Websites as graphs
Saw this over at Poppy Cedes. Some guy named Sala made an HTML Graph Applet. He’s also doing an art project called One Thousand Paintings and a self-proclaimed web’s first collective music video.
[edit - forgot this important part] The applet makes a graphical representation of a website, following all the little links and depicting different content with a representative color and connecting the content that is related. So this is what my website (http://whall.org) looks like as of now:
What do the colors mean?
blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
green: for the DIV tag
violet: for images (the IMG tag)
yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
black: the HTML tag, the root node
gray: all other tags
Watching the animation of the thing build is also nice. Click on my graph above to watch it build out. The one for Blogography has some pretty clusters of yellow flowers. Very fun to watch.
About the only thing that would make this even cooler is making each of the dots with tag so when you hovered over a specific dot, it would tell you what object it’s looking at, and possibly what it is. For example, hovering over something might pop up a small caption that said Image: [url] so that it had a clickable url for the image. Or maybe even a thumbnail.
I’m noticing I pretty much don’t use tables (represented by red) except for the one cluster down in the lower left. So I wonder what the green dot is leading to the cluster, and the red dot starting the cluster. It would be cool if hovering over the dot told me what it was, or what blog entry, etc.
Battlestar?
My scifi.com’s newsletter this week had this little snippet:
Huh? I thought the season finale of BSG said “Battlestar Galactica returns in 2008″. But if they’re coming back in November…. I’m confused.
I guess I’m going to have to actually go and read some BSG forums and blogs and get updated. Unless someone wants to update me here 
Movies I saw
Both of the movies I saw this week were awesome.
Evan Almighty – Awesome movie. I had decently high expectations for it already, and it not only met them but surpassed them. Great family flick, but also just funny to watch.
Transformers. Need I say more? Jaden and I absolutely LOVED this movie, although we needed earplugs for his sensitive ears. Tons of action, decent plot (don’t argue with me here, k?), great special effects and a childlike love for robots!
You gotta get used to the capriciousness of the BSG show producers. They do this to us all the time. For example, remember season 1.5? I mean, what’s up with that? Then, there was this last season, season three…. Started in November, and no one, I mean NO ONE knew it was going to end when it did. We were all so PISSED. You know how I was. I even threatened to stop watching it, which is like me saying I will never eat chocolate again.
Yes, they did say on the last episode that the next season would start in 2008. However, BSG tends to start their season in November, so I am not surprised. I don’t know what’s going on over there, because each season seems to have it’s own timetable, so something’s going on.
The good news is that they typically release the previous season on DVD one month before the new season begins, which means we should be able to pick up season 3 in October, like last year (for season 2).
If you want to read forums on what we think about BSG, then you need to get involved with my Sci-Fi group.
This isn’t a season. It’s a SciFi movie that’s a flashback to the Pegasus, I believe. I don’t even know if Ron Moore is involved.
You liked Evan Almighty? I’ve yet to hear a single good thing about it. Transformers, though, was awesome.
Michelle, I’m wondering if I missed some of season 2 – I own 1, 1.5 and 2 but lent out 2 and there were some times in season 3 where it flashed back to something and I wasn’t sure what they were talking about. wrt capriciousness – I typically give the movie maker / show producer wide latitude in their creative pursuits, even with unplanned releases and you-never-know-whats-going-to-happen schedules. I think it adds to it’s uniqueness. For example, I loved the last episode of The Sopranos but a lot of people were pissed. And how can I get involved with a Sci-Fi group that’s 4 hours away? You need to come back to Austin, chelle.
Avitable, See, that’s my problem. I just watch stuff. I don’t typically know who’s behind things – I have no idea who Ron Moore is. I have friends who know directors, producers, etc, of various movies and I guess it helps them find other things they think they’ll like to watch, but I have a pretty forgiving palette for watching stuff. However, I don’t watch a LOT – I simply am able to watch a lot. So I’m discriminating to a point in what I’ll spend my time watching, but it’s little to do with the more intellectual reasons others use. Perhaps that’s why I liked Evan Almighty so much. I *never* listen to, read, or look up reviews of things. I’ve yet to find anyone anywhere who shares a similar taste of everything I like, so reviews are worthless. At best, they might save me some time but typically it’s going to mold my movie watching into someone else’s frame (no pun intended). So *now* you’ve heard a single good thing about Evan Almighty.
Ronald Moore is the producer who created this new version of BSG. I am not sure if SciFi is making the Razor movie without him, which means that it will likely suck, or with him, which means it could still be good even though it’s not adding anything to the forward momentum of the show’s storyline.
I have friends who have similar tastes, and I look at sites like RottenTomatoes.com and MetaCritic.com, which collates reviews into an easily digestible format, and that way I can get a general impression of a movie by reading 150 reviews at once. Typically, I pay attention to writers and directors because they are the ones that make a movie good or bad, too.
I lied. I do read some reviews. Mr Cranky.
Oh, that’s a funny site!
As I mentioned over at my blog, your graph is beautiful.
That is all.
Avitable, yes, it’s hard not to be funny when your sole purpose is to belittle EVERY SINGLE MOVIE and just blow it out of the water. At this site, not even It’s a Wonderful Life is safe. “Basically, because Uncle Billy is a bone-headed moron, the people of the town have to hand George their life savings.”
Poppy, Why thanks so much. I still think yours is better.
I just got this info off some link somewhere:
In anticipation of the premiere of SCI FI’s stunning two-hour event, Battlestar Galactica: Razor, the Channel will whet viewers’ appetites with an eight-week series of exclusive 2-3 minute mini-sodes. Premiering in October on SCI FI during primetime, these promotional shorts will lead into the November 24 premiere of Razor, a special extended episode that will provide a backdrop to events that will take place in the rest of season four of Galactica. Written by Michael Taylor, and directed by Wayne Rose and Felix Alcala, these shorts will provide a sneak peek into the original Cylon War, when a young pilot named William Adama (Nico Cortez) discovers a dangerous Cylon weapon that will come back to haunt him and his crew 40 years later. Filmed as part of the extended episode, the mini-sodes will be included in the unrated Universal Home Video release of Razor. They will also be available on SCIFI.COM after their on-air debuts. Battlestar Galactica: Razor will tell the story of Lee Adama’s (Jamie Bamber) first mission as commander of the Battlestar Pegasus and will reveal the story of how Admiral Cain (Michelle Forbes) served her ship during the original Cylon attack on the Colonies.
AHHHHHHH! DON’T RUIN MY BSG!!!!!!
AVERT YOUR GAZE, POPPY, AVERT AVERT!
Meh… I always thought my HTML chart looked a little scattered and boring. Though the tool is fascinating… it almost makes me want to construct an HTML document which was tailored to produce a graph that would look a lot cooler than my blog!
Poppy, I hope you averted quickly. I also didn’t know I had put out anything not already widely known, but now that I re-read it, I can see that it does contain minor spoilerage. I’m one to preface spoilers with the term, so “my bad”, to use the vernacular. Or is it “my frakkin bad”?
Dave2, you’re right! It would also be cool if there was a gallery of archived html-ified graphs to see what sites had what properties.