The Year of the Flip Flops

If your in the market for flip-flops, check out some of the styles President Georgie recommends.

Great Animation on War Corporatism

This is a beautiful Constructivist-esque animation critiquing US foreign policy and the "." It's a collaboration between young British designer Simon Robson and friend Barry McNamara, who provided the rant for Robson to visually riff on.

Thanks Boing Boing

Java Skyline: Learning JavaServer Pages

I need to learn JSP scripting for work and was pointed to this excelent JavaServer Pages Tutorial

Detailed Map of Springfield

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Originally uploaded by mikeg626.

This reminds me of the copious quantities of free time I had at University.

Bug

Bug
Originally uploaded by mikeg626.

This is my new buddy, Bug. Isn't she cute?

Own Up To It

Face facts. Bush is a slacking law flouting party boy who did not fulfill his obligations to the military in a time of war because he is well connected.

Free Version of Akamai

Familiar with Akamai? It's a distributed computing scheme to deliver highly requested content-- or content that experiences demand spikes-- via the web. Some of their clients are MSNBC, Lycos and Apple. Akamai allows these enterprises to deliver a constant quality of service to their customers, even during peak traffic times by distributing requests throughout the Akamai network to an external web cache. It's cool, but pricey.



Step in Coral... a project by NYU to do the same thing via a P2P network. How does it work? Make a request of a site like http://www.yahoo.com only append .nyud.net:8090 to the address. If the page is already in the cache, it will be servered up to you. If not, the system caches the page and then delivers it to your browser.

Links on the cached page point to cached versions of the liks on the "live" page. Check out http://eattheapple.blogspot.com.nyud.net:8090 .

This could be very useful if, say, a Blogspot Site releases a massively popular update and everyone comes to the site to check it out. Typically, in that situation the quality of service our standard web host could provide may be inadequate. However, the author thought ahead and cached all of the pages for the whiz bang post to Coral. Now requests for that information are distributed along Coral's network of servers and everyone can get the information they want.

Pretty sparkly.

All The Best News You Haven't Read

Project Censored has come out with its list of the most censored (read: least reported) media stories of 2003-2004, like: "U.S. Develops Lethal New Viruses", "Media and Government Ignore Dwindling Oil Supplies" and "Reinstating the Draft"

Firefox - Rediscover the web

Firefox has really helped me to rediscover at least the way that I browse the web. I've been using Firefox for a while-- since it was named Phoenix. and have recently made use of a number of Firefox extensions.

Other people are recognizing the value of Firefox as well. In the last nine months the usage of Firefox has doubled so that it now has a marketshare of 14.9%.