Maybe it's not the way I'd choose to read Tolstoy (then again, neither is a Palm), but This story from Colors has a really nice look to it, and is a good example of form following emotion.

So the winners of the 5k award were announced today. War took 8th place overall, and 5th in Concept and Originality.

I got to meet some fun people along the way, and its a nice doohicky to keep around the site.

I'm already gearing up for next years contest, but what I'm really excited about is next year's perl poetry contest.

Big paper due tomorrow. Too much to do. No time to write.

5k winners announced tomorrow. I didn't come in first, but I still got some accolades (and am in the 99.5th percentile of entries!)

More to come... tomorrow!

Sifting through other 5K entries, I came across The Vocation Analyzer.

Natually I was dubious, but after answering a few question,s I know my place on this earth. Check it out:

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Career profile for Kevin:

You are a Human person who prefers to work in Pink places such as Soda Hall. Your affinity for Water, Crappy CPU, Runny nose and your Sniff skills make you well-suited to a career as a Donothing repair technician.

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Just as I thought.

Real world quiz of information architecture:

Extract meaning from the following:


0410001323
EXP:041002


While some context can be gleaned just from the bottom line, the information it provides is highly ambiguous (it could be interpreted at least 6 different ways). Adding the context of the upper line and the fact that it was found on a Crystal Geyser water bottle reduces it to about 2 interpretations, and that I bought it today in the United States from a vendor with high throughput pretty much narrows it down to one most likely interpretation (Expires April 10th, 2002), but it's an example of how people can overcome bad IA, not an example of good IA.

It's interesting to think how much effort went into designing the bottle and the label, and how little went into devising an understandable format for the expiration date.

In addition to the 5k award, to be announced this week (and that I just won't shut up about) I discovered today that the latest site I tech-led, Petstore.com, is a finalist in the Clio Awards to be announced on May 23rd.

Anyone want to fund a jaunt to New York?

• Last week of classes, then finals!
• The 5k contest results are due any day now, but a few judges are slow. I'll let you know as soon as I know!
• I'm so hungry.

Spent the beter part of the day preparing for, driving to, parking at, sneaking into, shopping at, and recuperating from IKEA. They've been open two weeks and still at 11:30am there's a line of 600 people outside the door, being let in a hundred at a time whenever a total of one hundred leave.

Forget parking in, or even sidewalks to, the latest Bay Area success story, but I can't recall the last time I had more fun shopping for furniture. They even had paper cutouts of all the desk-pieces and to-scale drawing paper so you could plan your work experience. That they devote so many more resources to helping people plan their workspaces than to plan their bedrooms shows that they really do understand the difference between Europe and the USA.

In other news Emily and I saw Frequency and gave it a pretty-good thumbs up. Very nice. PS: Is it posible for Dennis Quaid to star in a movie that doesn't have a happy ending? Do they figure it's not worth hiring him if you don't get the big toothy grin for a payoff?

I'm going for my belt test today (green tips, Taekwondo). I actually thought it was supposed to be last Thursday, and that I'd have to miss it, so I haven't been studying/practicing at all, and now I'm cramming. ("Is right backstance with the right foot forward, or left?") Anyhow, to further complicate, I don't even have a yellow belt. That is, I've earned one, but I never actually went and bought one, so I've got to see if I can find one amidst my studying in the next 4 hours, or borrow someone's for the test.

Augh!

Also, tomorrow is IKEA day. Emily and I are going to see how much of Sweden we can fit in our respective cars.

Lastly, the winners of the 5k award are going to be revealed on Monday. I can't wait! (For those who haven't taken a look yet, check out my entry, War.)

Cross your fingers and pray for the apocolypse.

A friend told me today about a study someone (with too much time) did on the 20,000 most common words in the English language. Turns out all of them have been registered in the .com TLD. Out of curiosity, I decided to check what grand purposes the low number domains are being used for:

• www.one.com - Minor telecom marcom site
• www.two.com - No DNS Entry
• www.three.com - 'Dave's place on the Internet'
• www.four.com - "How to configure Outlook Express for Internet Mail"
• www.five.com - Deadend Splash Page
• www.six.com - No DNS Entry
• www.seven.com - WorldNews.com
• www.eight.com - Layer Eight Systems (Financial Derivative Trader site(!?) )
• www.nine.com - Number Nine Visual Technology
• www.ten.com - Porn
• www.eleven.com - "Not for sale. Go away."
• www.twelve.com - Deadend Splash (Go-go Poster Bodoni)
• www.thirteen.com - Buy Me
• www.fourteen.com - No DNS Entry
• www.fifteen.com - 403 Forbidden
• www.sixteen.com - Porn
• www.seventeen.com - Seventeen Online Magazine
• www.eighteen.com - No DNS Entry
• www.nineteen.com - Porn
• www.twenty.com - 20/20 Software (Symmantec)
• www.twentyone.com - 403 Forbidden
• www.twentytwo.com - No DNS Entry