Rotation Reassessed as Toll Spikes (washingtonpost.com)

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Disaster's Toll Surpasses 58,000
(washingtonpost.com)

Disaster's Toll Surpasses 58,000
(washingtonpost.com) 12/29/2004 01:41 AM
washingtonpost.com - JAKARTA, Indonesia, Dec. 29 -- Rescuers battled to reach survivors in stranded villages, restore basic services and prevent the outbreak of deadly diseases across South Asia on Tuesday in the aftermath of a massive undersea earthquake and subsequent tsunami that ravaged the region.

Toll From Tsunami Rises Above 23,000
(washingtonpost.com)

Toll From Tsunami Rises Above 23,000
(washingtonpost.com) 12/28/2004 01:09 AM
washingtonpost.com - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Dec. 27 -- Devastated coastal areas across South Asia struggled Monday to prevent hunger and outbreaks of disease as dazed survivors searched desperately for the missing a day after a tsunami surged across the region. The death toll rose to more than 23,000, almost half of them on this island nation in the Indian Ocean.

Heavy Insurgent Toll in Iraq
(washingtonpost.com)

Heavy Insurgent Toll in Iraq
(washingtonpost.com) 03/23/2005 11:05 PM
washingtonpost.com - BAGHDAD, March 23 -- An Iraqi official said Wednesday that 85 insurgents were killed on Tuesday when Iraqi commandos, assisted by U.S. air and ground support, staged a midday attack on a suspected training camp in a rural area northwest of the capital.

U.S. Toll in Iraq Crosses 1,000
Milestone (washingtonpost.com)

U.S. Toll in Iraq Crosses 1,000
Milestone (washingtonpost.com) 09/07/2004 11:49 PM
washingtonpost.com - The number of soldiers and Pentagon civilians who have died in Iraq topped the 1,000 mark yesterday, and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld declared that the insurgency is likely to turn even more violent in coming months as the fledgling nation heads toward democratic elections.

Lessons of Calif.'s Toll Lanes
(washingtonpost.com)

Lessons of Calif.'s Toll Lanes
(washingtonpost.com) 06/22/2005 02:56 AM
washingtonpost.com - ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Howard Gottesman jumped onto the Route 91 Express Lanes the day they opened in 1995. For a mere $2.50, the property manager and father of two could veer off one of Southern California's most congested freeways and zip home on the private new toll road that paralleled it. Some days, it nearly cut his evening commute to Corona in half.

U.S. Troops in Iraq See Highest Injury
Toll Yet (washingtonpost.com)

U.S. Troops in Iraq See Highest Injury
Toll Yet (washingtonpost.com) 09/05/2004 07:26 AM
washingtonpost.com - BAGHDAD, Sept. 4 -- About 1,100 U.S. soldiers and Marines were wounded in Iraq during August, by far the highest combat injury toll for any month since the war began and an indication of the intensity of battles flaring in urban areas.

Homes reassessed for council tax

Homes reassessed for council tax 03/31/2005 11:10 PM
The value of every house in England is being reassessed from Friday to calculate new council tax payments.

Managing Traffic Spikes

Managing Traffic Spikes 10/09/2002 05:41 AM
WebTechniques Oct 9 2002 4:13AM ET

Managing Traffic Spikes

Managing Traffic Spikes 10/11/2002 07:56 AM
WebTechniques Oct 9 2002 4:13AM ET

RSS Traffic Spikes Becoming a Concern

RSS Traffic Spikes Becoming a Concern 07/20/2004 12:45 PM
"Our hourly RSS surge has all the characteristics of a distributed DoS attack, and although the requests are legitimate and small, the sheer number of requests in that short time period creates some aggravating scaling issues.""

Illegal entry from Mexico to U.S. spikes

Illegal entry from Mexico to U.S. spikes 04/27/2004 05:18 PM

Illegal Entry From Mexico to U.S. Spikes
(AP)

Illegal Entry From Mexico to U.S. Spikes
(AP) 04/27/2004 02:40 PM
AP - After a four-year decline, illegal immigration from Mexico is spiking as several thousand migrants a day rush across the border in hopes of getting work visas under a program President Bush proposed. Many also are trying to beat tighter security to come in June.

Infographic of bl0gosphere traffic
spikes

Infographic of bl0gosphere traffic
spikes 03/22/2005 05:00 PM
Xeni Jardin: My blog-mate David Pescovitz and I were interviewed for a Sydney Morning Herald story about the Bloggies (Boing Boing was among this year's winners). A nifty infographic ran along with the story. It's based on Technorati data, and points to some of the events/memes which led to the greatest spikes in blog traffic from 2004-2005. You know something's wrong with the online world when "Kryptonite Lock Controversy" inspires roughly the same amount of posts per day as "Indian Ocean Tsunami," though there may be more to the data than meets the eye.
Link to story (subscription required, user name "boingboingdotnet" password "boingboing")

Update: On his blog, Boing Boing reader Tim Jarrett offers one possible explanation for the Kryptonite-versus-Tsunami data oddity:

I say: it’s not the absolute size of the spike, it’s how it relates to its surroundings. (Uh, bow chicka chicka bow bow.) Based on my experience interpreting online traffic, the metric of merit when comparing two events isn’t absolute amount of traffic (posts, page views, unique users) but the delta they cause from the normal volume of activity. Look at the time period around “Kryptonite lock controversy”—the spike, while high, is part of a consistently high series of spikes that appears to run from July through shortly after the election. In other words, not dramatic, considering the overall blogosphere activity at that time.

The tsunami, on the other hand, reached the same peak of activity in the middle of a seasonal down period in blog posts—in fact, as I recall, a seasonal down period for Internet activity as a whole. In other words, it’s a hell of a lot more impressive that a bunch of bloggers got off their haunches after the holidays to post about the tsunami—when they weren’t inclined to blog—than that they posted in a period of otherwise high post activity.

NYTimes Teen Mag Spikes Story On Why
Downloading Isn't Stealing

NYTimes Teen Mag Spikes Story On Why
Downloading Isn't Stealing 01/09/2004 09:50 PM
I have no idea the full details behind the story, but The New York Times Upfront, which is apparently a NY Times produced magazine for teens, had asked Aaron Swartz to write a "counterpoint" story on downloading music. Aaron wrote up a short piece entitled "Downloading Isn't Stealing" and the NY Times decided not to run it. Aaron claims that the reason they gave him was "the Times had decided not to tell kids to break the law." Aaron has decided to go ahead and publish the piece himself. While I agree with the premise (as has been discussed to death on this site), I don't necessarily agree with the specifics of his argument. Downloading might be copyright infringement, but it's clearly not theft (even the Supreme Court has said so). What's more interesting to me is why the magazine spiked the piece. I'm not sure if folks at Upfront have a different explanation for why they spiked the piece - but if it is the reason Aaron gives, then that's pretty sad, and suggests that we're not teaching kids these days to understand the complexity of issues, but prefer to brainwa sh kids with simple (but untrue) maxims. I guess this isn't a huge surprise, but you can always hope.

Rambus stock spikes on Micron plea
reports

Rambus stock spikes on Micron plea
reports 12/31/2003 04:52 PM
Shares in the chipmaker rise on high volume following news reports of a possible plea deal between rival Micron and government investigators over price-fixing allegations.

Federer Spikes Roddick's Guns for
Wimbledon Glory

Federer Spikes Roddick's Guns for
Wimbledon Glory 07/04/2004 06:56 PM
Reuters via Wired News Jul 4 2004 10:43PM GMT

Ad-Rotation in JavaScript

Ad-Rotation in JavaScript 01/16/2004 11:31 AM
Ad-Rotation is widespread and important for many sites, such as those that offer free services. In this article, you'll learn how to generate random advertisements in JavaScript, and explore some other features along the way. By Jonathan Fenocchi. 0114

Daily Rotation

Daily Rotation 06/01/2004 05:29 AM
Daily Rotation
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Random Image Rotation

Random Image Rotation 01/07/2004 07:10 PM
Readers return to sites that appear fresh and new on each visit. On a news site, magazine, or blog, stories or headlines will be updated frequently. But how can static sites keep that fresh feeling? Dan Benjamin's free image randomizer may do the trick, and you needn't be a programmer to install it.

DotGeek: Restriction and Rotation

DotGeek: Restriction and Rotation 02/12/2004 10:10 AM
In two new tutorials from DotGeek.org this morning, they cover the creation of site access restriction methods, and how to simply use the coordinates of and object's center point for positioning inside a GD2 image.

Automatic Ad-Rotation in JavaScript

Automatic Ad-Rotation in JavaScript 12/17/2004 06:34 PM
In an earlier article, the author wrote about how use JavaScript to display random advertisements when the page loads. To complement that article, he now focuses on rotating the ads in random order, over a period of time without reloading the page. By Jonathan Fenocchi. 1104

Apple puts new iPod ad in rotation

Apple puts new iPod ad in rotation 11/14/2003 08:02 AM
If you were watching prime-time television on Thursday night, you may have spotted a new advertisement for the Apple iPod. The new ad has also been posted to Apple's Web site.

FILM ROTATION: SIN CITY Comparisons

FILM ROTATION: SIN CITY Comparisons 04/04/2005 06:57 AM
Can't wait to see Jessica Alba ridding .. Comparisons between the comic and the movie .. side by side Sin City film/book comparisons .. Sin City Comic-to-Screen Comparison .. Scene by scene comparison

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Quake may have altered Earth's rotation

Quake may have altered Earth's rotation 12/28/2004 11:11 PM
ZDNet Dec 29 2004 3:19AM GMT

10.3: A heads-up on Apache log file
rotation

10.3: A heads-up on Apache log file
rotation 12/14/2003 02:19 AM
Since installing 10.3, I noticed that my Apache logs were being rotated weekly in the early hours of Saturday morning. Worse still, each week, instead of renaming .0.gz to .1.gz, the files were being deleted, losing the log f...

Random Content Rotation Made Easy

Random Content Rotation Made Easy 01/27/2004 08:39 PM
WebmasterBase Jan 28 2004 0:04AM GMT

U.S. Prepares for Risky Iraq Troop
Rotation

U.S. Prepares for Risky Iraq Troop
Rotation 01/01/2004 11:04 AM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 1 2004 9:35AM ET

Quake Changes Earth's Rotation, Moves
Islands

Quake Changes Earth's Rotation, Moves
Islands 12/29/2004 09:44 AM

Relief Crew Blasts Off for Next Rotation
at Space Station

Relief Crew Blasts Off for Next Rotation
at Space Station 04/19/2004 05:41 PM
A Russian rocket roared into space carrying astronauts from the U.S., Russia and the Netherlands to the international space station.

GLSA: rsync.gentoo.org rotation server
compromised (200312-01)

GLSA: rsync.gentoo.org rotation server
compromised (200312-01) 12/03/2003 03:51 PM
Daniel Robbins (Dec 03 2003)

The Army Is Expanding What It Calls A
"Stop Loss" Order To Keep Soldiers In
Uniform - Even Those Who Have Met Their
Contractual Service Obligation Or Are
Scheduled To Retire - During A Rotation
Of Tens Of Thousands Of Troops That
Begins This Month And Is

The Army Is Expanding What It Calls A
"Stop Loss" Order To Keep Soldiers In
Uniform - Even Those Who Have Met Their
Contractual Service Obligation Or Are
Scheduled To Retire - During A Rotation
Of Tens Of Thousands Of Troops That
Begins This Month And Is 01/06/2004 05:35 AM

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The Toll of a New Machine

The Toll of a New Machine 04/15/2004 02:27 PM
It started with ATMs. Then gas stations. Now self-service kiosks are taking over airports and invading McDonald's restaurants. Is this the face of the jobless recovery? Or will automation make service better for workers and customers alike?

"taking its toll "

"taking its toll " 06/12/2004 10:08 PM

Second toll motorway planned

Second toll motorway planned 07/06/2004 03:04 AM
The government is planning to build a new 50-mile M6 toll road linking Birmingham and Manchester, the BBC learns.

MPs rap UN over Darfur death toll

MPs rap UN over Darfur death toll 03/29/2005 08:37 PM
UK MPs put the death toll from Sudan's Darfur crisis at 300,000 - four times the WHO estimate.

Nukes Still Take Toll on Workers

Nukes Still Take Toll on Workers 08/11/2004 04:52 AM
Workers who made the U.S. nuclear arsenal handled many dangerous materials, but one was largely overlooked -- beryllium. Now the DOE is trying to track down those who may have been exposed. First of a two-part series by John Gartner.

Competition To Take Toll On DoCoMo

Competition To Take Toll On DoCoMo 05/07/2004 04:16 PM
The Feature May 7 2004 7:31PM GMT

Indonesia Says Death Toll Now Over
94,000 (AP)

Indonesia Says Death Toll Now Over
94,000 (AP) 01/02/2005 11:28 PM
AP - Indonesia increased its death toll from last week's devastating earthquake and tsunamis to 94,081 on Monday, raising the total number of people reported killed in 11 countries in the Indian Ocean basin to at least 137,321. Aid agencies have said the death toll was expected to hit 150,000.

Second toll motorway to be built

Second toll motorway to be built 07/05/2004 07:12 PM
The government is set to announce plans to build a new M6 toll road linking Birmingham to Manchester.
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