PacketGarden logs all of the activities one might do on a networked computer—Web surfing, file transfers, email, IM, games and P2P—and uses the accumulation to “grow” a personal 3D garden. The open-source tool monitors packets on designated ports, each with a different virtual plant to represent it. Uploads and downloads change the topology of the landscape. To quote the creator, “You can think of packet gardens as pages from a network diary.”
Sweat Pants and Stilettos
Bad Mommy has always had trouble dressing appropriately, even before she was a mommy. There was the semester (or year, or two) of pajamas to class. There was the time her (then future) mother-in-law kindly offered to buy her shoes because she had traveled five hours to visit Kevin and neglected to bring any footwear.
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