I'm not sure which aspect of Tino I like best... the shorts, or the jewelry. I'd comment on the fashion faux pas of wearing silver AND gold, but, you know... the shorts..

The 10 worst Album Covers. Ever.

] Shit Bitch Bears are the most authentic and effective way
] to express deep feelings of lust, love and like to that
] special someone.

who needs chocolates, anyway?

ShitBitchBear::Home

My sister tells me this is old news. I say "screw you, it's news to me!!!"

The unsinkable boat

] An experimental drug which turns off the biological
] "switch" in the brain that makes people hungry when they
] smoke cannabis may be a key weapon in Sanofi-Synthelabo's
] battle for Aventis

Jessica not a fan of the munchies...

Yahoo! News - Sanofi Has High Hopes for Drug to Beat 'Munchies'

] Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord...

Mirth: Fun Stuff :: Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord...

] PARIS -- The dormant Garden Gnome Liberation Front has
] sprung back to life, stealing about 20 gnomes during a
] nighttime raid on a Paris exhibition.
]
] "We demand ... that garden gnomes are no longer ridiculed
] and that they be released into their natural habitat,"
] the Front's Paris wing said in a statement following its
] weekend strike.

I remember this...

CNN.com - Garden Gnome Liberation Front strikes Paris show - April 12, 2000

This is a gallery of different images of human social networks.

Gallery of network images

My company blocked Memestreams today. So I won't be posting much anymore. I'll try to do so from home (like I am right now SINCE MY COMPANY BLOCKED ME) but I won't be around much :(
This sucks.
Anyway, you can e-mail me or I.M. me...
Let's all hope they unblock it. Soon!
-Jessica

Rattle's comments:

For several months now, work has been underway building the next version of MemeStreams. It has been necessary to recode most of the site from scratch, so its taking awhile. At any given time the trials of life, lack of funding, bad timing, hardware failure, and general bad luck is screwing up the works. However, we _are_ making progress.

Just before the new year, I hit the point in the development process where new capabilities of mining and graphing social network data were becoming available. I decided to go off on a little tangent, embrace the milestone, and do something to show our technology's progress. The result is the Year in Graphs 2003. Over the course of putting this together I've wound up fixing all kinds of problems with our database conversion code and wrote much of what will become the new graphing engine. I even had a really good "eureka" moment in relation to some of our network theory.. Its been time usefully spent.

That being said, this is all very kludgy. I did not spend that much time crossing I's and dotting T's.. The fonts in the nodes are hard to read, some of the graphs look "squished", its missing the "Show Links" feature the current Social Network portion of the sites has, etc.. There is much room for improvement with our graphing. I look forward to additional feedback.. :)

While these graphs may be fun to look at, the data they are built with is what's really exciting.. The same thing that allowed me to make these graphs is what's going to lead to improvements in the capabilities of the Reputation Agent.

Anyway, I hope you all enjoy browsing through this review of the past year!

MemeStreams - The Year in Graphs 2003

] This collection of web pages documents Brad's activity on
] the system and the people who's lives he effected, from
] the first day he logged on MemeStreams to the day he
] passed on.

I had just finished the Year in Graphs when we heard of Brad's overdose. The idea of putting this together came to me immediately.. However, it took me about a week to get my shit together enough to actually do it.

I'm not sure what to say about it. I wasn't sure what to write on the intro/index page either. I spent a good afternoon of staring at a blank copy of VIM trying to come up with something. Then it dawned on me that the community could speak for itself, so I just started cut and pasting whatever made sense. It felt like that was a copout at the time, and it still does now..

However, I still can't think of anything to say about the matter. I can think of a few things I want to scream.. Really fucking loudly.. All of them at Brad.

For now, I'll say I miss him.

... and stay away from Heroin.

Brad