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Fatman Adventures 2: Underground
Adventures Has Been Released
Fatman Adventures 2: Underground
Adventures Has Been Released
03/14/2005 05:55 PMHighly addictive exciting platform arcade. [PRWEB Mar 12, 2005]
Dark Horse Comics Star Wars:
Underworld Cover Gallery
Dark Horse Comics Star Wars:
Underworld Cover Gallery
12/12/2003 10:26 AMOur
Dark Horse
Comics cover gallery is updated today with a series that takes a
look at that other dark side of the galaxy.
Underworld
- The Yavin Vassilika features the galaxy's bounty hunters,
smugglers, and scoundrels as they compete against each other for a
fabled prize for the Hutts. But can the assembled cast of characters
hold off from killing one another in order to claim the prize?
Adventures in Linux
Adventures in Linux
12/18/2002 03:10 PMAbout a month ago, I started whipping my VMWare'd Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
into shape for Python / PyQt / Zaurus...
Adventures in being a bandwidthaholic
Adventures in being a bandwidthaholic
04/15/2004 02:34 AMI'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.
"adventures of Pete & Rob are here"
"adventures of Pete & Rob are here"
07/05/2004 02:41 PMAdventures in Thinking
Adventures in Thinking
12/19/2004 03:41 PMTwo 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 redesigns
Adventures in redesigns
03/13/2003 10:22 AMSo 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 in Cream
Adventures in Cream
11/11/2003 08:07 PMAck! 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?...
Fatman Adventures Has Been Released
Fatman Adventures Has Been Released
02/01/2005 10:01 PMHighly addictive exciting platform arcade. [PRWEB Jan 8, 2005]
Yet more adventures in court for Novell
Yet more adventures in court for Novell
06/24/2005 08:54 PMIs 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.
Teddy Adventures 3D has been released!
Teddy Adventures 3D has been released!
09/26/2004 05:30 AMA 3D remake of the classic arcade game. [PRWEB Sep 26, 2004]
The Adventures of Brandywine &
Baldwin 0-0-3
The Adventures of Brandywine &
Baldwin 0-0-3
08/05/2004 08:29 AMAn adventure game of two heroes.
3G: Adventures In Compelling Content -
Pt 3
3G: Adventures In Compelling Content -
Pt 3
03/19/2005 03:02 AMDigital Lifestyles Mar 18 2005 8:35PM GMT
SXSW 2005 adventures
SXSW 2005 adventures
03/19/2005 02:37 AMI'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.
Yahoo's Adventures In Search
Yahoo's Adventures In Search
04/10/2005 07:26 AMSan Jose Mercury News Apr 10 2005 11:35AM GMT
Adventures in Garbage Collecting
Adventures in Garbage Collecting
04/09/2004 04:10 PMOne 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...
Adventures In Broadband Video
Adventures In Broadband Video
10/28/2003 11:06 PMIf 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)
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:
ArchipelagoThe 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.
Fatman Adventures 3: Around the World
Has Been Released
Fatman Adventures 3: Around the World
Has Been Released
06/05/2005 10:52 PMHighly addictive exciting platform arcade. [PRWEB May 30, 2005]
Calpundit: Adventures in Forensic
Journalism
Calpundit: Adventures in Forensic
Journalism
02/16/2004 04:08 PMCalpundit's excellent post on the Col. Burkett allegations .. Kevin
Drum .. defense
calpundit.com/archives/003280.html
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Clone Wars Adventures Interview
Clone Wars Adventures Interview
02/12/2004 10:01 AMDark 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 Adventures of Accordion Guy in the
21st Century
The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the
21st Century
12/24/2003 06:32 AMThe Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century .. Accordion Guy
(Joey De Villa) .. accordian dude ..
Joey
accordionguy.blogware.com/blog
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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 Legend of Zelda: Four Swords
Adventures (GCN) Review
The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords
Adventures (GCN) Review
06/28/2004 08:08 PMG4 Tech TV Jun 28 2004 11:46PM GMT
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 AMSylloge 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 AMUSATODAY.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:
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 AMJohn 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.
Commercial Extreme Truck: Adventures in
Waste
Commercial Extreme Truck: Adventures in
Waste
09/18/2004 01:15 PM
Xeni Jardin:
Speaking of energy conservation and grotesquely unneccesary excess:
meet the equivalent of an ancient vomitorium. Only, like, um, a
vomitorium where all the toga-wearing freaks are choking down crude.
The International CXT, short for Commercial Extreme Truck, can haul
six tons of dirt and tow a 20-ton yacht at the same time. It's 9 feet
high, 8 feet wide, 21 feet long, and weighs 15,000 pounds. Ergo, about
2 feet taller x 4 feet longer than the honkin' Hummer H2. Which, btw,
it could tow along with that yacht, if need be. I'm using the
word "need" loosely here.
"International built the CXT to make a bold statement," said Rob Swim
of International Truck and Engine Corporation in a prepared statement
announcing the CXT's launch. Exactly what statement would that be?
Link to CXT debut site, and Link to press release announcing launch.
"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 PMGame Room: Dora the Explorer Animal
Adventures
Game Room: Dora the Explorer Animal
Adventures
06/17/2005 04:33 PMPeter Cohen shifts gears with a review of Dora the Explorer Animal
Adventures, a game aimed at young kids.
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 PMCanadian
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 PMAdventures 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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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.
Free Comic Book Day Is Here - Clone Wars
Adventures Issue Available
Free Comic Book Day Is Here - Clone Wars
Adventures Issue Available
07/03/2004 03:23 PMFree Comic Book Day is
here, and while there are a vast selection of comics to choose from,
this year's offering includes
Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures -
Free Comic Book Day 2004 Special by Welles Hartley and The
Fillbach Brothers. Drawn in the syle of the animated series, "Hide in
Plain Sight" stars Luminara Unduli and Barriss Offee and their Clone
Army faceing off against the Separatist Forces on the planet Nadiem.
Led by General Grievous, the battle droids have the Jedi surrounded
for an easy victory. Or is it? Unlike 2002's
FCBD edition, this is a
full-length comic book, and best of all...it's free!
Planned Parenthood Action Fund: The
Adventures of Choice Chick
Planned Parenthood Action Fund: The
Adventures of Choice Chick
08/09/2004 09:25 AMCHOICE CHICK GIVES ME CHILLS .. This PPAF propaganda piece .. Flash
animation .. Bush is evil
ppaction.org/ppvotes/choice_chick.html
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Pickup Games, The Reckoning - Strange
Adventures in Infinite Space
Pickup Games, The Reckoning - Strange
Adventures in Infinite Space
06/18/2004 10:01 PM
MATT GALLANT -- Well, my week is up, and
I've saved as a parting shot the ultimate pickup game: Strange
Adventures in Infinite Space, developed by Digital Eel and published by Cheapass Games. Games take just
minutes.
There's not as much brain power required as there is in the other
games from this week; in fact your score really has more to do with
luck than anything else. But despite having probably less strategy
involved than a game of Freecell, SAIS feels like it's smarter than it
is, because it recalls elements of games with more depth, with its
goals of space exploration, combat, trade and collection.
The demo is pretty crippled compared to the full version, but the
full version costs only $15. Well, the PC and Mac versions do. There's
PocketPC and PalmOS versions too (new Tapwave Zodiac owners take
note!), available from Astraware for $19.99.
And with that fifth and final recommendation, I'm done! All five of
the games I've mentioned this week are great for spending a few
minutes with, but so playable that you'll be able to play for hours.
Have fun, Gizmodo!
Read [SAIS
Info Page]
BEDTIME-STORY CLASSIC - Addendum:
Alice's Adventures under Ground
BEDTIME-STORY CLASSIC - Addendum:
Alice's Adventures under Ground
07/16/2004 04:57 PMfull scan of the very first Alice book ever .. Alice's Adventures
under Ground
the-office.com/bedtime-story/aliceunderground.htm
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