Fa?ade is designed, programmed and written from scratch by Andrew and Michael. It required years of hard work developing an array of new design and AI techniques and technology, including building upon some past research at Carnegie Mellon University. We very much want to share what we learned during the process, to help seed a new genre of interactive entertainment.

Fa?ade is an art/research project, that we're hoping will also serve as an example prototype for an interactive drama commercial product. We could charge money for it, but we'd rather make it easier to get Fa?ade to as many people as possible. We figure that if enough people play it and like the experience, we'll be in a position to make an even bigger and better interactive drama in the future, as an actual product.

Fa?ade was created over a period of 5 years primarily by two collaborators, Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern. We are each designer-programmers focused on researching and developing artificially intelligent art and entertainment. The production was an almost entirely self-funded, industry-academia collaboration: Andrew has 10+ years of game industry experience as a designer and AI engineer, and Michael creates AI-based art and is an Assistant Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Can you see the problem? It is in a category all by itself, and that makes it hard to describe to people enough to make them want to read it. So figure out the way that makes the most sense and tell people to get a copy today!

It's now 167MB, instead of the original 800MB! Thanks to speex.org for the better audio compression. (The Mac version is 131MB because Macs are guaranteed to come with Java, so we didn't need to include it in the installer.) The 1.6GHz CPU restriction is now turned off - although Fa?ade will still run poorly, or not at all, on computers slower than a 1.6GHz Pentium 4. Fa?ade version 1.1 for Windows was released February 16, 2006. Version 1.0 for Windows was released July 5, 2005.

Over time, parts or all of the Fa?ade technology will become available for others to use for their own art, research or industry projects. We have formed a studio called Procedural Arts to own and distribute Fa?ade and its technology. See our technology page.

Well, I was bored with my other sites and annoyed I couldn't find any Harry Potter fan sites. (I had to find some of the links through InsideTheWeb, an old message board service.) And I love Harry Potter and J. K. Rowling's writing capability, so I just decided to make one . . .

Yes I designed and made the layout myself (excluding all Neopets graphics). Lostaquariam made the banner and some of the link buttons for me. I got all the content for the site through a lot of research and help from members of the PPT (pinkpt.com) forums.

Lights in the Sky & Little Green Men: A Rational Christian Look at UFOs and Extraterrestrials, by Hugh Ross, Kenneth Samples, and Mark Clark (NavPress) Body Snatchers in the Desert: The Horrible Truth at the Heart of the Roswell Story, by Nick Redfern (Paraview-Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, 2005) Back to Top Here's Mike: The short answer is that I think they're evil and I only really cares to read credentialed academics who have worked in the field.

Glass fa?ade testing is a process wherein the fa?ade is tested for its designed performance for Structural stability & leakage's against air & water infiltration. These tests are a must & should be performed on every project as no two projects are similar & this helps the Project Manager to act proactively, thus save Valuable material in the form of modification, Valuable time & Valuable Money.

The Stooges made a total of 190 "short subject" episodes with Columbia - 97 with Curly, 77 with Shemp, and 16 with Joe. In addition to these, there were feature-length films (at least 20), and cartoons (156 as "The New Three Stooges"). They had short parts in other movies and TV shows, ranging from a five-second non-speaking part in "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World", to semi regular appearances on the Ed Wynn show and the Frank Sinatra show.

Please see the appendix for a summary of the differences between the 2005 and 1999 CBAs. The appendix includes links to questions with additional information. In addition, the final version of this FAQ for the 1999 CBA may be found at http://members.cox.net/lmcoon/salarycap99.htm.

Jack did not make "Shelter". Jack and Ben Harper make brief long-boarding appearances from when they were playing the Byron Bay Blues Festival in Australia in March 2001. The 'Shelter' Crew was near the Byron Bay filming the movie, and since Jack and Ben were close by, they stopped by one day and caught some waves. Jack's manager Emmett Malloy, along with Taylor Steele, made the surf film "Shelter" in 2001. For more info go to http://www.shelter2001.com

The animations on the details pages and on the browse pages are animated GIF files. In most cases, still shots from each minute of the program were grabbed and saved as JPG files (these are the thumbnails which you can reach by clicking on the "View thumbnails" links). Then a tool called ImageMagick was used to create the animated GIF files from the JPGs.

Initially, I made the website to share my pictures with my relatives and friends. Then I started getting emails from people interested in going on Semester@Sea. To this day, most of the traffic on my site is for Semester@Sea. Not too long ago, I finally decided to update the look of the site - you know, to bring it into the 21st century. Here are links to old incarnations: v2.0