<html lang&equals;"en" xmlns&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;w3&period;org&sol;1999&sol;xhtml"><head><meta name&equals;"robots" content&equals;"index&comma; follow"&sol;>&NewLine;&Tab;<title>K O K O G I A K<&sol;title>&NewLine;&Tab;<meta http-equiv&equals;"content-type" content&equals;"text&sol;html&semi; charset&equals;ISO-8859-1"&sol;>&NewLine;&Tab;<meta http-equiv&equals;"content-language" content&equals;"en-us"&sol;>&NewLine;&Tab;<link rel&equals;"shortcut icon" href&equals;"&sol;static&sol;kokogiak&period;com-favicon&period;ico" type&equals;"image&sol;x-icon"&sol;>&NewLine;&Tab;<style type&equals;"text&sol;css" media&equals;"all">&commat;import "&sol;static&sol;kokogiak&period;com-sk&period;css"&semi;<&sol;style>&NewLine;<&sol;head><&excl;DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-&sol;&sol;W3C&sol;&sol;DTD XHTML 1&period;0 Transitional&sol;&sol;EN" "http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;w3&period;org&sol;TR&sol;xhtml1&sol;DTD&sol;xhtml1-transitional&period;dtd">&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<<h1>K O K O G I A K<&sol;h1<body>&NewLine;&NewLine;<div style&equals;"text-align&colon;center&semi;position&colon;relative&semi;top&colon;0px&semi;"><img style&equals;"height&colon;120px&semi;width&colon;234px&semi;" src&equals;"&sol;static&sol;kokogiak&period;com-hd&period;jpg" alt&equals;" "&sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<div class&equals;"col" id&equals;"left">&NewLine;&Tab;<div style&equals;"text-align&colon;center&semi;"><img src&equals;"&sol;static&sol;kokogiak&period;com-kkgk&period;gif" style&equals;"height&colon;104px&semi;width&colon;218px&semi;border&colon;0px&semi;" alt&equals;"KOKOGIAK" title&equals;"KOKOGIAK" usemap&equals;"&num;mp01"&sol;>&NewLine;&Tab;&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;<div class&equals;"tlc"><div class&equals;"brc">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"header">- Most Recent Projects -<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<ul>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>Virtual Exhibit - Some of my work from nowords&period;org hung in the digital galleries of Cloud King<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>To the Moon - Our Journeys to Luna &lpar;and Back&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;<&sol;div><&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;<div class&equals;"tlc"><div class&equals;"brc">&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"header">- Major&sol;Popular Projects -<&sol;div><br&sol;>&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"bdhd"><img src&equals;"&sol;static&sol;kokogiak&period;com-amzn&lowbar;ico&period;gif" style&equals;"vertical-align&colon;middle&semi;margin-right&colon;3px&semi;height&colon;16px&semi;width&colon;16px&semi;" alt&equals;"Amazon&period;com Webservices Projects"&sol;>Amazon&period;com Webservices<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<ul>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li class&equals;"bdhd">Amazon Light<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>Amazon Light v2&period;0 - an experiment in DHTML UI<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>Amazon Light UK<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>Amazon Light Germany<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>Amazon Light Japan<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>Current Events Booklist - a dynamically updated Booklist based on Word Bursts in the News<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>Amazon Light v3&period;0 - Five Million Items&comma; displayed via standards-based XSLT &sol; XHTML &sol; CSS<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<br&sol;>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"bdhd">The MegaPenny Project<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;Have you ever wondered what a billion pennies would look like&quest; This award-winning exercise in visualizing huge numbers might help&period; People regularly talk about millions of miles&comma; billions of bytes&comma; or trillions of dollars&comma; yet it's still hard to grasp just how much a "billion" really is&period;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<br&sol;><br&sol;>&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"bdhd"><img src&equals;"&sol;static&sol;kokogiak&period;com-seaw&lowbar;ico&period;gif" style&equals;"vertical-align&colon;middle&semi;margin-right&colon;3px&semi;height&colon;16px&semi;width&colon;16px&semi;" alt&equals;"Seattle Waterfront&comma; 2002-1907"&sol;>Seattle Waterfront 2002-1907<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;Two panoramic photographs of the waterfront of Seattle&comma; Washington&comma; taken from the same vantage point - 95 years apart&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<br&sol;><br&sol;>&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"bdhd"><img src&equals;"&sol;static&sol;kokogiak&period;com-mgfn&lowbar;ico&period;gif" style&equals;"vertical-align&colon;middle&semi;margin-right&colon;3px&semi;height&colon;16px&semi;width&colon;16px&semi;" alt&equals;"MegaFauna"&sol;>MegaFauna<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;A List of Remarkable Prehistoric Animals - From the Mammoth to the Sabretooth to bizarre Chalicotheres - a collection of 30 large&comma; extinct&comma; prehistoric mammals&period;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<br&sol;><br&sol;>&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"bdhd"><img src&equals;"&sol;static&sol;kokogiak&period;com-luci&lowbar;ico&period;gif" style&equals;"vertical-align&colon;middle&semi;margin-right&colon;3px&semi;height&colon;16px&semi;width&colon;16px&semi;" alt&equals;"Luciferous Logolepsy"&sol;>Luciferous Logolepsy<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;Over 9&comma;000 obscure words - dragged into the light of day&period;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<br&sol;><br&sol;>&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"bdhd"><img src&equals;"&sol;static&sol;kokogiak&period;com-luna&lowbar;ico&period;gif" style&equals;"vertical-align&colon;middle&semi;margin-right&colon;3px&semi;height&colon;16px&semi;width&colon;16px&semi;" alt&equals;"Journeys to Luna"&sol;>To the Moon<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab; &Tab;Our Journeys to Luna &lpar;and Back&rpar;&colon; Did you know that Men have attempted over 100 Missions to the Moon to date&quest; Do you know who launched the most missions&quest; What Earth Creature was the first to reach the Moon&quest; With a new emphasis on Lunar Exploration - it's a good idea to let our History on the Moon be our Teacher&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<br&sol;><br&sol;>&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"bdhd"><img src&equals;"&sol;static&sol;kokogiak&period;com-mars&lowbar;ico&period;gif" style&equals;"vertical-align&colon;middle&semi;margin-right&colon;3px&semi;height&colon;16px&semi;width&colon;16px&semi;" alt&equals;"Mars Stereo Images"&sol;>Mars Stereo Imagery<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;Stereo Images from Mars presented as space-for-time animations&comma; &lpar;either slow or fast&rpar;&period; Images from Pathfinder in 1997&period;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<br&sol;><br&sol;>&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"bdhd"><img src&equals;"&sol;static&sol;kokogiak&period;com-armc&lowbar;ico&period;gif" style&equals;"vertical-align&colon;middle&semi;margin-right&colon;3px&semi;height&colon;16px&semi;width&colon;16px&semi;" alt&equals;"Amateur Armchair Detective"&sol;>Amateur Armchair Detective Grab Bag<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<ul>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>The Cat in the &lpar;Officially Licensed&rpar; Hat - Universal and Dr&period; Suess go hog-wild with Merchandising Tie-ins for their 2003 movie&period; How much Cat is too much Cat&quest;<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>The Hulk - a massive Green Wave of Movie Merchandise<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>The Burning Building - The identity of a curious Burning Building in Iraq<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<br&sol;>&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"bdhd"><img src&equals;"&sol;static&sol;kokogiak&period;com-hdtv&lowbar;ico&period;gif" style&equals;"vertical-align&colon;middle&semi;margin-right&colon;3px&semi;height&colon;16px&semi;width&colon;16px&semi;" alt&equals;"HDTVFocus&period;com"&sol;>HDTVFocus&period;com<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<br&sol;><br&sol;>&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"bdhd"><img src&equals;"&sol;static&sol;kokogiak&period;com-nwds&lowbar;ico&period;gif" style&equals;"vertical-align&colon;middle&semi;margin-right&colon;3px&semi;height&colon;16px&semi;width&colon;16px&semi;" alt&equals;"Nowords&period;org"&sol;>nowords&period;org<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;The name of the site speaks for itself&period;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<br&sol;><br&sol;>&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"bdhd"><img src&equals;"&sol;static&sol;kokogiak&period;com-nwds&lowbar;ico&period;gif" style&equals;"vertical-align&colon;middle&semi;margin-right&colon;3px&semi;height&colon;16px&semi;width&colon;16px&semi;" alt&equals;"Nowords 365"&sol;>nowords&period;org 365<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;A Wordless Blog&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<br&sol;><br&sol;>&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"bdhd">300 Miles High<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;Take in the beauty of our planet&comma; shown in 100 images taken from high in orbit&period;&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<br&sol;><br&sol;>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"bdhd"><img src&equals;"&sol;static&sol;kokogiak&period;com-frpm&lowbar;ico&period;gif" style&equals;"vertical-align&colon;middle&semi;margin-right&colon;3px&semi;height&colon;16px&semi;width&colon;16px&semi;" alt&equals;"Preserving the French Republican Calendar"&sol;>Preserving the French Republican Calendar<&sol;span><br&sol;>&nbsp&semi;&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;<&sol;div><&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;<div style&equals;"text-align&colon;center&semi;"><img src&equals;"&sol;static&sol;kokogiak&period;com-kkl&period;gif" style&equals;"height&colon;35px&semi;width&colon;150px&semi;" alt&equals;"divider"&sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;<div class&equals;"tlc"><div class&equals;"brc">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"header">- Writing -<&sol;div><br&sol;>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"bdhd">Books<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<ul>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>The Strangest Town in Alaska - Historic events shaped a bizarre unattractive town in the midst of Alaskan beauty&comma; this is the history of Whittier&comma; Alaska<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>The book that was&comma; but not really - epitaph of "Killer Web Design&colon; Using Cascading Style Sheets" &lbrack;blog&rsqb;<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"bdhd">Articles&sol;Essays<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<ul>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>My Time is Stored all over the World<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>A life where TiVo has always existed &lbrack;blog&rsqb;<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>22 pairs of unexpected pants &lbrack;blog&rsqb;<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>Is This all we Get&quest; &lbrack;seattlestories&rsqb;<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>Unplugging &lbrack;seattlestories&rsqb;<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>Of course I'm wet - It's raining &lbrack;seattlestories&rsqb;<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>Dec 96 CSS Article &lbrack;wayback version&rsqb;<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;&Tab;<&sol;div><&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;<div style&equals;"text-align&colon;center&semi;"><img src&equals;"&sol;static&sol;kokogiak&period;com-kkl&period;gif" style&equals;"height&colon;35px&semi;width&colon;150px&semi;" alt&equals;"divider"&sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;<div class&equals;"tlc"><div class&equals;"brc">&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"header">- Webtoys&sol;Widgets&sol;DHTML -<&sol;div><br&sol;>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"bdhd">Toys&sol;Widgets &lpar;IE4&plus; on Win32&rpar;<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<ul>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>Orgulator &lbrack;2004&rsqb; have fun manipulating websites<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>Gegenschein &lbrack;2002&rsqb; &lpar;5k entry&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>Pauciloquent Obnubilation &lbrack;2001&rsqb; &lpar;5k entry&rpar; <&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>Square Ripples &lbrack;2001&rsqb; click inside the square&comma; make ripples<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>Spraypaint text &lbrack;2001&rsqb; Move mouse&comma; text follows&comma; click to 'spray' gray wall&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>3 Follow Conelights &lbrack;2001&rsqb; move mouse over text&comma; lights follow<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>Text Shake &lbrack;2001&rsqb; fake shaky-text&comma; emulating creepy movie credits<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>Sea of copyrights &lbrack;2001&rsqb;<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>Multi-hued Squares &lbrack;2001&rsqb;<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>Drag-drop pre-viz tool &lbrack;2000&rsqb;<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>Seattle traffic &lbrack;1999&rsqb; If you live in Seattle and have to cross the bridges&comma; this should be useful&period; Mouse over the camera images once it's loaded&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>KK Right-click tools &lbrack;1998&rsqb; Permanent right-click webdev menu items for IE4&plus;&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>DHTML Maker &lbrack;1997&rsqb; A series of select boxes to manipulate DHTML properties and generate source code&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>Find your country &lbrack;1997&rsqb; - sprite-driven interactive quiz template&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>Table Rules &lbrack;1996&rsqb; Originally part of IE3's compliance w&sol; HTML 3&period;2&comma; little-used attributes of the TABLE tag&period; <&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>MSNBC Pop-up widget &lbrack;1997&rsqb; First pass at a story-rating widget<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>MSNBC Tax Calculator &lbrack;1997&rsqb; Originally completed for MSNBC&period;com in 1997&period; For fast results&comma; try the test cases by pressing the buttons marked "Smith" or "Wong" at the bottom left&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>MSNBC widget from channels page &lbrack;1996&rsqb; At MSNBC&period;com&comma; I was tapped to make our "channels" page &lpar;To see it&comma; in IE4&plus; choose "Favorites>Channels>Msnbc" from the toolbar&rpar;&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>MSNBC trial widget &lbrack;1996&rsqb; A second version of the widget above&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"bdhd">VRML 3D Projects &lpar;very old&rpar;<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<ul>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>International Space Station &lpar;on MSNBC&period;com&rpar;&comma; or here &lbrack;1997&rsqb; - need VRML plugin&period; One of the most fun projects I've ever worked on&comma; unfortunately it's written in a rather dead language&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>Raven Stories &lpar;VRML&rpar; &lbrack;1996-98&rsqb; need VRML plugin&period; Native American tales animated in 3D on the web&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;<&sol;div><&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;<div style&equals;"text-align&colon;center&semi;"><img src&equals;"&sol;static&sol;kokogiak&period;com-kkl&period;gif" style&equals;"height&colon;35px&semi;width&colon;150px&semi;" alt&equals;"divider"&sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;<div class&equals;"tlc"><div class&equals;"brc">&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"header">- Online History &sol; Mini-portfolio -<&sol;div><br&sol;>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"bdhd">General<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<ul>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>First personal site&colon; Northwest World o Media December 1994<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>First Pro Site&colon; Media Inc&period; mid-1996 - winner of a "top 5&percnt;" award &lpar;remember those&quest;&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>First Web Dev article&colon; The Evolution of Style Sheets&comma; a CSS article from December 1996 Webreference&period;com<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"bdhd">Work History<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<ul>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>&lbrack;amazon&period;com&rsqb; Amazon RSS Feeds <&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>&lbrack;amazon&period;com&rsqb; Pop-downs &lpar;the annoying dhtml ads on the front page - sorry&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>&lbrack;amazon&period;com&rsqb; First version of Gold Box &lpar;again&comma; sorry&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>&lbrack;amazon&period;com&rsqb; 911 tribute page &lpar;for 2003&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>&lbrack;amazon&period;com&rsqb; Golf Game&colon; Promotional DHTML game<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>&lbrack;amazon&period;com&rsqb; Basketball&colon; Promotional DHTML game<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>&lbrack;amazon&period;com&rsqb; Purchase Circles&colon; &lpar;only partially involved&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>&lbrack;drugstore&period;com&rsqb; Pieces all over the old version<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>&lbrack;msnbc&period;com&rsqb; MSNBC&period;com Active Channel Landing Page - early IE4 beta DHTML<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>&lbrack;msnbc&period;com&rsqb; Move the homepage code from Roger Black's MSNBC&period;com &lpar;with two ActiveX Controls and a Java Applet&rpar; to this &lpar;cleaner&comma; lighter&comma; DHTML replaces applets&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>&lbrack;agency&rsqb; Various corporate homepages from 1996-97&comma; including CBS&period;com&comma; NFL&period;com&comma; Boston Consulting Group&comma; Nikkei BP&comma; and the Christian Science Monitor<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<li>&lbrack;agency&rsqb; The Official Baywatch Website&comma; when it was Baywatch&period;compuserve&period;com<&sol;li>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;<&sol;div><&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;<div style&equals;"text-align&colon;center&semi;"><img src&equals;"&sol;static&sol;kokogiak&period;com-kkl&period;gif" style&equals;"height&colon;35px&semi;width&colon;150px&semi;" alt&equals;"divider"&sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<div class&equals;"col" id&equals;"right">&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;<div style&equals;"text-align&colon;center&semi;margin-bottom&colon;1px&semi;"><img src&equals;"&sol;static&sol;kokogiak&period;com-gdk&period;jpg" style&equals;"height&colon;31px&semi;width&colon;150px&semi;" title&equals;"Gedankengang&colon; German word meaning 'Train of thought'" alt&equals;"Gedankengang&colon; German word meaning 'Train of thought'"&sol;><br&sol;><span style&equals;"font-size&colon;&period;75em&semi;color&colon;&num;aaa&semi;">&lbrack;xml&rsqb; &lbrack;archive&rsqb;<&sol;span><&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&NewLine;&NewLine;<div class&equals;"trc"><div class&equals;"blc">&NewLine;&NewLine;<div style&equals;"text-align&colon;center&semi;font-weight&colon;bold&semi;margin-bottom&colon;8px&semi;">Don't make me hunt<&sol;div>&NewLine;A word of advice &lpar;plea for sanity&rpar; to those making a web-based slideshows&comma; where users navigate images by clicking a "next" or "previous" link&period; If you can&comma; either fix the height of the images at a standard height&sol;width&comma; or put the link above&comma; rather than below &lpar;or to the side of&rpar; the image&period; When moving forward &lpar;ie&period; clicking "next - next - next"&rpar;&comma; it's annoying to have to hunt for the "next" button on each new page - when the image heights&sol;widths vary &lpar;case in point&comma; the excellent photos at nppa&period;org&rpar;&period; This is a small complaint&comma; but is Sooo easily remedied&period; Better practice here&colon; kottke&period;org's RNC photos&rpar; Additionally&comma; this keeps more of the navgation at the top&comma; and the caption and related metadata below&period; I know it's a very small thing&comma; but every bit helps&period;&NewLine;<div style&equals;"text-align&colon;right&semi;">8&period;30&period;2004 &commat; 08&colon;24 &vert; &lbrack;0&rsqb; <&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div><&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<div style&equals;"text-align&colon;center&semi;"><img src&equals;"&sol;static&sol;kokogiak&period;com-kkr&period;gif" style&equals;"height&colon;35px&semi;width&colon;150px&semi;" alt&equals;"divider"&sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<div class&equals;"trc"><div class&equals;"blc">&NewLine;&NewLine;<div style&equals;"text-align&colon;center&semi;font-weight&colon;bold&semi;margin-bottom&colon;8px&semi;">Dropcash - great idea well-executed<&sol;div>&NewLine;Andre Torrez kicks butt - he just finished a very cool project called DropCash&comma; that I wanted to do ages ago&comma; but never could get the time&sol;plans&sol;energy together to do&comma; and he knocked it out of the park&period; You can call it many things - a "thermometer"&comma; a "fundraising tool"&comma; "goal-tracker"&comma; what-have-you&period; It's a simple way to set up a goal dollar amount&comma; give it a title&comma; a description&comma; and best&comma; a URL that the whole world can see and use to donate or track the progress&period; <br&sol;><br&sol;>I prefer to think of it as a very useful tool to promote and simplify the concept of the "chip-in"&comma; or collective buying&period; Get your whole family to pitch in easily to buy that new TV for grandma&comma; or collectively reward a friend or acquaintance by selecting an item from their Amazon Wishlist and raising the funds with dropcash - that way everyone can view the progress of the fundraising &lpar;and if someone pledged cash and is tardy with it&comma; they can be tracked in public&rpar;&period; At gomi no sensei&comma; there are screenshots to show you the simple process&period; &lbrack;Edit - now Dropcash has Badges&comma; here's my test badge - Cool&excl;&rsqb;<br&sol;><br&sol;><br&sol;><br&sol;>Collective purchasing is something I know people at Amazon were interested in for a long time&comma; but there was always a problem with the details of execution - who holds the money&quest; If it's a corporation&comma; then they end up acting like a bank and are subject to all sorts of restrictions&period; If it's a person&comma; how do you trust the transactions&quest; How do you track progress&comma; how do you deal with refunds or goals that fall short&quest; In the case of Dropcash&comma; the one person who organizes the fundraiser &lpar;and sets up the campaign page&rpar; gets to set the rules and really is the one finally accountable - as it should be&comma; liability becomes moot&period; Andre's handled this well by leaving the entire operation open&comma; using PayPal as an established trustworthy API for transactions and TypeKey for identity&period; <br&sol;><br&sol;>As a more concrete example&comma; I've set up a real-world campaign - A fine time for a Coolpix&period; If you've ever offered to donate to kokogiak&period;com before&comma; &lpar;or thought about it&rpar;&comma; here's the place to do it&period; But not all pages have to be so self-serving - I definitely see charitable and community-based fundraising being able to use this&period; <br&sol;><br&sol;>Paypal should buy dropcash outright&comma; or at least give Andre a consulting gig or something&period; This sort of cumulative micropayment tool could really mean a lot to them&comma; considering they charge about 30 cents per transaction&period; Now I'm thinking of ways to tie in Amazon&period;com's API with dropcash hmm&comma; many possibilities&period; Nice work Mr&period; Torrez&period;&NewLine;<div style&equals;"text-align&colon;right&semi;">8&period;17&period;2004 &commat; 18&colon;44 &vert; &lbrack;0&rsqb; <&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div><&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<div style&equals;"text-align&colon;center&semi;"><img src&equals;"&sol;static&sol;kokogiak&period;com-kkr&period;gif" style&equals;"height&colon;35px&semi;width&colon;150px&semi;" alt&equals;"divider"&sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<div class&equals;"trc"><div class&equals;"blc">&NewLine;&NewLine;<div style&equals;"text-align&colon;center&semi;font-weight&colon;bold&semi;margin-bottom&colon;8px&semi;">Kerry's Plans - Guerilla-Conversion Style<&sol;div>&NewLine;Want to know what John Kerry's Plan for Africa is&quest; How about the specific goals he has to explore and develop new energy sources&quest; Interested in the details of their plans&comma; not the impact of the latest epithet hurled by Dick Cheney or Teresa Heinz-Kerry&quest; Well&comma; in the ongoing spirit of guerilla conversions&comma; I've just put together what I hope will be a helpful tool&period; The Kerry-Edwards campaign just released their book&comma; "Our Plan For America"&period; You can download it here - but only in PDF format&period; Or&comma; now you can parse through the plan in a more web-friendly&comma; linkable format here&period; Only the first Section &lpar;of two&rpar; is presented here - the last section is press photographs and the text of older speeches&period; If you really want to see those&comma; you can always download the PDF&comma; or find the book&period;<br&sol;><br&sol;>I wonder why A&rpar; The text of the book was released online in PDF format only&comma; and B&rpar; I have heard so little in the media about the plans laid out in this document&period; I've learned a lot just by putting it together - like the fact that they promise to take action to "can spam"&period; Now there's a plank in any platform that I can get behind&period;&NewLine;<div style&equals;"text-align&colon;right&semi;">8&period;3&period;2004 &commat; 10&colon;57 &vert; &lbrack;0&rsqb; <&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div><&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<div style&equals;"text-align&colon;center&semi;"><img src&equals;"&sol;static&sol;kokogiak&period;com-kkr&period;gif" style&equals;"height&colon;35px&semi;width&colon;150px&semi;" alt&equals;"divider"&sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<div class&equals;"trc"><div class&equals;"blc">&NewLine;&NewLine;<div style&equals;"text-align&colon;center&semi;font-weight&colon;bold&semi;margin-bottom&colon;8px&semi;">Knee-Jerk Contrarians<&sol;div>&NewLine;Andy &lpar;Waxy&rpar; had a lovely idea earlier this month - pick a favorite book&sol;dvd&sol;album and see what the worst is that the world has to say about it &lpar;Amazon&period;com User Reviews sorted from lowest-to-highest&rpar;&period; He called it the Amazon&period;com Knee-Jerk Contrarian game&period; It's illuminating&comma; fun and now a little easier to do - I pulled a few pieces of Amazon Light and some page-scraper bits I had laying around to make it a two-step process now&period; Go here&comma; and enter a search term&comma; and click on one of the search results&comma; and voila&colon; the worst of the lot&period; <br&sol;><br&sol;>For instance&comma; here's some hating on Doolittle&comma; by the Pixes&period; My favorite quote&comma;&nbsp&semi;from a 1-star rater&nbsp&semi;"I dont like the pixies at all&comma; but this is definatly their crowning acheivement&period;" Wha&quest; <br&sol;><br&sol;>Hours of time-wasting fun&period; That's what the Web is all about&comma; no&quest;<br&sol;>&NewLine;<div style&equals;"text-align&colon;right&semi;">7&period;30&period;2004 &commat; 06&colon;59 &vert; &lbrack;0&rsqb; <&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div><&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<div style&equals;"text-align&colon;center&semi;"><img src&equals;"&sol;static&sol;kokogiak&period;com-kkr&period;gif" style&equals;"height&colon;35px&semi;width&colon;150px&semi;" alt&equals;"divider"&sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<div class&equals;"trc"><div class&equals;"blc">&NewLine;&NewLine;<div style&equals;"text-align&colon;center&semi;font-weight&colon;bold&semi;margin-bottom&colon;8px&semi;">Happy 2nd Birthday Amazon Light<&sol;div>&NewLine;Tomorrow &lpar;July 15th&rpar; is the Second Anniversary of Amazon Light&period; Two years ago&comma; I made the site public&comma; as part of a larger launch of proof-of-concept apps&period; The next day&comma; Amazon announced their Webservices Platform&period; Over the course of the following week&comma; traffic to the site grew exponentially&comma; even attracting unwanted attention from Google's Legal department &lpar;I had to change the look - it was too Googly&rpar;&period; For a while it was at the top of DayPop and Blogdex&comma; but the part that always made me proudest was when people pointed to it as a concrete example&comma; saying "<strong>that's<&sol;strong> what you can do with webservices"&period;<br&sol;><br&sol;>I've never really shared the performance stats for Amazon Light before&comma; in part because it's considered rude by some&comma; in part because I discovered that a number of people were convinced I was making tens of thousands of dollars a month with this &lpar;I'm not&rpar; - why would I want to burst their bubble &semi;&rpar; From what I can tell&comma; Amazon Light is a "high-average" site&period; Not in the same league as the top earners&comma; but somewhere in the top 80&percnt; - but that's really educated guesswork&period; Also&comma; at this stage&comma; I'm more comfortable with sharing some numbers&comma; so here you go&period;<br&sol;><br&sol;>Some basic stats on Amazon Light&comma; based on numbers provided by Amazon &lpar;cumulative&comma; over the past two years&rpar;&colon;<br&sol;><br&sol;>Total recorded click-thrus&colon; 87&comma;832<br&sol;>Total number of orders placed&colon; 8&comma;975<br&sol;>Total Revenue &lpar;for Amazon&rpar;&colon; &dollar;124&comma;620&period;00<br&sol;><br&sol;>No - I did not earn &dollar;124&comma;620&period;00 - that's what Amazon grossed based on my traffic &lpar;over the past 2 years&rpar;&period; I earned a percentage of that&comma; varying depending on item&comma; in my case&comma; averaging about 8&percnt;&period; And No&comma; this does not take into account earnings made through Amazon&period;co&period;uk&comma; Amazon&period;de&comma; nor Amazon&period;co&period;jp&period; It is a very nice sum&comma; which I whole-heartedly appreciate&comma; but certainly not enough to retire on&period;<br&sol;><br&sol;>Most expensive item purchased &lpar;earlier this year&rpar;&colon; A Sharp LC-37HV4U 37" AQUOS LCD Flat-Panel HDTV-Ready TV at &dollar;4&comma;199&period;94<br&sol;><br&sol;>Largest quantity order&colon; 245 copies of Worth the Fighting for&colon; A Memoir&comma; the John McCain memoir&comma; in late 2002&period;<br&sol;><br&sol;>Amazon Light &lpar;the site&rpar; is a little creaky &lpar;nonstandard&comma; ugly HTML&comma; un-scalable&rpar;&comma; and I've made a few new versions &lpar;v2&comma; v3&comma; uk&comma; de&comma; jp&rpar;&comma; but nothing performs like the original&comma; not even close&period; <br&sol;><br&sol;>I have a few ideas for some further projects&comma; and am tinkering with some new Amazon Webservices beta program projects&comma; please drop a comment if you have any ideas&sol; suggestions&sol; critiques&period;<br&sol;><br&sol;>And lastly&comma; a heartfelt thank-you to everyone who has ever used&comma; linked to&comma; or visited Amazon Light&period;&NewLine;<div style&equals;"text-align&colon;right&semi;">7&period;14&period;2004 &commat; 12&colon;54 &vert; &lbrack;0&rsqb; <&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div><&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<div style&equals;"text-align&colon;center&semi;"><img src&equals;"&sol;static&sol;kokogiak&period;com-kkr&period;gif" style&equals;"height&colon;35px&semi;width&colon;150px&semi;" alt&equals;"divider"&sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<div class&equals;"trc"><div class&equals;"blc">&NewLine;&NewLine;<div style&equals;"text-align&colon;center&semi;font-weight&colon;bold&semi;margin-bottom&colon;8px&semi;">Interplanetary RSS Feeds<&sol;div>&NewLine;Wondering if there was an RSS feed for the excellent Astronomy Picture of the Day&comma; I googled&comma; and found that jwz had created just such a feed a while back&period; <br&sol;><br&sol;>It also occurred to me that the latest images and press releases coming from Saturn &lpar;and Mars&rpar; would make excellent candidates for RSS feeds - the data is interesting and comes in unpredictable bursts&period; Well&comma; NASA doesn't seem to have any &lpar;that I could find&rpar;&comma; so I threw together a few scrapers to get what I'm after&period; Feel free to use them as well&comma; but be warned that they are based on pagescrapers - so they might go down at any moment&period;<br&sol;><br&sol;>For Saturn&colon; Cassini-Huygens Probe - Latest Press Images Feed&comma; the Planetary Photojournal&comma; and the raw feed of Cassini Images &lpar;this last one could be wobbly due to aggressive caching on JPL's side&rpar;&period;<br&sol;><br&sol;>For other Planets &lpar;and the Sun&rpar;&colon;<br&sol;><br&sol;>- Sun &lbrack;last updated 3&period;13&period;2004&rsqb;<br&sol;>- Mercury &lbrack;last updated 1&period;18&period;2001&rsqb;<br&sol;>- Venus &lbrack;last updated 6&period;27&period;2003&rsqb;<br&sol;>- Earth &lbrack;last updated 7&period;7&period;2004&rsqb;<br&sol;>- Mars &lbrack;last updated 7&period;8&period;2004&rsqb;<br&sol;>- Jupiter &lbrack;last updated 11&period;13&period;2003&rsqb;<br&sol;>- Uranus &lbrack;last updated 8&period;24&period;2000&rsqb;<br&sol;>- Neptune &lbrack;last updated 4&period;01&period;2000&rsqb;<br&sol;>- Pluto &lbrack;last updated 3&period;28&period;1998&rsqb;<br&sol;>or&comma; just get 'em all with the All Planets &lpar;and Sun&rpar; feed &lbrack;last updated 7&period;9&period;2004&rsqb;&period;<br&sol;><br&sol;>As for the Mars Rovers images&comma; I'm still trying to figure out the best method to do generate an RSS feed for that - they don't have a good scrapable press-images page&comma; and their raw image feeds are scattered and noisy - five cameras on two robots with sporadic updating&period; Seems like the Hubble telescope deserves an RSS feed too&period; Lemme know if there's any problems with these feeds or if there are other better ones out there&period;&NewLine;<div style&equals;"text-align&colon;right&semi;">7&period;9&period;2004 &commat; 11&colon;21 &vert; &lbrack;1&rsqb; <&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div><&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<div style&equals;"text-align&colon;center&semi;"><img src&equals;"&sol;static&sol;kokogiak&period;com-kkr&period;gif" style&equals;"height&colon;35px&semi;width&colon;150px&semi;" alt&equals;"divider"&sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<div class&equals;"trc"><div class&equals;"blc">&NewLine;&NewLine;<div style&equals;"text-align&colon;center&semi;font-weight&colon;bold&semi;margin-bottom&colon;8px&semi;">Action Verb Snapshots via Yahoo News<&sol;div>&NewLine;A person does many things in a day&period; These things are captured on film and transmitted via my favorite source of news photos&comma; Yahoo News&period; <br&sol;><br&sol;>On any given day&comma; a person&colon;<br&sol;><br&sol;>Eats&comma; drinks&comma; bites&comma; feeds&comma; and &lpar;hopefully&rpar; cleans&period;<br&sol;><br&sol;>Speaks&comma; addresses&comma; shouts&comma; yells&comma; gestures&comma; points&comma; and&comma; quite possibly listens&period; <br&sol;><br&sol;>Lifts&comma; raises&comma; flies&comma; or clenches a fist&comma; leaps&comma; tackles&comma; pushes&comma; possibly shoves&comma; throws&comma; hurls&comma; or tosses&period;<br&sol;><br&sol;>Frowns&comma; cries&comma; grimaces&comma; weeps&comma; or mourns &lpar;lots of this in the Middle East&period;&rpar;<br&sol;><br&sol;>Touches&comma; scratches&comma; and wipes&period; Holds&comma; or clutches&period;<br&sol;><br&sol;>Sings&comma; performs&comma; and poses&comma; or is captured in silhouette&period;<br&sol;><br&sol;>Smiles&comma; consoles&comma; laughs&comma; celebrates&comma; kisses&comma; embraces&comma; hugs&comma; and dances&period;<br&sol;><br&sol;>Then of course&comma; looks&comma; yawns&comma; and sleeps&period;&NewLine;<div style&equals;"text-align&colon;right&semi;">7&period;8&period;2004 &commat; 13&colon;09 &vert; &lbrack;0&rsqb; <&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div><&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<div style&equals;"text-align&colon;center&semi;"><img src&equals;"&sol;static&sol;kokogiak&period;com-kkr&period;gif" style&equals;"height&colon;35px&semi;width&colon;150px&semi;" alt&equals;"divider"&sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<br&sol;><br&sol;><div style&equals;"text-align&colon;center&semi;"><img style&equals;"height&colon;16px&semi;width&colon;16px&semi;border&colon;0px&semi;" src&equals;"&sol;static&sol;kokogiak&period;com-icon-blue&period;gif" alt&equals;"This page is powered by Blogger&period; Isn't yours&quest;"&sol;><br&sol;>technorati profile<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;