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		<title>Photos: Solar Eclipse from Los Angeles (May 2012)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 06:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had several plans for viewing today&#8217;s solar eclipse, depending on the weather. As the hour approached and clouds loomed in the west, I decided that my best bet would be to get above the cloud cover, and drove up &#8230; <a href="http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2012/05/solar-eclipse-festival/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kelsonv/sets/72157629825338642/"><img src="http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/eclipse-scoped.jpg" alt="" title="Solar eclipse seen through telescope eyepiece" width="640" height="480" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-13064" /></a></p>
<p>I had several plans for viewing today&#8217;s solar eclipse, depending on the weather. As the hour approached and clouds loomed in the west, I decided that my best bet would be to get above the cloud cover, and drove up into the hills to <a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz/del-cerro-park-rancho-palos-verdes">Del Cerro Park</a> at the top of the Palos Verdes peninsula.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m glad I did, because a lot of other people had the same idea.</p>
<p>Individuals, couples, families, groups of friends, groups from schools &#8212; and everyone had a different way to see the eclipse: pinhole cameras, binoculars projecting on cardboard, welding helmets, &#8220;eclipse glasses&#8221; and more.  There were also people who were just out for a day at the park, and wanted to know what was going on.</p>
<p>If J had been a few years older it would have been a family event for us too, but at a year and a half, I don&#8217;t think I would have been able to explain anything beyond &#8220;don&#8217;t look at the sun.&#8221;  A partial eclipse is easy to miss if you&#8217;re not paying attention.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kelsonv/7239399000/in/set-72157629825338642"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7075/7239399000_1aaf8cc876_z.jpg" alt="Eclipse Watchers" width="640" height="360" /></a></p>
<p>I&#8217;d cobbled together a pinhole camera the day before from two Amazon boxes, a sheet of paper, a sheet of aluminum foil, and lots and lots of packing tape.  I actually started with just one box and I decided the image wasn&#8217;t big enough, so I grafted on a second. Even then it was only about 3/8&#8243; across, but when testing it I could see the edges of clouds drifting across the sun, so I figured it would work. It did.  <span id="more-13055"></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kelsonv/7239397104/in/set-72157629825338642"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8165/7239397104_e54497510f_z.jpg" alt="Pinhole camera" width="640" height="480" /></a></p>
<p>I set up &#8220;shop&#8221; near a couple who were working on their own pinhole camera, but decided that mine had a better image and used their to prop mine up.  It was far from the best view of the sun, but a lot of people stopped to check it out.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kelsonv/7239402172/in/set-72157629825338642"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7213/7239402172_2e5245648b_z.jpg" alt="Approaching Totality (pinhole view)" width="640" height="480" /></a></p>
<p>One of the groups with a filtered telescope was letting anyone walk up and take a look. It was a really impressive view: still very bright, but orange, and a lot sharper than anything I could see on the pinhole camera&#8217;s screen.  I tried putting my camera up to it, but the lens was just too long. My phone, however, was just about perfect.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kelsonv/7239400410/in/set-72157629825338642"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7212/7239400410_c3342e9279_z.jpg" alt="Eclipse through filtered scope" width="640" height="478" /></a></p>
<p>The woman whose pinhole camera ended up being used as the support for mine discovered that she could aim her iPhone a little bit away from the camera and get a fainter image of the sun in the lens flare. I was surprised that the iPhone&#8217;s lens was long enough to flare, but it also pretty much confims my suspicions about the <a href="http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2008/10/eclipse-ring/">weird lunar eclipse photo</a> I found in a box a few years ago.  Naturally, I had to try my own hand at it.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kelsonv/7239401354/in/set-72157629825338642"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8148/7239401354_09a9264029_z.jpg" alt="Eclipsed Lens Flare" width="640" height="480" /></a></p>
<p>At the peak of the eclipse (what would have been totality a few hundred miles north of here), 85% of the sun&#8217;s diameter was covered. It was still too bright to look at the sun, and still broad daylight.  Though it did seem dimmer, it&#8217;s hard to be certain how much of that was it being later in the day, since at 6:38 it was only about an hour before sunset.</p>
<p>About this point, I borrowed one of the welding helmets. It felt a lot more immediate, since I wasn&#8217;t looking at a projection or a reflection.  Even the telescope, despite the large image (or perhaps in part because of it) felt more like I was looking at a picture of the eclipsed sun, which you can see anytime. Still, the welding mask made the sun look green, which made it seem a little less real.</p>
<p>The best were the eclipse glasses (made from fully-exposed photographic film). Not only was it immediate, because I was looking right at the sun, but the sun looked orange &#8211; much closer to expectations. I took a photo through the glasses, so you can see roughly what it looked like.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kelsonv/7239402658/in/set-72157629825338642"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5335/7239402658_3d14d2cbd8_z.jpg" alt="Sun viewed through eclipse glasses" width="640" height="481" /></a></p>
<p>As the afternoon wore on, the fog moved inland and up the hills. When I arrived, the ridge of Catalina Island was just barely visible above a layer of clouds, and the nearby coastline was just visible below them. By an hour in, both were buried. We were starting to wonder if the fog would block the view, but it stayed well below the sun&#8217;s elevation (even if it crept up on ours).  </p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kelsonv/7239403092/in/set-72157629825338642"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7098/7239403092_7070ce7822_z.jpg" alt="Fog rolling in" width="640" height="360" /></a></p>
<p>Shortly after the maximum eclipse, the college(?) group with the telescope gave the sun a round of applause.  As the moon blocked less and less of the sun, people started leaving, with a mass exodus around half an hour later.</p>
<p>By around 7:10, the festival atmosphere was gone. Around 100 people along the hilltop ridge dwindled down to about 20 in scattered groups. It gave the park the feeling of early evening at the beach, after most of the people out swimming or sunning have left, and those left are gathering around fire pits. A few minutes later, most of them had gone too, with only a few of us sticking around for the sunset.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kelsonv/7239406832/in/set-72157629825338642"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8147/7239406832_39858bc535_z.jpg" alt="Sunset Trees" width="640" height="360" /></a></p>
<p>A few more people arrived after all the hubbub had died down. It&#8217;s a nice evening spot to just get away from it all and watch the sea, or the clouds, or the sunset.  Locals arrived walking their dogs, and the park took on its usual feeling of solitude.</p>
<p>The fog pushed its way over the hills, not quite reaching the one where I stood, but pouring over the next ridge as the sun descended behind it. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kelsonv/7239407972/in/set-72157629825338642"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7212/7239407972_24b155f7e3_z.jpg" alt="Sunset Fog/Tree Shadows" width="640" height="360" /></a></p>
<p>By sunset, the clouds had rolled up through the foothills, blanketing the slope down to the coast.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kelsonv/7239409966/in/set-72157629825338642"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7232/7239409966_5e498178ca_z.jpg" alt="Sea of Fog" width="640" height="360" /></a></p>
<p>I&#8217;d half-hoped to get some shots of the setting sun while it was still eclipsed, but you really have to wait until it&#8217;s almost at the horizon&#8230;just a few minutes after the eclipse ended. I settled for the next best thing, and caught this shot of the sun &#8220;eclipsed&#8221; by a pair of trees.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kelsonv/7239410812/in/set-72157629825338642"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7220/7239410812_5451751db4_z.jpg" alt="Post-Eclipse Sunset" width="640" height="360" /></a></p>
<p>I&#8217;d left the pinhole camera by a bench facing outward toward the sea. After the sun dipped below the horizon, I walked back to retrieve it. It ended its life as a dog toy.</p>
<p>So it goes.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kelsonv/7239411434/in/set-72157629825338642"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7073/7239411434_8501976eed_z.jpg" alt="Sunset after the Eclipse" width="640" height="360" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kelsonv/sets/72157629825338642/">Full photoset on Flickr</a>.</p>
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		<title>Delicious, Twitter, and Linkblogging</title>
		<link>http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2012/05/delitwit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 03:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The classic link-sharing site Delicious is still around, trying to find a niche in the new social media world. One of the things they&#8217;ve recently done is set up a way to import all links you post on Twitter. It &#8230; <a href="http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2012/05/delitwit/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The classic link-sharing site Delicious is still around, trying to find a niche in the new social media world.  One of the things they&#8217;ve recently done is set up a way to <a href="http://blog.delicious.com/2012/03/tweet-a-link-save-a-link/">import all links you post on Twitter</a>.  It does a historical import when you link the account, and then pulls in new tweets going forward.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a cool idea, depending on how you use the sites, and they&#8217;ve made it just flexible enough that anyone who might want to do this in the first place will find a way to match their use case.</p>
<p>In my case, I mainly used Delicious as an additional bookmark store that I could access across browsers and accounts, though for the most part that&#8217;s been replaced by <a href="http://xmarks.com/">Xmarks</a>. I haven&#8217;t used it as much for deliberate sharing, though I&#8217;ve posted the occasional link in the hopes that someone might notice it.</p>
<p>Anyway, I linked it up with my personal Twitter account, left the site for a few hours, then came back to see just how far back it had imported. It went back about 3 years, pulling in over 1,000 links that I&#8217;d posted to Twitter.</p>
<p>The Good:</p>
<ul>
<li>It merges duplicates.</li>
<li>Links are backdated to the day you posted the tweet.</li>
<li>All imported links are tagged with &#8220;from twitter&#8221; (you can change this), making it easy to filter.</li>
<li>Hashtags are imported as tags.</li>
<li>The text of your tweet becomes the comment.</li>
<li>It extracts titles and thumbnail images from the links.</li>
<li>It can follow <em>some</em> redirectors, including Twitter&#8217;s own t.co.</li>
</ul>
<p>The Bad:</p>
<ul>
<li>It doesn&#8217;t follow <em>all</em> redirectors. There are an awful lot of bit.ly and is.gd links in there.</li>
<li>That also means that if I tweeted the same link twice using different link shorteners, it doesn&#8217;t resolve the duplicates.</li>
<li>A lot of those links were only of short term interest.</li>
<li>Three years is plenty of time for a redirector (or, of course, a target link) to shut down.  Fortunately, it looks like I didn&#8217;t use tr.im much.</li>
<li>My blog automatically tweets links to new posts, which means every post I&#8217;ve made in the last three years is in there &#8211; the earliest with an is.gd or tinyurl link, the later ones with bit.ly. I don&#8217;t need those in my own bookmarks (with a few exceptions), and as far as sharing goes, it makes me feel spammy to plug three years&#8217; worth of backlist at once.</li>
<li>Searching for links gives you less-functional results than simply looking at your list or filtering by tag.  Not all details appear on the results page, bulk actions aren&#8217;t available, and you can&#8217;t always delete a link if you edit it from search results. This meant I couldn&#8217;t, for instance, search for &#8220;New post&#8221; or &#8220;K-Squared Ramblings,&#8221; skim the titles and bulk-delete the bookmarks to my own content.</li>
</ul>
<p>Over the last couple of weeks I&#8217;ve been taking a few minutes here and there to go through what started as 60 pages&#8217; worth of imported links, delete the ones I don&#8217;t want to keep and fix up the ones I do. It started out faster than my last <a href="http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2009/08/tweet-cleanup/">Twitter-related cleanup project</a>, but that&#8217;s because there were a lot of auto-posted links I could just delete without taking the time to evaluate or label them. It&#8217;s already slowing down.</p>
<p>I could just leave all the clutter there, but part of the point is for this to be my bookmarks-away-from-home, and it&#8217;s easier to find stuff without the extra junk.</p>
<p>On the plus side, between this and the broken link cleanup, I&#8217;m getting to see a bunch of old posts and photos I&#8217;d forgotten about. That&#8217;s been an interesting process.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s also convinced me that linkblogging round-ups really don&#8217;t belong on this blog. I still do them on <a href="http://speedforce.org/">Speed Force</a>, but that&#8217;s in part because Speed Force has readers who don&#8217;t follow the social networks. (OK, let&#8217;s be honest: because Speed Force <em>has readers</em>.) Here, where it&#8217;s just a personal site, I&#8217;m better off sticking with the best medium for each post. That means Twitter, Facebook and Google+ for short posts (barring a few categories that I&#8217;ve got history here, like <a href="http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2012/03/dead-links/">license plate spotting</a>), the blog for longer posts, and social networks for link sharing.</p>
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		<title>A matter of perspective</title>
		<link>http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2012/04/umwelt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 16:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the webcomic XKCD ran a strip, Umwelt. Or perhaps it would be better to describe it as several comic strips. As explained in the mouseover text, the title refers to the idea that because animals have different senses, &#8230; <a href="http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2012/04/umwelt/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://xkcd.com/1037/"><img src="http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/a4a856e1f7316d4a3d94958aace6a6375f20e113a3c8a24cefe07c29a64a0f01-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="XKCD Hole in the World (Umwelt)" width="150" height="150" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-12865" /></a>Last week, the webcomic XKCD ran a strip, <a href="http://xkcd.com/1037/">Umwelt</a>. Or perhaps it would be better to describe it as several comic strips.</p>
<p>As explained in the mouseover text, the title refers to the idea that because animals have different senses, each animal <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umwelt">effectively inhabits a different reality</a>. This can philosophically be extended to human perceptions.</p>
<p>Keeping that in mind, make sure you read it in a few different web browsers (both desktop and mobile!) for the full effect (JavaScript required). And try resizing the window.</p>
<p>As an art project, it&#8217;s the best use of browser-sniffing I&#8217;ve ever seen.</p>
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		<title>A Decade of Dead Links</title>
		<link>http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2012/03/dead-links/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 04:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I turned on the broken link checker plugin at lunchtime, and let it run through the site over the next few hours* before checking back this evening. Holy crap, there&#8217;s a lot of outdated links on this site! Over 300, &#8230; <a href="http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2012/03/dead-links/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/q404.jpg" alt="" title="Quoth the Server: 404" width="167" height="167" class="alignright size-full wp-image-12660" />I turned on the broken link checker plugin at lunchtime, and let it run through the site over the next few hours* before checking back this evening.</p>
<p>Holy crap, there&#8217;s a lot of outdated links on this site!  Over 300, in fact, linking to things like&#8230;</p>
<ul>
<li>News organizations that discard their archives, or hide them behind paywalls.</li>
<li>Businesses that have, well, gone out of business.</li>
<li>Blogs that have shut down or moved.</li>
<li>Personal sites that have been abandoned.</li>
<li>Sites that have reorganized without setting up redirect rules for their old link structure. (Even the <a href="http://starwars.com/">Star Wars</a> official site did this with the movie pages!)</li>
</ul>
<p>One of the dead links is, appropriately enough, to an article on top 10 web design mistakes.  (I guess <a href="http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html" title="Cool URIs don't change">they missed one</a>!) Another is actually on one of my <a href="http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2004/02/linkrot-part-deux/">articles on link rot</a> from way back when.</p>
<p>And then there are the 700+ links that are being redirected, some of which should probably be updated, but some of which are certainly gateway pages &#8212; and some of which are probably pointing to a new site that took over the name, but not the content.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s often stated that <strong>once something goes up on the Internet, it&#8217;s there forever</strong>. But that&#8217;s not <em>entirely</em> true.  What it <em>is</em>, is <strong>beyond your control</strong>. If someone else makes a copy, you can&#8217;t take it down (like the fable about releasing a bag of feathers from a mountain top, and then trying to collect all the feathers).  But any individual copy &#8212; even the original &#8212; exists at the whim of whoever owns or maintains that site.</p>
<p>One question remains: <strong>Do these dead links matter?</strong></p>
<p><strong>I think they do</strong>, for three reasons:</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Links are source trails</strong>. A valid link may support what you&#8217;re saying, indicating that you know what you&#8217;re talking about. (Think of all those [citation needed] notes on Wikipedia.)</li>
<li>Related to that, <strong>links provide context</strong>. Even today, with the masses chattering in short form on Facebook and Twitter, you&#8217;ll find people writing articles and responding to them with other articles.  As long as the links remain intact, these aren&#8217;t monologues &#8212; <strong>they&#8217;re a conversation</strong>.</li>
<li>When a whole site goes offline, <strong>you never know who&#8217;s going to pick it up</strong>. It could be someone with an opposite political agenda. It could be a spammer or malware peddler. A commenter from 5 years ago might lose their site and have it taken over by someone selling knockoffs of little blue pills &#8212; and now guess what you&#8217;re linking to?</li>
</ol>
<p><small>*Something about the plugin really taxes the VPS that DreamHost offers, which is why I don&#8217;t have it running all the time anymore, but it only seems to affect the blog it&#8217;s running in, and of course it doesn&#8217;t impact static pages.</small></p>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Use Third-Party Links in Email Lesson #12465: Comic-Con Registration</title>
		<link>http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2012/03/bad-email-links-comiccon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2012 20:07:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re trying to get a message out, or provide a service, analytics are great. They tell you what&#8217;s working and what&#8217;s not, so you can focus on what does work. Unfortunately, when it comes to email, a lot of &#8230; <a href="http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2012/03/bad-email-links-comiccon/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p>If you&#8217;re trying to get a message out, or provide a service, analytics are great.  They tell you what&#8217;s working and what&#8217;s not, so you can focus on what <em>does</em> work. Unfortunately, when it comes to email, a lot of organizations use a third-party click-tracking service, which registers which mailing the user clicked on, then redirects them to the real website.</p>
<p>Why do I say unfortunately?</p>
<p>Because it&#8217;s <a href="http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2006/01/email-from-one-domain/">what phishing does</a>: Sets up a link that <em>looks</em> like it goes one place, but <a href="http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2006/02/symantec-issues/">sends you somewhere else</a> instead.  In the case of a legitimate email with a click tracker, you end up at the real site eventually. In the case of a phishing message, you end up at a fake login page that wants to capture your username &#038; password, or a site with drive-by malware downloads. Using this technique in legit mail <a href="http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2011/04/phish-training/">trains people to ignore warning signs</a>, making them more vulnerable to the bad guys. And it makes it harder for security software to detect phishing automatically.</p>
<p>Now add another reason: <strong>You don&#8217;t control that click-tracking service</strong>, so it had better be reliable.</p>
<p><strong>That&#8217;s what happened with Comic-Con registration today.</strong></p>
<p>Getting tickets to San Diego Comic-Con used to be a breeze, but last year the system broke down repeatedly. It took them three tries, with multiple handlers, to open a registration system that didn&#8217;t melt in the first few minutes.</p>
<p>A few days ago, Comic-Con International sent out a message with the date and time registration would open, and a link to where the page would be when it went live.  They went to a lot of trouble to make sure their servers could handle the load, as did the company handling registration. They built a &#8220;waiting room&#8221; to make sure that people trying to buy tickets would get feedback, and get into a queue, when they arrived, but could still be filtered into the registration system slowly enough not to overwhelm it.</p>
<p><strong>The weak link: The click tracker.</strong></p>
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<p>That click tracking service was swamped, and thousands of people clicked on that link and got a blank browser window with the &#8220;loading&#8221; icon.</p>
<p>To make matters worse, Comic-Con had not only insisted that you should use the link from the email, but they had make a big point about how you shouldn&#8217;t refresh your browser, or try reloading the page in another browser or tab, or you&#8217;d get sent to the back of the line.  After last year&#8217;s fiasco, and the last few years of &#8220;Hoteloween&#8221; with the same sort of problems dogging hotel reservations, people were used to pages loading slowly, and CCI had trained them to let that blank page sit there, loading.</p>
<p>After 15-20 minutes, SDCC realized that the tracker was broken and sent out bulletins on Facebook and Twitter suggesting that people copy and paste the URL, or type it in manually. But by then, the damage had been done, and a lot of users who would have gotten in line at 8:00 got in line at 8:15 or 8:20 instead, and ended up so far back in line that the convention sold out before they made it to the front.</p>
<p>This all could have been avoided if the bulletin had linked directly to the target website instead of to that redirector.</p>
<p><strong>So, email campaigners:</strong> remember this cautionary tale and do your own click-tracking.</p>
<p>(For the record: I was able to get through and got the days I wanted. But only because I copied and pasted that URL instead of clicking on it, and started at position #3948 about 30 seconds after registration opened. To be honest, I probably benefited from the fact that so many people who would have been in competition with me those first 30 seconds ended up getting in line after me, but it was still a bad move on SDCC&#8217;s part.)</p>
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		<title>SOPA/PIPA and Stopping Piracy: The (Inevitable) Car Analogy</title>
		<link>http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2012/01/sopa-car/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine that a group of people who don’t drive much, don’t understand how cars work under the hood, and have never studied traffic engineering decide that they’re going to stop speeding by requiring that cars automatically slam on the emergency &#8230; <a href="http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2012/01/sopa-car/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Imagine that a group of people who don’t drive much, don’t understand how cars work under the hood, and have never studied traffic engineering decide that they’re going to stop speeding by requiring that cars automatically slam on the emergency brake and lock the controls the moment they exceed the speed limit — or the moment someone reports that the car has exceeded the speed limit.</p>
<p>Note that I didn’t say anything about turning the engine off, or putting it in neutral. Or only doing so in places where the speed limit is properly posted. Or worrying about whether there’s a car behind them that will have to slam on their own breaks to prevent a pile-up. Or actually checking that the car really is speeding before acting on the report.</p>
<p>Now imagine that criticisms and objections raised by actual drivers, the auto industry, traffic engineers, highway planners, and city planners are all dismissed as speeder propaganda.</p>
<p>That’s basically what’s going on with the “anti-piracy” bills being discussed in the House (SOPA) and Senate (PIPA/Protect IP).</p>
<p>(<a href="http://kelsonv.tumblr.com/post/16067687474/sopa-the-car-analogy">Posted yesterday on Tumblr</a>)</p>
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		<title>SOPA Boycott: GoDaddy Was an Easy Target</title>
		<link>http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2011/12/sopa-godaddy-easy-target/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a list of companies publicly supporting SOPA (the censor-the-internet-in-the-name-of-stopping-piracy bill) went public last week, the complaints started rolling in&#8230;but the biggest target, at least in the circles that I frequent, was GoDaddy. People organized a boycott, transferred their business &#8230; <a href="http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2011/12/sopa-godaddy-easy-target/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After a list of <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5870241/presented-without-comment-every-single-company-supporting-sopa-the-awful-internet-censorship-law">companies publicly supporting SOPA</a> (the <a href="http://americancensorship.org/">censor-the-internet-in-the-name-of-stopping-piracy bill</a>) went public last week, the complaints started rolling in&#8230;but the biggest target, at least in the circles that I frequent, was GoDaddy. People organized a boycott, transferred their business elsewhere, and GoDaddy eventually <a href="http://mashable.com/2011/12/30/go-daddy-now-officially-opposes-sopa/">reversed course</a>, <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2011/12/29/not-even-a-shift-to-full-sopa-opposition-can-stop-go-daddy-from-hemorrhaging-customers/">but it was too late</a> to stop a massive outflow of customers.</p>
<p>But why was GoDaddy such a target? And for that matter, why did so many people follow through, rather than just rant about it on the internet?</p>
<p>I think there are several reasons.</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>The tech industry is <a href="http://savehosting.org/">mostly opposed</a></strong> to the bill on technical reasons. Pick a random hosting provider and chances are they&#8217;re officially against it. That made GoDaddy stand out in a way that a random movie studio doesn&#8217;t.</li>
<li><strong>They provide a service, not content, and there are many competitors</strong> who provide the same kind of service. (And it seems like they all came out with discount codes to encourage people to switch to <em>their</em> company.) With content, you can choose to read a book from another publisher, or watch a movie from another studio, but if you want to watch a <em>particular</em> movie, you can&#8217;t get it somewhere else. There are lots of comics publishers out there, but if you want to read Spider-Man, you can only get it from Marvel.</li>
<li><strong>Public opinion of GoDaddy was already low</strong>. For some it was their sexist ad campaigns. For some it was the CEO bragging about shooting elephants. For some it was their incessant email marketing, or focus on upselling unneeded services to people who didn&#8217;t understand what they were, or the fact that their website is such a %^$^@#%&#038; pain to use. They&#8217;re cheap, and they&#8217;re well-known, which means a lot of people used them&#8230;but they weren&#8217;t that well-<em>liked</em>. Supporting SOPA ended up being the last straw.</li>
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<p>As a result, you had a company that was tolerated at best painting a target on themselves, and a relatively easy way for people to vote with their wallets and not actually give anything up other than the time and money needed to make the transfer.</p>
<p>Full disclosure: I used to have about 10 domain names registered through GoDaddy, plus a few at DreamHost and one at Network Solutions. (Yes, Network Solutions.)  GoDaddy was annoying, but cheap, and it was easier to renew than move.  This week I consolidated them all at <a href="http://www.dreamhost.com/r.cgi?1044219">DreamHost</a>, where I&#8217;ve had my websites hosted for the past year. DreamHost is offering a <a href="http://blog.dreamhost.com/2011/12/29/doin-the-shuffle/">discount code</a> for new customers who want to switch: SOPAROPA. I don&#8217;t get anything for telling you that, but if you sign up and list me (kelson &#8211; at &#8211; pobox &#8211; dot &#8211; com) as the person who referred you to DreamHost, I&#8217;ll get credits that I can apply to my hosting bill.</p>
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		<title>Do you want the Internet to be Censored?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you live in the US and you use the Internet, you need to know about this. There are two proposed laws, SOPA and Protect IP, that would set up a system to block access to websites deemed to be &#8230; <a href="http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2011/12/sopa/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you live in the US and you use the Internet, you need to know about this. There are two proposed laws, SOPA and Protect IP, that would set up a system to block access to websites deemed to be &#8220;infringing,&#8221; in the name of stopping piracy. Of course, &#8220;infringing&#8221; could refer to the actions of <em>one user</em> on a large site, like, say, Facebook or Wikipedia. Imagine if someone at Warner Bros. filed a complaint about someone&#8217;s fan art on DeviantArt, and the government blocked access to the <em>entire site</em>.  Sort of like shutting down an entire mall because one shopper was accused of wearing a counterfeit Rolex.</p>
<p>Of course, once a system like this is in place, we all know it&#8217;ll <em>never be abused</em>, right?</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s not even getting into the technical implications of the bills, which would put an extra burden on tech startups and actually undermine efforts by the US government itself to make the internet more secure.</p>
<p>████, the ████ ████ █████ ██████ the ████████ ██████ the US in the ████ of ████████ ██████ (█████ it ██████&#8217;t), isn&#8217;t ████ yet. In ████, it&#8217;s █████ to a ████ ████ ████.</p>
<p><a href='http://americancensorship.org/posts/4733/uncensor' style='border: none; display: block; margin: 10px;'><img src='http://americancensorship.org/images/ac2-uncensorthis.png' alt='Uncensor This' width='349' height='53' /></a></p>
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		<title>Lunar Eclipse and Sunrise (With Photos)</title>
		<link>http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2011/12/eclipse-and-sunrise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:06:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just yesterday, I had no idea there was going to be a lunar eclipse this morning. Then I skimmed an article somewhere and got the impression it was only going to be visible on the east coast, And then I &#8230; <a href="http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2011/12/eclipse-and-sunrise/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kelsonv/6487861983/in/photostream/"><img src="http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Eclipse-Panels.jpg" alt="" title="Lunar Eclipse" width="630" height="210" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-12421" /></a></p>
<p>Just yesterday, I had no idea there was going to be a lunar eclipse this morning.  Then I skimmed an article somewhere and got the impression it was only going to be visible on the east coast, And then I read about it <a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/12/09/watch-the-lunar-eclipse-saturday/">on Bad Astronomy</a> and realized I had it backward.  Not only would I be able to see part of the eclipse, but I&#8217;d be able to see the moon in totality!  All I had to do was get up early in the morning and find a place with a clear view of the western horizon. I considered driving down to the beach at 5am, but thought I&#8217;d start out by seeing how visible it was from home.  As it turns out, I should have gone to the beach to start with, but I had some good viewing before I left.</p>
<p>So I set my alarm, woke up at 5am (plus the snooze button), and went out to see what I could see.   To my surprise, I actually had a decent view of the partially-eclipsed moon from across the street. It was about half-covered at this point (as shown in the first photo above). So I stayed out there for a few minutes deciding what I wanted to do, went back in to have some coffee and breakfast, then went back out shortly before 6 to watch as the umbra covered the disc the rest of the way. I found it interesting that it didn&#8217;t look particularly reddish this time, just brown.</p>
<p>Awesome viewing, though it was clear the moon would dip below the roofs of the houses soon. I needed a less obstructed view.</p>
<p>As soon as the moon went into totality, I went back inside, woke up Katie just enough to let her know I was going, tossed the rest of my coffee in a travel mug and hightailed it down to the beach.  <span id="more-12417"></span></p>
<p>The eastern sky was already light when the total phase of the eclipse began. As I drove, I crested a south-facing hill and saw the southeastern horizon lit up deep red, with silhouettes of Saddleback and the San Gorgonio mountains in the distance. (Keep reading &#8211; I&#8217;ll come back to this.)  I came <em>so</em> close to stopping, but figured eclipses are only visible from here every few years. Sunrises happen every day.  So I kept driving.</p>
<p>I went to an area of Redondo Beach or Torrance (I&#8217;m still not sure exactly where the city boundaries are) where a street runs along the top of a cliff, with occasional stairs leading down to the beach maybe 30 feet below. There&#8217;s parking along the street, and benches where you can watch the waves or the sunset&#8230;or this morning, where you could watch the eclipse.  There were maybe a dozen or so people spread out along the cliff, several of them with tripods. Clearly I wasn&#8217;t the only eclipse hunter who had thought of this spot.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, I got there too late. By the time I parked the car, the sky was light enough and the moon was behind enough haze that it was virtually invisible. It would have been a great full moonset under ordinary circumstances, but the refracted earthlight just wasn&#8217;t enough to light it up against the dawn sky.</p>
<p>Everyone still there was packing up.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kelsonv/6487863699/" title="Santa Monica Bay at Dawn by Kelson, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7160/6487863699_6313d6dc7e_z.jpg" width="640" height="416" alt="Santa Monica Bay at Dawn"/></a></p>
<p>I stayed for a few minutes, then decided I might as well catch the sunrise while I was out.  The closest place I could think of that had a clear view of the east was the hill I&#8217;d crested earlier, which had a good view&#8230;except for the the skeletal towers of a cluster of power transmission lines.  I wasn&#8217;t the only one out to watch the sunrise, either.  Aside from the people walking their dogs in the park nearby, there were two other guys standing around by their cars (carefully not parked near each other), looking at the eastern horizon.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kelsonv/6487864365/" title="Dawn Mountain Silhouettes 2 by Kelson, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7022/6487864365_18675a915f_z.jpg" width="640" height="421" alt="Dawn Mountain Silhouettes 2"/></a></p>
<p>I&#8217;ve always found it interesting that you can see distant mountains silhouetted at dawn and dusk that you can&#8217;t see during the day.  The San Gabriels at left are often visible from the South Bay (just as they are from Orange County), but it&#8217;s rare to be able to see Saddleback from out here.  And the mountains in between? Very rare. I think they&#8217;re the San Gorgonio range.</p>
<p>If you look carefully in the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kelsonv/6487864365/lightbox/">higher-res version</a>, you can see that there&#8217;s another mountain sticking up <em>behind</em> the Santa Ana Mountains, near the north/left end of the range. I&#8217;m not 100% certain, but I think it&#8217;s San Jacinto!</p>
<p>Anyway, I walked a little ways down the hill to where the towers didn&#8217;t block the spot where the sky looked brightest, and waited.  It wasn&#8217;t very long &#8212; I&#8217;d cut things pretty closely &#8212; before a bright spot appeared just a little above the horizon. Oddly, it looked like it appeared <em>between</em> the horizon and the tops of the mountains south of Saddleback, which I chalked up to the same sort of refraction that causes the sun to look higher than it actually is.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Sunrise-Stack.jpg" alt="" title="Sunrise Stack" width="640" height="437" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-12420" /></p>
<p>After the sun cleared the mountains, I stared to head back to my car, when one of the guys asked me, &#8220;You&#8217;re here for the eclipse, right?&#8221; It turned out that he&#8217;d misunderstood an article describing where and when to look, and so he went out to a spot with a view of the <em>eastern</em> horizon a little after 6:00. The moon had been behind him (and a hill) the whole time.  I showed him some of the photos I&#8217;d taken earlier, so he at least got to see them second hand, and then we both drove off.</p>
<p>As I drove home, I noticed other people out just looking at the view. At one point I caught a glimpse of Downtown Los Angeles, with several skyscrapers reflecting the sun like columns of light.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not usually up that early in the morning these days, especially not on a weekend. I&#8217;m more of a night owl. But sometimes I can definitely see the appeal.</p>
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		<title>More Generic Blog Spam</title>
		<link>http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2011/12/more-generic-blog-spam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 07:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s another comment spammer whose software plugged in every phrase on its generic comment list instead of picking one at random. Notice how vague these tend to be, so that they could easily apply to almost any post on almost &#8230; <a href="http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2011/12/more-generic-blog-spam/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here’s another comment spammer whose software plugged in <strong>every</strong> phrase on its generic comment list instead of picking one at random.  Notice how vague these tend to be, so that they could easily apply to almost any post on almost any site.</p>
<p>If you see any of these comments show up on your blog, chances are good that it’s a spammer trying to get a backlink to their shady site, not someone who actually wants to contribute to the conversation.</p>
<p>(<a href="http://lolspam.net/post/13881397136/generic">Cross-posted from LOL Spam</a>)</p>
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