9th
February
2000
Action Item: Professional Superhero
Hawhawhaw. “Oddball cartoons.”
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This is “a graph of how the Internet might look if you were a packet of data like an e-mail message. The lines show the paths you might take, network-by-network, if you started at a computer in the U.S. and visited almost every known network around the world. The lines branch at each network switch or router along the way. It was made by recording the shortest path taken by test messages sent on May 3, 1999, from a computer in Murray Hill, New Jersey to each of the 95,800 networks registered in the authoritative global database kept by Merit Network Inc.”
“Mission objective: To obtain the most complete, near-global, high-resolution database of the earth’s topography.” Launch: Feb 11, 2000, 11:30 a.m., CST.
“Mission objective: To obtain the most complete, near-global, high-resolution database of the earth’s topography.”
“There are 9 people in this picture. If you find 6, you have an ordinary power of observation. Find 7, you have above average power of observation. Find 8, you are very observant. Congratulate yourself. Find 9, you are extremely observant. Very intuitive and creative. You can rival the observant power of Sherlock Holmes.” Crap. I found 9 but apparently I made one up.
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“When faced with laying out a Web page most people do the obvious thing — they emulate the print documents, newsletters, and magazine layouts they’ve seen all their lives. You see the results on thousands of Web pages: Plunk a big graphic on the top of the page to make it ‘interesting,’ then start listing the links, text content, or minor graphics below the graphic dominating the top of the page. The ironic result is that the important stuff — the menu links, navigation links, and descriptive information — gets pushed off the bottom edge of the screen where it can’t be seen.”
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Already an expert at Extreme HTML Optimization? Then enter this 5k contest: “All HTML, script, image, style, and any other associated files must collectively total less than 5 kilobytes in size and be entirely self-contained (employing no server-side processing).The idea behind the contest is that the rigid constraints of designing for the web are what force us get truly creative.”
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