From the README: Lavaps is an interactive process-tracking program like ``top'', but with a much different attitude. Rather than presenting lots of specific info in digital form, it tries to present certain important information in a graphical analog form. The idea is that you can run it in the background and get a rough idea of what's happening to your system without devoting much concentration to the task. Lavaps was inspired by Mark Weiser's idea of calm computing in this paper: ``The Coming Age of Calm Technology'' by Mark Weiser and John Seely Brown. A revised version of Weiser & Brown. ``Designing Calm Technology'', PowerGrid Journal, v 1.01, http://powergrid.electriciti.com/1.01 (July 1996). October, 1996. http://www.ubiq.com/hypertext/weiser/acmfuture2endnote.htm. (This program dedicated to the memory of M.W.--I hope you would have thought it a good hack.) Author: John Heidemann WWW: http://www.isi.edu/~johnh/SOFTWARE/LAVAPS/