Tab Sweep — The World · You know, each and every one of these is worth a carefully-considered little essay; but I just don’t have the cycles, and publishing them is better than not ...
[6 comments]
[6 comments]
Hamburger Art · I like art galleries and museums, in particular modern art, something that strains the brain a bit. Berlin is a pretty big deal in the modern-art world so when Lauren asked what I wanted to do one day, we went to the Hamburger Bahnhof, at one time the station where you got the train to Hamburg, now an Art museum, and old railway stations make good ones ...
[2 comments]
[2 comments]
Old Map of the Future · I vaguely remember running across it a couple of times a dozen years ago or more, described as an “experimental Web site”. From time to time, when bored, I’d visit jodi.org and often my browser would end up toasted by flailing JavaScript [Warning: it can still happen]. I saw some effects there for the first time that are now in every AJAXian’s toolbox ...
[3 comments]
[3 comments]
Overpass Prophet Project · A few years ago when I was commuting back and forth on the Expressway in Toronto every day, there was this fairly low overpass that I (and a hundred thousand or so others) drove under every day. I thought the experience would be improved if there were an old man standing on it wearing white robes in the style of a biblical prophet, slowly waving a large black flag ...
