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Scott London pictures

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:00:00 GMT

Scott London has some beautiful pictures of Burning Man 2008.

Naomi Wolf

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:59:00 GMT

Naomi Wolf wrote outlined the 10 steps to a fascist government. In this video she talks about how they have all come through.

Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy.
Create a gulag.
Develop a thug caste.
Set up an internal surveillance system.
Harass citizens' groups.
Engage in arbitrary detention and release.
Target key individuals.
Control the press.
Dissent equals treason.
Suspend the rule of law.

Cruxshadows

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Cruxshadows is playing with Ayria at DNA lounge tonight.

Lilliputians

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:30:00 GMT

This video from Gizmodo shows the cool effect of a shift lens when combined with time lapse.

The financial crisis simplified

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:00:00 GMT

The Vlogbrothers produced a video to explain the current economic crisis.

The pacifist

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:00:00 GMT

This abuse of power is another example why it's important to observe arrests the way Trish Van Pilsum did in Minneapolis. Good job Trish.

Tribe down

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:00:00 GMT

Tribe.net has been down for a couple weeks. Burners are back from the playa and are dying to reconnect, I couldn't think of a worse time to bring it down. I received a nasty 500 error this morning. I don't know what's going on but whatever it is its bad bad bad.

Extended downtime topic posted Tue, September 9, 2008 - 4:56 PM by Darren
So, if you hadn't noticed, our downtime from Thursday was extremely extended until today, Tuesday. A vital piece of hardware malfunctioned and was irreparably damaged when we powered it back on. This equipment was scheduled for replacement on September 23rd -- we have the site held together with spit and bubblegum until we get the new storage solution installed. We apologize for the extended downtime, this weekend was about as bad as it could get. We will be sending out an email to all users tomorrow.

Minimum impressions

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:00:00 GMT

Here are some figures that have been floating around in my mind that I thought I would share.

A website would need to generate 500 thousand impressions per month to receive an income of $5000 monthly. If you take 30% off (for taxes that amounts to about $3500. This would provide a modest monthly income for a one person show. The site would be about the popularity of cooltools or treonauts.

SITE               - IMPRESSIONS
laughingsquid[fm]  - 390,000
cooltools[fm]      - 480,000
treonauts[fm]      - 540,000
askaninja[fm]      - 780,000
43folders[fm]      - 900,000
boingboing[fm]     - 7,380,000

It's difficult to compare impressions since many websites don't offer that sort of information but you can use www.compete.com to get an idea of how the site ranks compared to others. Choose a couple of the sites you know the impressions for (laughingsquid, treonauts, askaninja as a baseline) as a baseline and compare the graphs to get a rough estimate. For example, tribe.net seems to far exceed the traffic of laughingsquid whereas tinynibbles.com seems to come pretty close to treeonauts.com. I've compiled an excel spreadsheet of sample impressions if you're interested in getting a better idea of what the numbers mean.

Here's how the numbers work out. If you were a website that charged $5 CPM (a modest figure, Gawker media charges between $6 and $10), you could sell 200 thousand impressions to 5 customers and earn $5000 monthly. This means your site would need to generate 1 million (one thousand thousand) impressions per month. You can double up the ads on a page and reduce this number to 500 thousand.

($5 per thousand impressions) * (200 thousand impressions) * (5 customers) = $5000 monthly (200 thousand impressions) * (5 customers) = 1000 thousand impressions

LHC to start in two days

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:20:00 GMT

CERN has today announced that the first attempt to circulate a beam in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be made on 10 September. They're on Central European Time (+9 hours from Pacific Standard Time). There's a webcast on the cern site for more information.

Right-brained

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:19:00 GMT

Which way is this girl spinning? 7ustm3's post indicates that if you see her spinning clockwise, then you're right brained.

LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS	RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses logic	uses feelings
detail oriented	big picture oriented
facts rule	imagination rules
words and language	symbols and images
present and past	present and future
math and science	philosophy & religion
can comprehend	can "get it" (i.e. meaning)
knowing	believes
acknowledges	appreciates
order/pattern perception	spatial perception
knows object name	knows object function
reality based	fantasy based
forms strategies	presents possibilities
practical	impetuous
safe	risk taking