alta Dena cartons on the shelf - which were previously known to have carried icky preservatives. When I inspected the label, the only ingredient was pure cream. I brewed a pot of coffee to give 'er the taste test, and this is just disgusting. I'm gonna "have to" drive down the road and pray that my brand can be found at the next possible grocery location. I may have to wait until later this evening to leave in order to avoid traffic congestion. I suppose I could call ahead, but... where's the fun in that?...

Adventures in Thinking

Adventures in Thinking 12/19/2004 03:41 PM
Two new articles on big thinkers have turned up. First is an Investor's Business Daily article on Alan Turing's life and imagination. It covers some of the historical aspects of his life as well as touching on cryptography, artificial intelligence, robotics, and brain-mind metaphysics. The summary of Turing's life also conveniently leaves out the more controversial bits and the cause of his death. For a more complete look at Turing's life, see the Wikipedia article. A more recent thinker on similar problems, Ray Kurzweil, is intereviewed by DevSource. Kruzweil discusses reverse-engineering the brain, embedded intelligence, and even has a comment or two about synthesizers.

Adventures in being a bandwidthaholic

Adventures in being a bandwidthaholic 04/15/2004 02:34 AM

I've been sharing a remotely hosted server at Rackshack.net (which became EV1) with friends for over a year now and it's run amazingly well. The account started with 700Gb of montly bandwidth and after the unfortunate SCO license flap, we got upped to 1 terabyte of monthly bandwidth, with seemingly no network speed cap. For the past year, the server's pushed out a couple Gb of bandwidth a day, tops, from all the sites it hosts. Even when I put a bunch of music online last spring, it hardly made a dent.

This month I figured I'd see just how much a terabyte was. It started when I offered to host the Beatallica songs. After a day the bandwidth jumped to 10-15Gb and it was humming along nicely. Then it hit Pitc hfork's news page, and the bandwidth skyrocketed. The box was pushing out 20Mbit/sec and after a a couple days I had to tell the gang to de-link songs as my monthly bandwidth total reached 100Gb just a few days into April.

I was pretty impressed that the box held up ok (after Chris limited the site to 1 download per user) and was amazed at the traffic a site like Pitchfork could generate from a tiny news blurb. I thought to myself "wow, aside from slashdot I couldn't imagine a blog ever generating this kind of traffic and demand for files."

Then Cory linked my 66Mb file of a Jon Stewart interview over at BoingBoing, and it completely blew away the previous bandwidth numbers. In about 12 hours of the link being directed at the box, the network throughput jumped to almost 60Mbit/sec, and it pushed out 131Gb of data in half a day. The box served up all the other sites fine but as I watched my monthly bandwidth allottment reach 40% of the total before the first half of the month was even over, I took it offline and Andy put it up on his tracker, where it is being downloaded like crazy, but off-loaded to everyone's personal connection sharing the load.

Here's a cool graph of the network utilization on a weekly, 30-minute moving average (click to see the full image):

You can see the initial rise from a bunch of blogs linking to Beatallica, then the peak is the pitchfork hit, which subsided after song links were eliminated. Then a few days of relative calm and Boingboing is the huge peak, which only lasted half a day. I grabbed this right after I started redirecting folks to the torrent.

I've learned a few things from these large bandwidth experiments:

- Ridiculous amounts of bandwidth is out there for a cheap price (the server is only $100/month, shared among people using it). If you're paying $30 a month and getting hit with bandwidth overage bills that go into the hundreds of dollars, find a friend that knows some linux server administration, get one of these leased boxes, and never worry about bandwidth again.

- A thousand gigabytes is a ton of bandwidth and it's nice to have around when you want to share large files with friends or the general public. I host my ten years site there and don't really care about the size of photos or the number of people pulling down the RSS feeds with large images embedded.

- That said, when you get hit with a huge amount of traffic, bandwidth is still going to be a problem. Most colocation hosts cap your line at 10Mbit/sec and I was surprised to see the box creeping up near 60Mbit/sec yesterday. It's still a problem to host one giant file for a ton of people, even with an absurd amount of bandwidth available to you. Bittorrent is the savior here, Andy tells me even though he seeds all the files on his server (which means the original file's still on his server being downloaded if no one else is sharing it), his bandwidth is a fraction of what it'd be if it was just a direct download. The best part is the more popular the file (like the boingboing traffic hit), the more people download it from each other instead of your server.

- Setting up your own bittorrent server still a pain in the butt. This needs to be as difficult as setting up apache on a windows desktop. I want to see a BT server exe I click, install, then seed files easily using a web or desktop front-end (yay! Andy sent this and this). Or make an apache module. Also, build BT support into Mozilla, right now. BT is a great technology that solves a fundamental problem we all face everyday, but we have to walk people through how to download the clients first. In some of the data I saw on the Lessig book downloads, only about 5% of users opted to use BT to download, the rest just got it off the server directly. We need more regular folks using BT, by having it built into browsers.

Underworld Adventures 0.9

Underworld Adventures 0.9 04/10/2004 03:18 PM
A project to recreate Ultima Underworld 1.

Adventures in Linux

Adventures in Linux 12/18/2002 03:10 PM
About a month ago, I started whipping my VMWare'd Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 into shape for Python / PyQt / Zaurus...

3G: Adventures In Compelling Content -
Pt 3

3G: Adventures In Compelling Content -
Pt 3 03/19/2005 03:02 AM
Digital Lifestyles Mar 18 2005 8:35PM GMT

Adventures in Garbage Collecting

Adventures in Garbage Collecting 04/09/2004 04:10 PM
One of the nice things about being within driving distance of people who're phenomenally smarter than you are is that you sometimes get the benefits of their research. (Though Citeseer's darned nice too) For the interested, there's a seminar on garbage collection at MIT on Monday April 5th 2004. The announcement follows: "A (Grand?) Unified Theory of Storage Reclamation"Speaker: David F. BaconHost: Professor Martin RinardHost Affiliation: Computer Architecture Group Date: 4-5-2004Time: 3:30 PM - 5:00 PMRefreshments: 3:15 PMLocation: Gates 7th Floor Lounge The two basic forms of automatic storage reclamation, tracing and reference counting, were invented at the dawn of...

The Adventures of Brandywine &
Baldwin 0-0-3

The Adventures of Brandywine &
Baldwin 0-0-3 08/05/2004 08:29 AM
An adventure game of two heroes.

Teddy Adventures 3D has been released!

Teddy Adventures 3D has been released! 09/26/2004 05:30 AM
A 3D remake of the classic arcade game. [PRWEB Sep 26, 2004]

Adventures In Broadband Video

Adventures In Broadband Video 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
If most of your remote workers use Macs, then look no further [than iSight]. However, on a mixed network, the camera will work well for the Mac users, but quality will decline a bit when they use other software to videoconference. By Keith Shaw (NWFusion via MyAppleMenu)

Yahoo's Adventures In Search

Yahoo's Adventures In Search 04/10/2005 07:26 AM
San Jose Mercury News Apr 10 2005 11:35AM GMT

Fatman Adventures Has Been Released

Fatman Adventures Has Been Released 02/01/2005 10:01 PM
Highly addictive exciting platform arcade. [PRWEB Jan 8, 2005]

SXSW 2005 adventures

SXSW 2005 adventures 03/19/2005 02:37 AM

I'm on the plane back to NYC from what was my fifth SXSW. I hadn't been for a couple of years and it was good (and a little weird) to be back. Some thoughts, in rough chronological order:

Best panels I attended: tie between Jason Fried's How to Make Big Things Happen with Small Teams and Malcolm Gladwell's keynote. Having read Blink and seen him speak on it twice before, there was nothing much new in Malcolm's talk, but he's a fantastic speaker...knows his shit cold, didn't utter a single "um" or "like", could make the phone book seem interesting, but doesn't have to caper about the stage to be compelling.

Everyone was nice. Well, there was that one guy who was an asshole, but I think everyone pretty much ignored him. But everyone else, so nice to get to meet you or see you again.

Overheard in the hallway: "no woman who knows that much about CSS should be that good looking", "here's how I met Marc Canter for the first time: I'm standing outside at a conference, he comes up beside me and farts", "I have no idea who you are", "surf the glue", "no one will get naked in the hot tub with me", and "Ima gine Malcolm Gladwell...with breasts. That's how busy it will be."

My two panels sandwiched the keynote conversation between Bruce Sterling and Alex Steffen, so I was only able to catch about 20 minutes of it. But that was long enough to hear Bruce talking about smoking his shoes. LOL for reals.

BBQ! BBQ! In what could be a record for a bunch of folks who can't pay attention to any particular thing for more than 10 minutes at a time, fifteen of us waited an hour and a half for a table at Stubb's (cool menu pictured at right). I can't speak for the rest, but my beef brisket was worth the wait. As a bonus, Kathryn accidentally walked away with the primary object of our obsession during our 90 minute wait, the buzzing/blinking table-readiness notification coaster. I'm sure said coaster will be a treasured guest at many SXSWs to come.

Bruce Sterling's not-house party didn't really get crackin' until the geeks descended on the Zoob toys. The photo evidence pretty much speaks for itself here.

Ben Brown, because he asked me to. Many, many times. Ben, I expect you to comply with the terms of the restraining order from this point forward.

And finally, I'm at the airport ready to leave just after getting through security and I hear, "your attention please, Jason Kottke to security check 3 for a lost item pickup". Bag, check; rollie, check; coat, check; phone and wallet, safely stowed in the zipper pocket of my bag. What the heck could they have found and how on earth do they know it's mine? I zipped over the security check point and was waved over by a friendly/stern police officer. "You Jason?" "Yep." He holds up my wallet, which I swear on a stack of The Origin of Species was in my bag. "Holy crap," I said. "And that's not the worst part," he says with the most serious look I've ever seen on anyone's face.

Uh oh, I feel a full body cavity search coming on.

He pulls out my social security card and lectures me for two minutes on how I shouldn't be carrying it because it's all someone needs to steal my identity. Relieved that I'm not about to be hauled into a tiny windowless room for interrogation, I'm sort of chuckling at this point, which he takes to mean I don't believe him about the SS card. "Do you see me looking you right in the eye, son? That's how serious I am about this." Mr. Sir, as soon as I'm home, I'm taking my SS card out of my wallet and putting it in the safest place I can...right after I change into some clean underwear.

Yet more adventures in court for Novell

Yet more adventures in court for Novell 06/24/2005 08:54 PM
Is the glass half empty or half full? Nowhere was this better illustrated than in the news stories about Novell's adventures in court last week. U.S. District Judge Frederick Motz ruled on motions in the company's suit against Microsoft concerning Novell's anti-trust claims related to its ownership of WordPerfect between June 1994 and March 1996.

Mike and Daniel's Adventures in C#

Mike and Daniel's Adventures in C# 03/13/2003 10:22 AM
"Daniel" and I get some good programming done last night. We have been pairing up the past few weeks to work on some type of project. After a few weeks of what can only be called "Spikes", we settled in and are beginning to get some real user stories mapped out and some code written to fulfill them. Daniel chronicled the session below. Daniel and I are a good Pairing team and we go back a long way which helps. But it can also lead to unwanted sidetracks. Last night we stayed focused and didn't stray too far from the chosen path. Onward! Source: Archipelago

The daily adventures of mixerman are
back

The daily adventures of mixerman are
back 08/12/2004 12:59 PM
The daily adventures of mixerman are back. Mixerman has started posting a new set of diary entries about his recording sessions with an anonymous band. His original diary (discussed here) is now available in hardcover.

Calpundit: Adventures in Forensic
Journalism

Calpundit: Adventures in Forensic
Journalism 02/16/2004 04:08 PM
Calpundit's excellent post on the Col. Burkett allegations .. Kevin Drum .. defense

calpundit.com/archives/003280.html
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Fatman Adventures 3: Around the World
Has Been Released

Fatman Adventures 3: Around the World
Has Been Released 06/05/2005 10:52 PM
Highly addictive exciting platform arcade. [PRWEB May 30, 2005]

Stories of Krishna: The Adventures of a
Hindu God

Stories of Krishna: The Adventures of a
Hindu God 11/14/2003 08:04 AM
Stories of Krishna: The Adventures of a Hindu God is a lovely interactive Flash presentation from the Seattle Art Museum: Click an image and hear the accompanying tale (or read the transcript), then click "close the story" and mouse over the image icons to explore the characters and view details. After you are finished you can test what you've learned with a drag and drop card game. No broadband? View images of Krishna here and he re, and read some background.

The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the
21st Century

The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the
21st Century 12/24/2003 06:32 AM
The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century .. Accordion Guy (Joey De Villa) .. accordian dude .. Joey

accordionguy.blogware.com/blog
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Clone Wars Adventures Interview

Clone Wars Adventures Interview 02/12/2004 10:01 AM
Dark Horse has added an interview with Clone Wars Adventures writer Haden Blackman, revealing details on the animated-style comic book series. Check out the secrets behind the upcoming series by clicking here.

The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords
Adventures (GCN) Review

The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords
Adventures (GCN) Review 06/28/2004 08:08 PM
G4 Tech TV Jun 28 2004 11:46PM GMT

Adventures of an Open Proxy Server -
LURHQ

Adventures of an Open Proxy Server -
LURHQ 01/07/2004 02:34 PM
Via Joat.... Adventures of an Open Proxy Server Abstract This paper discusses the abuse of misconfigured HTTP proxy servers, taking a detailed look at the types of traffic that flow through this underground network. Also discussed is the use of a "honeyproxy", a server designed to look like a misconfigured HTTP proxy. Using such a tool we can spy on the Internet underground without the need for a full-blown honeypot.

John Carmack's cell phone adventures

John Carmack's cell phone adventures 03/30/2005 03:18 AM
John Carmack decides to code a Java game for his new cell phone just for fun and writes about the problems he had with J2ME while doing so.

are you the question answerer? -
Adventures in AOL Instant Messenger

are you the question answerer? -
Adventures in AOL Instant Messenger 11/15/2003 06:40 AM
Sylloge meets SweetRoxy215 .. brilliant

sylloge.com/misc_bin/SweetRoxy215.html
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Go fishin' for Tim Burton's big,
fanciful adventures (USATODAY.com)

Go fishin' for Tim Burton's big,
fanciful adventures (USATODAY.com) 04/27/2004 06:02 AM
USATODAY.com - Tim Burton's Big Fish, which arrives on DVD today, is a good example of what the best Burton movies bring: fanciful stories, imaginative casting that's heavy on showmanship and bright design (unless gloom, doom or noir is built into the equation, as in Batman or Ed Wood). Fish is one of my favorites. For three more, see:

Truck You!

Truck You! 11/20/2002 10:40 AM
My brother put the new battery in my truck tonight, so my truck is finally fixed after the brakeline was replaced last weekend. I'll miss

The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the
21st Century :: Almost 30 years later,
and I still don't belong

The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the
21st Century :: Almost 30 years later,
and I still don't belong 05/29/2004 06:08 PM
Canadian identity

accordionguy.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2004/5/26/76351.ht ml
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Bushisms - Adventures in George W.
Bushspeak - Updated Frequently

Bushisms - Adventures in George W.
Bushspeak - Updated Frequently 07/15/2004 01:50 PM
Adventures in George W. Bushspeak - Updated Frequently .. bushisms (about.com) .. Bush is an idiot .. PseudoPresident .. real words [>] .. fumbles .. Bushims .. to be

politicalhumor.about.com/library/blbushisms.htm
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"The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the
21st Century :: Almost 30 years later,
and I still don't belo"

"The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the
21st Century :: Almost 30 years later,
and I still don't belo" 05/29/2004 04:47 PM

Game Room: Dora the Explorer Animal
Adventures

Game Room: Dora the Explorer Animal
Adventures 06/17/2005 04:33 PM
Peter Cohen shifts gears with a review of Dora the Explorer Animal Adventures, a game aimed at young kids.

Adventures in Email: Biotron Cell Chip
Cover

Adventures in Email: Biotron Cell Chip
Cover 09/13/2004 07:22 AM

Every day, I take bullets for you people. Granted, they're not real bullets - they're usually made of email - but I take them anyway. I've decided, though, that I've pretty much had enough, and I'm going to start passing them on to you guys. I think it was the guy who compared me to a Grand Wizard of the KKK because I implied that WebTV/MSNtv users might be on the old side who sent me over the edge.

Now we have this great new product, guaranteed, it was said, to be a great story for Gizmodo. I don't think he knew how right he was - we love products that are developed by "German Scientist," especially when they "reprogram transversal and longitudinal waves of Electromagnetic fields (EMFs) from cell-phones."

Full spam pie after the jump.

Truck Wars

Truck Wars 06/02/2004 05:29 AM
The nation's package-delivery giants are racing to test and adopt cleaner engine technologies. Here's how their fleets compare.
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