On Dec. 12, at 2:41 a.m., Ph.D. student Ian Li of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa. was feeling miserable and sleepy. The computer science student was in the midst of a three-paper marathon and not having fun, writes Network World’s Jon Brodkin.
Almost 12 hours later, Li was sleepy and relieved. He was done writing papers for the day. But his emotions – represented by a few words and bands of color – were up on the World Wide Web in perpetuity for his friends to see.
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