41% sign-up rate

41% of our visitors now register....that's our tops, but we have been getting to .40 sporadically especially 2 days ago, in the last couple of days have been in the high 30's.

Highest Traffic

pretty good traffic for a niche - reached about # 44,000. Of course we want to reach 1,2, or 3 - Yahoo, Google, and MSN, not nessarily in that order.

What can you do with graphs - lots of great things - for example, look at Tufte's the Visual Display of Quantitative Information, leading people to see that statistics could be elegant...or


Here - George Lucas does the tractor beam on the Death Star as a graph...what was that language???It's not hieroglyphic,hieratic, demotic, akkadian, sumerian, or sanskrit...what is it?

Million Member March or Terminator 3

Last November, following Governor Schwarzenegger's tromp through the hinterlands of Silicon Valley raising funds, I joked here about the million member March, or blog-in in Sacramento. I still think that's a good idea, but we need at least 2 million members. or about 5% of the state's population to make it worthwhile. For now, amuse yourself with Terminator 3 - the pinball game, the only pinball machine (at least for now) featuring an RPG-toting state governor. Better yet, get a bottle of brainspeed, take some while you play and you get locked for multi-ball.

SHOOT here...and...HERE....great shot.....AHRPEEGEE...
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For awhile I was thinking of putting one in the front hallway to amuse guests, admission price: gotta get a free game