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Does anybody know why we are we doing this? Good, wise, practical and blunt piece about having reasons for making websites, or for doing most anything. Greg Storey on A List Apart. Something different in my podcast game This time the passage is from a play instead of a novel, and it is one of the silliest speeches in the history of theatre. It's been a week since I did one, a longer interval than usual. I think I may start deciding on the interval by waiting until a certain number of players have listened to the last passage, say, 350 hits to the most recent .mp3 file. Graphical body count help Hil's going to make the icon for the graphical body count. She said there are counters already. I've missed those. Wonder how they work and if they could be the source of the number for this. I think an icon to represent every individual death would mean more than a number. I did that one time with the 400,000+ living IU alumni, representing them as rows of paper dolls. The page was several feet long. It really drove the point home about "that's a lot!" It's kind of the same principle as the Vietnam memorial in Washington with all 57,000 individual names going on and on and on. Maybe a tombstone would be better, you could fit more of them in a 150-or-so-pixel row, possibly easier to illustrate as a recognizable tiny icon, too? Also it would give off that chilling effect you get when you see the rows of graves at Arlington National Cemetery. Remember the scene of the alien's impression of the cemetery in The Day the Earth Stood Still? Maybe it could be called the graveyard. Later: Hil already has a coffin. What a sweetie. I'll mock it up in a sidebar and see how much space it takes up. Later still: Here's how iraqbodycount.org syndicates the citizen tally. That's a chilling number, too, more than 26,000 already. But it's not the number that's going to convince Americans to want out of the war. |
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