ALTER STATS

The Condition of the Web Observer


Self-Modifying Web Self-Visualization


An Experiment to Journal the Effect of the Observer on the Image Observed.


Consider the following information which is unique to your visit to this page:

SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache/1.2.4
GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1
DOCUMENT_ROOT /export/site.root/www.adaweb.com
SCRIPT_URI http://www.adaweb.com/cgi-bin/jfsjr/obsr
REMOTE_ADDR 204.78.1.215
SCRIPT_URL /cgi-bin/jfsjr/obsr
SERVER_PROTOCOL HTTP/1.0
REQUEST_METHOD GET
REMOTE_HOST jfsjr.port.net
HTTP_REFERER http://www.numeral.com/projects.html
QUERY_STRING
HTTP_USER_AGENT Mozilla/3.0 (Macintosh; I; PPC)
PATH /usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/ucb:/home/fid
TZ US/Eastern
HTTP_CONNECTION Keep-Alive
HTTP_ACCEPT image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, */*
REMOTE_PORT 1119
SCRIPT_NAME /cgi-bin/jfsjr/obsr
SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/local/etc/httpd/cgi-bin/jfsjr/obsr
SERVER_NAME www.adaweb.com
REQUEST_URI /cgi-bin/jfsjr/obsr
SERVER_PORT 80
HTTP_HOST www.adaweb.com
SERVER_ADMIN webmaster@dci-studio.com


You are identified by the REMOTE_HOST variable.
Your machine is identified by the HTTP_USER_AGENT variable.


ALTER STATS creates images based on your interaction.
When you request the ALTER STATS pages, a unique image is computed and returned to your browser.
By requesting the page, computing a new image and altering the statistical database, you modify the image that future observers will see.

To observe and at the same time effect the computing of the image you will see and the image others will eventually see:



OBSERVE


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