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Does Peer-to-Peer Suck? 150
In most of the world, inventors identify a need and wear themselves out creating innovations to meet it. On the Net, the creative process seems to work in reverse: you make cool and exciting stuff, and assume that somebody, somewhere will eventually want to use it. It helps to announce, in the process, that the new gizmo will change everything about the way we (take your pick) communicate, do business, go to the movies, have sex, get an education, acquire music.
On the cover of Peer-to-Peer: Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies, there's a blurb from the respected Stanford Law Net guru Lawrence Lessig:
"Peer-to-Peer," he exults,"is the next great thing for the Internet."
If we've learned anything in the past decade or so, it's to run for your life whenever you hear anybody say that. The next great thing on the Internet usually turns out to be something like sex sites, instant messaging, free music or free Web pages. A couple of months ago, we were being told that TiVo was going to alter everything about marketing, but now digital replay recording sales are in the tank. Most people know the difference between something that's neat and something they need.
One thing you can take to the bank (if it's still letting you in the door): Peer-to-Peer is not the next great thing, on the Net or off. It's a great thing, a fascinating and fun thing, especially for the thousands of tech gurus and coders and free music hogs who design and use it. And it unquestionably has some seriously social implications, like rendering censorship or government regulation very nearly impossible, creating new kinds of anonymous payment systems, and giving individuals unprecedented, and perhaps even permanent access to data, communications, ideas and freedom of a kind.
P2P, writes Clay Shirky in a recent essay defining peer-to-peer, is a class of applications that takes advantages of particular resources -- storage, cycles, content, human presence -- that are available at the edges of the Internet, beyond the conventional reach of governments, institutions and businesses.
Because getting to these intensely decentralized resources means operating in a new environment -- unstable connectivity, unpredictable IP addresses -- p2p nodes must operate outside the existing domain name system and have total autonomy from central servers. That, says Shirky, an influential writer about society and the Net, is what makes p2p distinctive. (But even basic definitions about what p2p is aren't clear: One programmer read this paragraph and wrote me: "I don't quite agree. It would seem to me that you need to have very fault tolerant and abuse-tolerant systems that can handle nodes coming and going constantly. That's more the issue, not so much the unpredictable IP addresses. Basically, it needs to be a system that can handle having people connect and disconnect from it at random.")
Whatever. The Digerati and the idealistic are swooning over p2p. They say it's heralding a new age in the personal control of information.
Peer-to-peer, writes Andy Oram of O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. in the introduction of this book, was the eyebrow raiser for the summer of 2000. Napster, SETI@home, Freenet, Gnutella, Jabber and .Net (Microsoft's big P2P gamble) shocked the computer world, and woke it from its long slumber, says Oram. (Was it, in fact, asleep?)
What's the excitement all about? "In various ways, they (these p2p) sites, return content, choice and control to ordinary users," Oram says. Tiny endpoints on the Internet, sometimes without even knowing each other, exchange information and form communities. There are no more clients and servers -- or at least, the servers retract discreetly. Instead, the significant communication takes place between cooperating peers. That is why, diverse as such developments are, it is appropriate to lump them together under the "peer-to-peer" rubric.
This idea is sweeping alternative media. Erik Moeller recently set up a mailing list for p2p journalism which suggests the direction some people believe p2p media might be taking us. "Collaborative journalism" or peer-to-peer-journalism," writes Moeller, "is understood as referring to weblogs and interactive communities where users submit and filter articles and/or comments. We are... interested in exploring new opportunities offered by decentralized networks, or Napster-like content sharing." But it's far from clear what those "opportunities" might be; how collaborative media will work, or what good it might do, let alone whether such media are economically feasible or able to reach any significant audiences. Like those falling trees in the forest, information needs critical mass. It has to be seen and heard by substantial numbers of people to have significance.
There is a utopian flavor about p2p -- freedom for everyone all of the time. Nobody embraces populism more than various political elites, even though there's no evidence that the masses are looking for decentralized info. The problem is that some of the best media has been organized, accountable and coherent in ways that may not be possible in a de-centralized information model.
There is a school of thought that says individuals don't want to control every aspect of everything to do with their lives -- electricity, water, sewage come to mind -- and that information technologies are already overwhelming and incoherent. At the moment, p2p raises more questions than answers or possibilities. Gnutella replaces Napster, which is important to many people, but that doesn't translate into the Net's next great thing.
In a chapter on trust, the authors write about open issues like the absence of a global Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) to guarantee anonymity, something many programmers believe isn't possible and is never going to happen. As the writers correctly point out, this has enormous implications for the future of so-called "censorship-resistant" publishing systems, since there are so many ways to trace people and correlate their online activity that any promise of anonymity may be misguided. Which means the idea of a censorship-resistant technology itself may be doubtful.
Chapter Sixteen deals with the accountability of peer-to-peer programs, including one p2p's most touted potential applications, anonymous macropayment digital cash schemes. The micropayment systems discussed in the book offer strong security and anonymity, write the authors, but they come at a cost. "The computational and size requirements of such digital cash are much greater." And they operate more slowly. The writings on digital cash suggest these systems may be workable -- or might even come to pass -- but they have the ring of sci-fi about them, like hover cars; dazzling uses of technology that soar far above the heads, or perhaps even the needs, of most consumers.
Napster is the most widely-heralded example of the p2p revolution, even though, technically, Napster did operate from a central server, and...er...seems to be dying. (But it's peer-to-peer, writes Shirky, because the addresses of Napster nodes bypass DNS, and because once the Napster server resolves the IP addresses of the PC's hosting a particular song, it shifts control of the file transfers to the nodes.)
Shirky wrote the very interesting chapter of this book called "Listening to Napster," in which he writes that what makes Napster and Popular Power and Freenet and AIMster and Groove similiar is that they are all leveraging previously unused resources (mostly by using variable connectivity). This lets them make new, powerful use of the countless millions of devices that have been connected to the edges of the Net in recent years. Perhaps to make P2P clearer, Alexander Graham Bell is often cited, in this book and elsewhere, as an organizer of P2P, the phone a classic example of primal peer-to-peer technology.
The idea is that peer-to-peer is exciting because it harnesses all this unused space, power and connectivity, draws from the basic Net/hacker, free software/Open Source idea of reversing the flow of information, giving more power to individuals to control their own information lives, escaping government or corporation control and domination. Nodes of thought, conversation and data-sharing can flourish far from control of corporate lawyers, FBI agents or copyright snitches, and communications are more lateral and anonymous.
So peer-to-peer is being championed as a technology, a business opportunity and an investment, as well as a revolutionary new means of empowering people and protecting their civil liberties and sense of individualism. Sounds pretty good. In the book, Usenet news and its decentralized model of control is cited as the grandaddy of todays' peer-to-peer applications. Usenet, created in l979, uses no central control, and copies files between computers.
In the afterword, Oram tries to look ahead to the possible implications, to the fact that p2p technologies may challenge governments and corporations. Putting tools in the hands of individual users could have an enormous impact on business models, writes Oram. People might no longer buy a technical manual from O'Reilly & Associates; they might download it from a peer instead, or more creatively perhaps, extract and combine pieces of it along with other material from a number of different peers. This, Oram adds, could further weaken conventional notions of copyright.
Peer-to-peer is useful where "the goods you're trying to get at lie at many endpoints; in other words, where the value of information lies in the contributions of many users rather than the authority of one." It's obvious that this could be valuable in research and some kinds of business development. But the book offers precious few examples of the kind of information that might be valuable in that way to large numbers of people.
This all echoes, in the highest traditions of the hacker ethic, the idealistic founders of the Net and Web, and the ideologists behind Open Source.
But as interesting as it is, and important as some of its applications and implications already are, I personally don't believe peer-to-peer will move beyond the interests and worklives of a relative handful of computer technologists, many of whom seem to have lost touch with the needs, aspirations, frustrations and lives of middle-class Americans, who are always -- always -- the people who decide which media technologies will actually revolutionize the world and which will not.
Consumers seem quite happy to buy their books in bookstores or online, in one piece and in traditional form. Nobody is abandoning movies, magazines aren't vanishing, even the record industry racked up more money than ever before last year: $15 billion.
When peer-to-peer advocates cite the telephone as an example of P2P's usefulness, seeking perhaps to piggy-back on its astonishing success and truly revolutionary impact, they ought to stop and think. People who were geographically isolated, whose lives often depended on getting in touch with the outside world, who desperately needed a way of talking quickly with one another, found that the phone provided an essential technological utility at little cost and with considerable reliability.
To use their new technology, they simply had to order it, and someone came to their house and installed it. Almost from the first, it was inexpensive and comprehensible. People didn't have to manipulate it, and the old AT&T, like many pre-corporatist companies, understood the notion of tech support and customer service. If the thing didn't work, somebody came to your house and fixed it or replaced it pronto. You didn't have to discuss it with them on the phone for hours, either. Especially after the first decade or so, the phone company took completely responsibility for creating and maintaining the technologies they brought into homes.
For anyone in the computer industry to compare that level of service and support with complex new information technologies in which the point is that nobody is in charge or responsible for explaining or fixing things is absurd. The public would be crazy to buy that argument. Peer-to-peer is touted as a democratizing force in computing, but it's hard to imagine a time when more than a handful of people will be able to understand, let alone use, it.
The explosion on moderating, filtering and other individualistic systems in recent years has touched off a wave of narcissistic media and culture online -- people talking to themselves, rating one another's comments, limiting their communications to pre-selected or like-minded people, or trading data, nodes and files as much for the sake of it as for any urgently needed utility.
Now comes the much-heralded P2P, another potential plunge into personalized, chaotic and subterranean communications. Is this what the Net is really about, every invididual talking to every other individual at the same time, nobody really able to grasp, comprehend or evaluate what they are seeing, where it came from, or knowing who else might be seeing it?
In nearly 400 pages of intelligent, mostly complex and technical discussions about the evolution of peer-to-peer, from Jeremie Miller on "Conversational Technologies" to Adam Langley on "Mixmaster Remailers," to Brandon Wiley on "Interoperability Through Gateways," only two clearly significant utilities were mentioned -- file-sharing systems like Napster, which has a central server and isn't technically a peer-to-peer technology, which is why the government and entertainment industry could cripple it, and the fact that P2P threatens to make censorship impossible. But governments have little to fear from P2P. Since everyone is an equal content provider, goes the theory, it would be almost impossible for any significant mass of people to ever see the same message.
In his essay, Shirky offers a litmus test for anybody who is confused about P2P: l. Does it treat variable connectivity and temporary network addresses as the norm?, and 2. Does it give the nodes at the edges of the network significant autonomy? So Napster is P2P because the addresses of Napster nodes bypass the DNS system. Intel's "server peer-to-peer" is not P2P, because servers have always been peers. ICQ and Jabber are P2P because not only do they devolve connection management to the individual nodes once they resolve the address, they violate "the machine-centric worldview" encoded in the DNS system. E-mail is not P2P, because your address is not machine independent.
People's technology needs are clear, especially when it comes to the Net. They are looking to trade stocks, do research, talk about sex, buy stuff on EBay, play games and quizzes, or e-mail Uncle Charlie. At this juncture, the tech world seems on the edge of literally sinking into esoteric, exotic new programming and connective technologies that simply make little coherent sense for the overwhelming bulk of technology users, who are already enraged at the cost, poor quality and lack of service involving the outrageously-unsupported technologies they have, from cell phones to computers to DSL. And they are frustrated at a media environment, from telephones to computers, in which noone seems responsible for anything, from dumb and hostile or commercial messaging to minimal tech support. Peer-to-peer is designed to have no central authority.
This seems like the wrong technology at the wrong time. Only five percent of the country even has broadband, and the number isn't likely to go much higher soon, especially with an administration in Washington which has made it crystal clear that it doesn't want to pay for the required infrastructure.
There's a difference between neat stuff and significant stuff. Peer-to-Peer: Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies does a great job of explaining how P2P works, all the way down to free riding and scalability.
But it fails to tell us why people outside of the technical world should really care. It raises many more questions than it answers. It fails to address the true social implications of technologies like this: do Harry and Martha in Dubuque need peer-to-peer?


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This all stems from the new law allowing the Food and Drug Administration to finally regulate tobacco products. You see, for all these years, Big Tobacco has played "legalese" with the federal government and in doing so has exempted themselves from the same laws that mandate ingredient listings on almost everything including food, cosmetics, medicines, etc. That's why you know how much sodium there is in your mac and cheese, but not how much poison there is in your tobacco product.
The new labeling is part of this new Tobacco Regulation. Later next year, there will be images added to the cigarette packaging that will cover about half of the package. The images are designed to convey the negative aspects of using tobacco products. This does four things. One, it detracts from the usual colorful, glamorous packaging that has caught the eye of millions of inquisitive young people. And secondly, it finally mandates that the tobacco companies use some "true in advertising." It also provides important, more visible health warnings and finally, the packaging is mandated to provide Tobacco Quitline information to all users.
Forty-three other countries mandate similar types of cigarette packaging including Canada, Mexico, Israel, Iran, and most of Europe. And the FDA has used data from these other countries to design the most effective messages possible. Now finally the tobacco industry will have to spend their own money to show what their products do. I can hardly wait until the tobacco companies, like the rest of consumer products, must provide ingredient information to the public. Then we will know what poisons they have added to tobacco products for decades.
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NASA, those innocently naive guys... they should have asked NSA before sending in the rovers.
NASA is part of the NSA. Who do you think puts their spy satellites up?
And it's obvious that the NSA needs to keep on eye on Mars, too. There have been credible [imdb.com] threats [imdb.com] to Earth from that planet and I think the NSA's budget should be increased to *bahDaDa* ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS!
NASA doens't launch spy satellite. The air force does, and that mostly from Vandenberg AFB.
The really sad thing is that, of the two movies you mentioned, _Mars Attacks!_ has a more credible initial premise than the recent version of _War of the Worlds_. Seriously, which is a more credible invasion plan: send your ships to Earth to attack or bury your ships on Earth in preparation for an attack on people who don't even live there at the time?
This is nice and all, but I think the real news here is that Opportunity is, although aged, still alive and kicking.
Design basis lifespan: 90 Mars days (~93 Earth days)
Actual operating lifespan: >9 years so far
like a trilobite of sorts. however, our rovers don't have a big enough shovel. It seems many people are getting bored with Mars, it has been said (and I agree) don't send another rover unless you bring something back. It would be nice to have another rover that can explore regions where geologists really want to go (but difficult to do the engineering to get it there), but with NASA has a flat budget and it will become more difficult to simply sustain the budgets as they are.
OTOH with so many spacecraft that are operating beyond their planned lifetime, these operating costs drain funding from developmental programs (should we let them die, i.e. Spirit and Opportunity, so we can get on with new stuff?). What about spacecraft to Europa (there's lots more water there, and is there little fishies under the ice?) unless the radiation is so intense don't bother to plan a mission which survivability is zilch?
Regarding Curiosity, it is providing extensive data per sampling, mapping, photos, etc. and provides much excitement for researchers studying the planet. I think issue is such excitement is seen as pretty dry stuff among the general public. Perhaps Mars has a identity problem. We have this huge fascination that seems fueled by science fiction and we get caught up in a human mission to Mars, and one person on another forum called such a mission a myth (it ain't gonna happen with current budgets and only chemical propulsion). Excluding Dennis Tito's flyby which seems to be feasible but not easy.
It seems many people are getting bored with Mars, it has been said (and I agree) don't send another rover unless you bring something back.
Yes, you're right, many people are boring idiots.
"Anything you can do, I can do better..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfHBPusZg6E [youtube.com]
It was just less than two weeks ago that NASA announced [slashdot.org] the 100th discovery of water on Mars. Being the true trend setters that they are, NASA continues to discover water where it is previously been discovered before.
neither too acidic nor too alkaline for life
Wouldn't it be lovely to know what the limits of acidity (or alkalinity) are for life in general. We don't even know, for sure, what the limits are for life on Earth, because we don't have a full catalogue of life forms on earth. We don't have any representatives of life on other planets, and we don't know if there are other possible chemistries on which life can work.
Even within a DNA-and-protein chemistry, we don't know the real limits ; we don't know of any ex
1 1 was a race-horse, 2 2 was 1 2. When 1 1 1 1 race, 2 2 1 1 2.


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Spoiler for His blog updates pretty fast, so for most of the time, so I go there instead of Google'ing:
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Maybe in chap 239, hina 'll promise rooting for Hayate x A-tan, so dissapointed if spoiler for chap 238 is true T_T ( why Hata !! why !!! ).
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So it would still to another misunderstanding one way or another.
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She won't do such a thing. Now that she understands her own feelings she can't possibly root for another person.
If the chapter ends with Hayate explaining about Athena, then all Hina can do is listen.
Well, let's say it ends with him telling her how things are. Hina will be so surprised to hear his story that she will entirely forget about the confession, and listen on. Then she will realize how things are, how he waited 10 years to apologize...
She might ask him if he still loves her. He will probably say that he doesn't know, and this will give her some hope and time to muster a little more courage and confess the next time, if the whole Athena business doesn't go well for him.
Or she might end up giving him valuable advice and feeling like crap in the end for doing such a thing (she's just too nice of a girl, eh?). Then the next day we have a depressed Hina and a happy Hayate.
So basically the situation for her isn't going to change from what it is now. Hayate will still remain oblivious to the fact that she loves him, but what about Ayumu? She will probably ask Hina if it didn't go well, since she will be in a depressed mood.
Will Hina tell Ayumu about Hayate's relationship with a girl named Athena (complete stranger to Ayumu). Or perhaps will Ayumu misunderstand Hinagiku by seeing her in a bad mood, that she was let down, and go talk to Hayate about it? Like for example.. Hina gave Hayate advice, and that's why he's in a good mood, but by doing that she betrayed herself and is feeling sad.
Ayumu might not ask her about it, feeling it's not a good time, BUT GO HAVE A CHAT WITH HAYATE ABOUT THE CONFESSION THING (because he's in such high spirits when Hina is so depressed, that it just doesn't make any sense)?! Haha, oh wow! If that sort of thing actually does happen.... OUCH!!
For extra dramatic effect we have Maria overhear this time! Hahahaha! SHE TOTALLY MESSED UP! Depression steadily spreading over the whole group!
Then Hayate goes talk to Hina about the whole confession thing. She's totally surprised, since it's so unexpected, and all...
Well... it wouldn't end well. Not well at all.
I wonder if I guessed a few things right? Ah, now I can't wait for saturday spoilers!
~edit: Two sentences up there with the same meaning. Too lazy to fix the text, hope it doesn't confuse yah.
~edit#2: Ok, just saw this now, and I had to upload it. RUNNN HAYATE RUUUUUUUUNNNNNN! LoL.
Spoiler for OH SHIT! Nagi heard about Athena!:
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I'm not at all surprised that the date will end without any major developments. But Hinagiku was just happy to be out with Hayate AND he didn't screw anything up during the dinner. You've got to admit, for him that's actually pretty impressive.
What happens afterward is going to be tough to predict, I think we're in for a massive curveball soon. The date wasn't a waste of time at least as it showed that Hayate and Hinagiku both have a good time out together and even Nagi didn't seem to mind. It's a little odd actually that she was totally paranoid of the butler giving her a birthday present fearing she would fall for him, then lets him go on a date with her no problem. I bet Nagi's going to find out something from Ayumu soon, but for now I think the whole revelation for the group is going to be focused on Athena.
Can't wait for the next two chapters now!
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I think it'll depend on how Hina takes it. If Hayate tells her enough about that past, and about the person he was with, and if Hina connects the dots properly (i.e. who the girl who made Hayate this way is, and why Athena didn't allow her to call her A-tan), then what will she do? If she doesn't ask any further about their relationship (which is much like Hina), then perhaps she'll assume right away Hayate still loves Athena (which may, or may not be true) and she'll simply decide not to try confessing again.
This way she'll effectively have become like Ayumu - whilst Ayumu has remained in the "waiting for Hayate's reply" Hina will be stuck in the confession area.
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RSL-COLTS are right back in the mix for the Whitney Cup minor premiership after posting a four-wicket win over ladder leaders Rugby on Saturday.
While the win doesn't quite put them back in front of their rivals, it ensures Rugby won't be able to slip up over the final month of the regular season.
Colts resumed on day two at 2/36, still needing 137 runs for victory.
With Rugby pressing hard for an early wicket, Colts stars Brad Cox (61) and Greg Buckley (22) were able to add a further 53 runs before both men fell in the space of four runs to leave the total 4/93.
Despite having times where they applied pressure, Rugby couldn't land the knockout blow as captain Chris Morton (24), Jason Ryan (28) and Paul Hulthen (25) made contributions that saw their side home with four wickets and 30 overs to spare in the day.
For Morton, the win was important not only for his side's position on the ladder but also for a mental edge leading into the finals.
"I don't think we've played anywhere near our best cricket this season but we're still right on Rugby's tail and we've beaten them twice," Morton said.
"They're a good side and we knew it wasn't going to be easy to get the runs.
"There was still a bit in the deck for the first 30 overs or so but 'Coxy' and Greg handled that and didn't let them get that early wicket that would have given them a boost.
"Ideally we wouldn't have lost as many wickets and given them as many bonus points but we're still in with a chance to get that minor premiership.
"We've got CYMS and Newtown in the last two weeks so we'll get some solid cricket but if we can get a big win in either of those games we might be able to nab top spot and get a week off and straight into the grand final."
While he's happy enough with the way his side is playing, Morton says there are areas the group can improve.
And the most pressing is finding players to regularly help Cox and Morton when it comes to posting runs.
"Realistically we've had two blokes carry the load with the bat this season," Morton said.
"I think we have the best top six in the competition but only two of them have fired consistently this season.
"If the rest of us can find some form in the next few weeks it will go a long way towards helping us in the finals."


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Lately the clever ways architects and photographers have been showing off architecture with colorful lights has been catching my eye. Case in point: Hotel G in Hong Kong, found via Tablet.
Those of you who have stuck with this blog for a long time know that I have a think for buildings that remind me of playing Jenga (which I stink at, by the way). I spied this rendering of Vertical Omotesando by WAI Architecture over on design boom and my Jenga hand got the shakes with excitement. I love the smaller lit volumes within the greater tower's volume. According to the article, this assemblage was inspired by the horizontal rhythm of the buildings on the street below. The icing on the cake is the way they rendered the glowing colors inside.
This sculpture by Brooklyn artist Tom Fruin has been making the rounds, physically and online. It's called Kolonihavehus, after modest garden sheds in Copenhagen. It's made of over 1,000 reclaimed pieces of plexiglass. I'm not sure which is more striking; the shot of it all lit up at night, or the way it glows in broad daylight:
If you don't already know the rest of this building, you'll be very surprised when you see it, which is what makes this colored wall even more of a delight. It's the Solar S. Roque Gallery by Manuel Maia Gomes, and it's located in Vila do Condo, Portugal. Be sure to check out the rest of the virtual tour at ArchDaily.
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Deer vs. Motorcycle – Early Morning Accident
A motorcyclist was traveling through the Quivera Wildlife Refuge area early this morning when a deer darted in front of him. He was injured in the accident, but able to crawl back to roadway. And luckily he had a cell phone to call for help.
Initial information provided the roadway location as K-19 which is in western Stafford County. The actual location was in eastern Stafford County (K-19 turns into 140th Street on the east side of Highway 281).
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Current NCAA Individual Rankings
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - The UC Santa Barbara women's indoor track and field team has gotten off to a great start and it looks like they aren't slowing down any time soon. The Gauchos are currently ranked 30th in the NCAA Division I, the only Big West team in the top-50. The only other Big West team in the rankings is Long Beach State which is ranked 136th.
Senior Barbara Nwaba returns to UCSB after competing unattached last season as well as representing Team USA at the Thorpe Cup where she finished 8th in the heptathlon. At last weekend's University of Washington Invitational, Nwaba placed first collegiately, second overall, in the pentathlon with a score of 4,244. This score met the 'A' standard for the NCAA Indoor Championships where she will be competing March 9-10 in Nampa, Idaho.
Nwaba couldn't have been happier about her pentathlon score. "I'm happy about the score I put up last week! My goal was to put up an auto qualifying mark for the pentathlon and compete hard, so I'm glad I was able to do both. On top of hitting her goals, she was also pleasantly surprised about her high jump results. "I had a great time at the high jump. To jump that high this early in the season was shocking but its a good indicator of how much stronger and better I am getting at the event," comments Nwaba.
Nwaba is currently ranked number two in the NCAA Divison I behind Canadian, Brianne Theisen of University of Oregon who set a new Candian pentathlon record with her total score of 4,555. Nwaba is also ranked number three in the NCAA this year for her high jump mark of 6-0.5 which she cleared at the UW Invite.
Redshirt Junior Irene Kujore has also contributed significantly to the Gauchos' top-30 ranking with her weight throw of 64-9.25 at the UW Invite. The mark ranks Kujore 19th in the NCAA.
Senior Maureen Ajoku, in her last indoor season of eligibility, has also made an impact for UCSB this season. Ajoku scored 3,688 at the UW Invite, placing fifth overall and narrowly missing the top-33 NCAA pentathlete list by 81 points.
The UCSB track and field coaching staff was excited to find out about their top-30 ranking on Wednesday.
"This women's team was looking very good in practice and I think the coaching staff didn't realize how much they wanted to compete and they proved it in their first two meets," said head coach Pete Dolan.
Despite UCSB's relatively young history competing during the indoor season, the veteran athletes were able to figure out the nuances between indoor and outdoor track and that has significantly contributed to their success so far this year.
"We're all impressed," Dolan said. "It's only our fourth year of indoor track and the returners have finally figured out the difference between indoor and outdoor track."
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I've been HIV+ for about 5 years, and I've been on Combivir/Viracept for the last 3.5 years or so. While taking the drugs my vl was always undetectable, and my CD4s were between 600-1200 (usually high 700s). I've also been on testosterone replacement therapy (200mg/2wks) for four years, and on oxandrin for the last six months.
I just got my second cholesterol test in about a month back with HDL <3, four months earlier it was at 13 (my total cholesterol has been rising from 143 five years ago, to just over 200 at the last test). My dr. is thinking it might be due to the steroids, however all I could find on the net indicated this had only been seen in association with lipodystrophy. I was wondering if you had any information about this.
I've stopped the HIV medication (on dr's order) due to elevated CPK (1200), and VL is steady at ~12,000 (CD4 998). My dr. wants me to stop the steroids also, however I'm concerned that if HDL goes back up we will not know why (and the fact that I tend to have major depressive symptoms when I'm off testosterone for too long...) Comments?
Response from Dr. Hellerstein
You ask a tough question, but I have seen and heard of several cases like yours. Plus, we published a clinical study using testosterone and oxandrin, and measured HDL levels. So I may be able to help a little.
First, low HDL levels are now common in patients on antiretroviral therapy (especially protease inhibitors), usually in conjunction with high levels of blood triglycerides (more important in this particular association than blood cholesterol). So it would be useful, to start, to know your blood triglyceride level. If it is high (>200 mg/dl, or so) then this should be treated.
Second, the use of oral androgen analogues (anabolics, like oxandrolone or oxymethalone) definitely cause a significant lowering of HDL levels. In our study, HDL levels fell by about 9 mg/dl (from about 28 to 19, roughly). This may vary between people, however. Maybe you are very sensitive to the effect. I have recently learned of 2 patients just like yourself, who had levels of HDL below 5 or 10 mg/dl on a regimen like yours. Although oxandrolone (taken at 20 mg/day, by the way -- is this your dose?) is a terrific agent that worked beautifully to increase muscle mass and strength when combined with exercise in our study (JAMA, 1999), this lowering of HDL was the one major adverse effect. In your case, it seems highly likely that this is the major factor at work to lower your HDL.
Testosterone itself does not usually have such a major impact on HDL (modest lowering, at worst). So you need NOT discontinue your testosterone, to allow recovery of HDL levels, based on the published clinical evidence.
Finally, some people have constitutionally low HDL levels. If you knew what your levels started at, it might help (do you have any results from many years ago, for example?).
My guess is that your levels would come up to about 20 mg/dl if you stopped the oxandrolone. You may need to reduce triglycerides or try other strategies to get it higher than that. But it should be better than it is now, which is a dangerously low level (high risk for heart disease).
Good luck!
Marc Hellerstein, M.D., Ph.D.
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Sam Freeman will celebrate the 4th of July by watching eight simultaneous fireworks displays.
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In celebration of Independence Day, Sam Freeman has figured out that he can see all eight fireworks displays being held on Liberty Island by climbing Mt. Franklin just before dusk. From there, Sam will be able to see the displays held in the eight island towns, which are on the horizon at points due NW, N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, and W from atop Mt. Franklin. Each town's fireworks display will be held at a location within that town, variously at Atlantic Pier, Courthouse Square, Cypress Beach, Dunes Country Club, Grove Stadium, Marley Mall, Porpoise Park, and Whaler's Wharf. From the clues below about the view from atop the hill, can you determine how Sam will watch the festivities: the compass point at which each town lies from Mt. Franklin and the location within each town at which the 4th of July fireworks will be exploding?
Grove Stadium isn't in Fort Dudley or Tideside.
Sam will turn 90 degrees clockwise from the 4th of July explosions in Henrytown to see the fireworks set off on the Atlantic Pier in another town, then turn another 90 degrees clockwise to watch the display in Crab Point.
Courthouse Square isn't Crab Point's fireworks venue.
In consecutive order on the horizon turning clockwise Sam will see the fireworks at the Marley Mall, the display in Clearhaven, and the bombs bursting in air over Whaler's Wharf.
The town where the Independence Day celebration will be held at Dunes Country Club is due south of the town whose festivities are at Cypress Beach.
After watching the display in Seal Harbor, Sam can turn a full 180 degrees and watch the fireworks in Plimouth; if he then turns 45 degrees counterclockwise from Plimouth, he will see the event held at Courthouse Square in a third Liberty Island town.
When Sam turns a full 180 degrees from the fireworks in Fort Dudley, the display he'll be watching won't be the one taking place in New Salem.
The Grove Stadium display isn't the one that Sam will see NE of Mt. Franklin.
In consecutive order on the horizon turning clockwise Sam will see the display in Tideside, then the event at Porpoise Park in another town, and then the fireworks over Fort Dudley.
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Author(s): Prepared by: Washington Sea Grant
This document was developed to provide shoreline planners and managers with a summary of current science and management recommendations to inform protection of ecological functions of marine riparian areas (defined in Section III). Washington Administrative Code (WAC 173-26-186(8)) directs that Shoreline Master Programs (SMPs) "include policies and regulations designed to achieve no net loss of those ecological functions." The Washington State Department of Ecology has produced guidelines to help achieve this standard on marine shorelines of Washington. In addition, the state's Aquatic Habitat Guidelines (AHG) program developed recommendations for protecting marine riparian functions: Protecting Nearshore Habitat and Function in Puget Sound: An interim Guide (2007). The AHG program is a partnership of state agencies dedicated to providing science guidance for protection of marine, freshwater, and riparian ecosystems. The AHG program develops guidance documents that can aid local governments updating Shoreline Master Programs (SMP) and Critical Areas Ordinances (CAO).
This information contained in this report will help inform local decisions regarding what is needed to protect ecological functions of marine riparian areas. Specifically, we summarize the range of marine riparian buffer widths (Appendix G) needed to meet particular levels of ecosystem function based on a literature review and input from an expert panel workshop.
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Puget Sound's marine shorelines and riparian areas have been altered over the last 160 years by human activities including agriculture, forestry and development. Nearly all of the merchantable timber along the marine shorelines of Puget Sound was harvested or burned by 1884 (Chasan, 1981). Although natural regeneration of riparian vegetation occurred in the years that followed, human manipulation of vegetation continues to influence marine shorelines today.
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CARLINVILLE, Ill.-- The Greenville College Softball team traveled to Blackburn to take on the Beavers in a double-header. The team won the first game 3-2 but could not pull off the sweep and fell in game two 4-3.
In the first game, Greenville got on the board first with a run in the bottom of the third when Mattie Fairchild singled to bring Bryn McKie home. Blackburn scored in the top of the fifth to tie the game at 1-1 where it remained until the 8th. Blackburn scored in the top of the inning and thought they had the game in the bag until Fairchild doubled sending Shannon Elbe across home plate for the Panther run before the Beavers ended the inning. This meant the game was tied again and the teams headed into a 9th inning. GC was able to keep the Beavers from scoring in the top of the inning and headed into the bottom of the 9th hoping for a chance to close the game. Fortunately, that chance came when Fairchild singled once again to send McKie home for the winning run.
GC out-hit Blackburn 12-6 in the game. Fairchild went 4 for 5, earned 3 RBI, and hit two doubles to lead GC's offense. Ashley Woodrome pitched the entire game for GC. She faced 32 batters and allowed just 5 hits and 2 runs.
The second game was another close battle between the two SLIAC teams. GC once again earned the first runs of the game when Fairchild once again sent McKie home. Fairchild's hit was quickly followed by a single from Andrea Martin that allowed Shannon Elbe to score for GC. Blackburn answered in the fourth inning with two runs of their own to tie the game 2-2. In the top of the 5th, Fairchild crossed the base for GC, which brought the score to 3-2 in favor of the Panthers. Greenville's thought they were going to earn the sweep until the last inning of the game when the Beavers scored two runs and ended the game 4-3, Blackburn.
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Much like the big club, the Crunch have a Third Period collapse against the Pens.
Riku Helenius allowed 5 goals on 26 shots for the loss.
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Eric Neilson and Mike Angelidis were the game's first and second stars. Things got out of hand in the Third Period (obviously) after Cedric Paquette (who also got his first professional goal in the game) took a Game Misconduct for boarding that led to a pair of Penguins goals that helped flip the outcome.
Syracuse is off until Friday when they'll face Binghamton.
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What Do You Think About 'Middleton Eyes'?
Am I the only one who's noticed the way that Kate Middleton lines her eyes? It's sort of Tara Reid circa "American Pie," but less drunk.
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Mr. James (Jim) Jones, age 96, of Murray, Ky. died at 5:30 a.m. Wednesday at his home.
Mr. James (Jim) Jones, age 96, of Murray, Ky. died at 5:30 a.m. Wednesday at his home. He was born Feb. 18, 1917 in Centerville to the late Charles and Bertha (Stanley) Jones.
Jim was a member of The First Christian Church in Aurora, Ky., the V.F.W., the American Legion, a U.S. Army WWII Veteran and the retired co-owner of Twin Lakes Shoreline Improvement Co. along with Bob Ross and later Jim McNeely.
He is survived by his wife; Maxine (Pierson) Jones to whom he was married Dec. 22, 1970; two step daughters Vonnie Crowder of Hattiesburg, Miss. and Jan Erkman (Ed) of Murray, Ky.; nine grandchildren; 21 great grandchildren; and four great great grandchildren.
Mr. Jones was preceded in death by six sisters; Martha Watkins, Nancy Stone, Bessie Hunsinger, Maude Whiting, Mary Jones and Grace Jones; and one brother, Lewis Jones.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, May 3 at Blalock-Coleman and York Funeral Home with Pastor Ivan Judge officiating. Friends may visit from 12 p.m. until 2 p.m. Friday at Blalock-Coleman and York.
Pallbearers will be Bob Ross, Jim McNeely, Walter Arnold, Travis Russell and Glen Olson.
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Great suggestion about handing over a color chart. I always used to get frustrated that developers would add their own colors on form components that were a poor match to site template. Then, as you alluded to, I discovered that just because I love photoshop for web design-storming doesn't mean that the code-jockeys do.
I started handing over the color keys and all became right in the world.
Another technique that sometimes works (if you have open minded developers) is to allow the designers to pre-design everything including mockups of the forms and interfaces. This can be done as early as the spec creation and can be of tremendous benefit to the sales team when finalizing projects with clients. This mockup can be used through the entire life cycle.


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LICINIUS II as Caesar 317-324 AD
Poor little Licinius Jr...
His father, Licinus I was the Emperor in the East, his mother was Constantia, the sister of his arch rival, Constantine in the West. This was the age of Diocletian's Tetrarchy and at that time, Constantine had four grown sons, each a general; Crispus, Constantine II, Constans and Constantius II, but Licinius I had only one under-aged son, a little fat boy simply too young to take the reins or help his father to rule in any manner. After a losing decisive battle in 324, Licinius I, Constantia and Licinius Jr, fled but never found a safe haven. After their capture by the troops of Constantine, Licinius I was executed. There are two tales concerning the final fate of Licinius Jr.; one tells that he was sold into slavery (doubtful) and the other is that he was executed as an Enemy of the State (more likely)...at just twelve years old.
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Memorial Day tennis anyone? I would love to get a couple of sets in early morning if anyone is up for it. Any time after 8am is great for me!
Yes next thursday I am in for the doubles as well
Hey Rock, Phillip, and Bryce...I'll see you guys at Garfield Park on Thursday at 4:30....
sorry it didnt' work out Rock. I ended up playing with some friends at a local park and man was it hot! Got a little more color now :0
Rock or Bryce do you have to meet up on thur at 3:30 and get a little more hitting in before the match?
If Bart comes we'd be at 5 and a 6th would make for singles and doubles if we get both courts.
Also varied arrivals, Phil and I were going to meet around 3:30 to do some drills and I think someone arriving at 4:30... either way, it will be a hot one... come along, I'm sure a good sweat will be had by all.
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During college, it was easy. Be sick, skip class, whatever I had to do. My brother and I were going to watch the NCAA tourney. However, since starting my "career" in the real world, the Thursday and Friday of the first weekend of March Madness has been a huge challenge. Since everyone I work with knows I'm into sports, and especially college bball, calling in sick those days doesn't really work for me. So, I'm learning how to get myself in front of a TV during work hours on those days. It's not been easy.
My first year out of school, working in a new town, I didn't really have a good idea of where to go. So, I headed over to a department store, figured out how to change the channel on one of the TVs, and stood there for over an hour watching the tournament. The employees' eyeballs can only sear your flesh for so long before you become immune to it. On days like this, it didn't matter. After being asked if I needed any help for the third time, they determined I was probably not there to purchase a 42", or a SD Video cable, or even a Spaceballs DVD.
Another year, my sister and I headed to a mom-and-pop cafeteria where we knew there would be a TV. Usually, no one is paying attention to it, and we figured it would be no problem to have it tuned to CBS. Well, with a little coercion, we were nodding our heads to the March Madness theme music. Just as Clark Kellogg was serenading us, the owner's granddaughter decides it's her time to watch cartoons, which I suppose are much more important to her. As panic set in, I tried convincing myself that the guys from Wiggles are actually semi-talented. Maybe they are, but I wasn't going to find out. Not this day.
I dragged some of my work buddies to a well-known sandwich shop one year, knowing that the TVs were there and reachable. Well, that turned out to be a bad thing, as all my 6'4" reach was able to do is shut down the cable box. This resulted in me being asked not to "mess with the television." What is the deal? Does no one in this town watch the best tournament known to man? Again, the familiar panic and frustration set in.
This year, I am once again trying to enjoy the NCAA's March Madness On Demand, which is a spectacular idea from the NCAA heads. So, I've scouted out locations where I can get Wi-Fi access to watch the games, and I can only come up with one place. Krystal. The southern version of Harold and Kumar would be proud. So, I'm sitting here now, surprised at another year of how the tournament viewing has gone for me. I have to do it though, because the alternative is to not watch, and that's not an alternative.
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Recent News
Posted on: 10 May, 2013
Holcim (US) Inc.'s Ada plant was recently recognized for its partnership with East Central University, concerning its innovative collaboration that strengthen Oklahoma's workforce.
Posted on: 10 May, 2013
May 13-17 is National Prevention Week and the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, the Pontotoc County Drug Free Coalition (PCDFC) and the Brandon Whitten Institute for Addiction and Recovery at East Central University are encouraging everyone to take an active interest in the welfare of the state's young people.
That welfare is especially critical when it involves activities that could be risky, harmful or even deadly.
Posted on: 09 May, 2013
Balancing rapport and firmness with students is an integral part of being a teacher.
Posted on: 08 May, 2013
East Central University student Newakis Girdley has been selected to participate in the National Education for Women (N.E.W.) Leadership Institute on May 17-21 in Norman.
Posted on: 07 May, 2013
Clarissa Willis, Ph.D, an author, consultant and professional development specialist, will present "Teaching Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder" on Saturday, May 18, at East Central University's Estep Multimedia Center inside the Bill S. Cole University Center.
Posted on: 07 May, 2013
R. Alan Marcum, executive vice president for administration at Devon Energy, will address graduating East Central University students during commencement ceremonies on Saturday, May 11, 2013 at the Kerr Activities Center.
Posted on: 07 May, 2013
Veterans and Military Appreciation Day, hosted by the East Central University Veterans Upward Bound Program, is set for Thursday, May 23, at the Bill S. Cole University Center on the ECU campus.
Posted on: 03 May, 2013Twenty-one intersession classes are being offered through East Central University in Ada, beginning May 13 as an opportunity to earn three credit hours in one week rather than the traditional 18-week semester.


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Every so often those people we elect in Washington attempt to do something so egregious for their corporate donors that it shakes the very foundation of our democracy. Well, it is happening again in the form of HR 3409, a bill proposed by the coal industry and disguised by the helpful-sounding title "Coal Miner Employment and Domestic Energy Infrastructure Protection Act." After all, who could be against employment during a recession, and we all know that our infrastructure needs protecting, right?
So here is what this bill would actually do if it passes. According to govtrack.us, it would completely take away the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to issue regulations between now and Dec. 31, 2013, under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977. In other words, it would take away most of the federal government's oversight of the coal industry when it comes to strip mining and other unsavory practices as well as eliminate the fed's ability to declare certain areas off limits to coal mining.
Just think of the real jobs that would be created: more biologists to study the extinction of amphibians due to acid rain, more health care workers to handle the additional asthma attacks and other pulmonary side effects of burning coal, more lawyers to litigate the surface damages after the companies abandon their mines, leaving a giant scar where a hill once stood. And ultimately more morticians to make sure that those who pass as a result of breathing in what comes out of the stacks of energy companies look good on their big day.
It's spring and there's a buzz in the air. Literally.
Bee swarm season starts in mid-April and carries on until June. And while it's tempting to swat them away, the population of swarming yellow and black insects includes honeybees, which are key in pollinating crops. Honeybee populations are decreasing by about 35 percent each year.
The swarms, the size of a football or soccer ball, often hang off tree branches or bushes.
Swarms are not aggressive.
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With all we now know about elephants, their intelligence, their loyalty to one another, their majestic beauty in the wild, it is difficult to imagine that humans are once again beginning to slaughter these creatures for their ivory tusks and the trinkets that can be carved from them.
Charlie Mayhew of Tusk Trust recently told NBC News, "What we have witnessed over the last 18 months or two years has been a significant escalation in the poaching of both rhino for rhino horn and elephant for ivory, fueled by sort of a dramatic increase in demand from consumers in the Far East. Last year we believe that as many as 35,000 elephants may have been slaughtered for their ivory."
One of the worst hit areas is in Cameroon, where so far this year nearly 650 elephants in one national park have been slaughtered for their tusks. This represents more than half of the elephant population of the entire park.
All of this carnage is transpiring despite a U.N. agreement that supposedly bans the international trade of ivory. Unfortunately, some cashstrapped African countries that claim to have stockpiles of ivory harvested from prior to the U.N. ban have sought and received exemptions for selling their ivory stocks.
This sanctioned sale of ivory is what has created the cover for today's poachers to sell their recently harvested tusks on the black market.
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I know, right? It evokes such fantastic images as shitting down a decapitated alien's neck!
Way better than that Picasso dude.
Well it's better than looking at some "random" naked fat lady that sold for 124M £
Where the heck is the Apple ][ category
*sniff* no Loom, Monkey Island, Guardian Heroes.
* Although there isn't much to do in Shadow of the Colossus other than
killing the colossi and sightseeing, you'll find yourself captivated
enough by the scenery to sink hours into just wandering around the
place and drinking in the beauty of the setting. Scenery Porn at its
finest. [ http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SceneryPorn [tvtropes.org] ]
http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2012/games/featuredgames/ [si.edu]
* Atari VCS
Pac-Man (Action), Space Invaders (Target), Pitfall! (Adventure), Combat® (Tactics)
* ColecoVision
Donkey Kongâ (Action), Zaxxon (Target), Pitfall II: Lost Caverns (Adventure), Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator (Tactics)
* Intellivision
TRON: MazeâAtron (Action), Star Strike (Target), Advanced Dungeons and Dragons (Adventure), Utopia (Tactics)
* Commodore 64
Jumpman (Action), Attack of the Mutant Camels (Target), The Bard's Tale III: Thief of Fate (Adventure), Pirates! (Tactics)
* Nintendo Entertainment System
Super Mario Brothers 3 (Action), 1943: The Battle of Midway (Target), The Legend of Zelda (Adventure), Desert Commander (Tactics)
* SEGA Master System
Marble Madness (Action), After Burner (Target), Phantasy Star (Adventure), Spy vs Spy (Tactics)
* SEGA Genesis
Earthworm Jim (Action), Gunstar Heroes (Target), Phantasy Star IV (Adventure), Dune II: Battle for Arrakis (Tactics)
* Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Super Mario World (Action), Star Foxâ (Target), The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (Adventure), SimCity (Tactics)
* SEGA Saturn
Tomb Raider (Action), Panzer Dragoon II: Zwei (Target), Panzer Dragoon Saga (Adventure), SimCity 2000 (Tactics)
* DOS/Windows
DOOM II (Action), Diablo II (Target), Fallout (Adventure), StarCraft (Tactics)
* PlayStation
Metal Gear Solid (Action), Einhander (Target), Final Fantasy VII (Adventure), Final Fantasy Tactics (Tactics)
* Nintendo 64
Super Mario 64 (Action), Star Fox 64* (Target), The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Adventure), Worms Armageddon (Tactics)
* SEGA Dreamcast
Sonic Adventure (Action), Rez (Target), Shenmue (Adventure), ChuChu Rocket! (Tactics)
* PlayStation 2
Shadow of the Colossus (Action), Gradius V (Target), ÅOEkami (Adventure), Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (Tactics)
* Microsoft XBox
Halo 2 (Action), Panzer Dragoon Orta (Target), Fable (Adventure), Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell (Tactics)
* Nintendo GameCube
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Action), Star Foxâ: Assault (Target), The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (Adventure), Pikmin 2 (Tactics)
* Modern Windows
Portal (Action), flOw (Target), Fallout 3 (Adventure), Minecraft (Tactics)
* Microsoft XBox 360
Bioshock (Action), Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 (Target), Mass Effect 2 (Adventure), Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth II (Tactics)
* Nintendo Wii
Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Action),
That's why I thought SoC was overrated. There's not a lot to do, and it's all very samey. Once you get tired of looking at things, the game is real quick and easy to beat. Or it would be, if it didn't take so much time to navigate. I swear I spent more time riding from colossus to colossus than actually fighting them. Yawn.
You must be a different kind of game than I am. I never get tired of looking at thinks in SoC. Navigating the country was the best part of it.
It would have been more interesting if there was stuff in the world to do. Encourage me to explore by putting some chests with items, that sort of thing. I spent a lot more time aimlessly wandering the countryside in Dragon Quest VIII than SoC.
So you missed all the "catch the lizard tails to upgrade your grip power" and "ride the giant eagle to fly the countryside" and "climb the tower to visit the secret garden" and the "new game plus to unlock the magic weapons?" (How did you defeat the colossi without the lizard tails BTW)? You should be reading the game walkthroughs when you think you're missing the fun.
Where the heck is the Apple ][ category
The categories were selected based on number of units sold. That's why there's no Amiga category either.
In their defense, I don't think art critics allocate a big portion of their lifes to gaming so guessing that no gamers were actually involved in the selection going with successes might have been a save move.
Also a lot of people misunderstand gaming art for gaming themed visual art. It's not that. I personally have my own reservations to the selections, I'd like to have seen some Tale of tales [tale-of-tales.com] games in there - because those come very close to actually being art in the sense of having no other function other
The curator is Chris M, who used to be the Sun exec trying to push Java in the gaming world, and IIRC collects arcade games. So it wasn't a typical art critic who did the initial selection.
His shortlist was then put up for public vote to select one game each in a Cartesian product of four vaguely-defined genres and a number of platforms, so some gamers were involved in the selection.
Of course, the problem with involving gamers is that there's an inherent bias towards better known games, so more interesting
Agreed on SMB.
Agreed that Metroid (prferably the Game Boy Advance version =) should be included.
Along with Mortal Kombat for the SNES.
The Modern Windows version should include Limbo and/or Braid.
Also would of preferred Ico over SoC.
That sucks then. I grew up on Apple 2s, Texas Instrument 99/4A, etc. Boo! I was jealous of Amigas too!
I played some Monkey Island there... it's worth making it out to see the exhibit. I plan to go back on Sunday and stay for the dance party!
Great to see Okami, in it's day It was touted as PS2's zelda and that overshadowed it's artistic beauty.
In general it looks like a very solid list. Wish I could go.
There are only two PC game categories -- one for old DOS/Windows, and one for "modern" Windows. Eight games doesn't seem like very much for 20 years, especially when 15 of those years were very distinct from console gaming. That being said, the list of games isn't bad. Lots of recognizable and clearly significant titles. I'd actually like to see this if I get the chance.
Phantasy Star and Phantasy Star IV classified as "Adventure"? I guess they're throwing all RPG games into that category? I mean, Legend of Zelda is more Adventure than RPG but PS and PSIV are quite a bit more "open" as far as the RPG element goes.... For that matter, FFVII and Fallout3 as well.
Did you hear that two rabbits escaped from the zoo and so far they have only recaptured 116 of them?