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There are many variables that affect a site's performance. The tools listed below can help you discover those variables and improve your site. We recommend that you experiment with these tools. Multiple simple changes can improve the experience for your users around the world by several seconds.

We are a Boston collection of fans, players, and authors of Interactive Fiction - which is to say, old-style text adventures. You know. Like Zork. "Twisty little maze of passages, all alike." "Likely to be eaten by a grue." Those games. Not surprisingly, we play and discuss all things interactive fiction, focusing on recent topics or developments in the community. We also demonstrate our own games or experiments in the area. Some past examples from our agenda include: Playing and critiquing various games submitted to the Interactive Fiction Competition at JayIsGames. Demonstrating a program that can create interactive excerpts from an IF game. Learning how an IF game is being used by a student to replicate the logic (or lack thereof) in dreams.

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Our goal is to "democratize" visualization and to enable a new social kind of data analysis. Jump right to our visualizations now, take a tour, or read on for a leisurely explanation of the project.

Collecting examples of creative, innovative, and unexpected use of emerging web technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3