Sunday, May 15, 2005

My house. s'out of the ordinary.

Just a quick update today. Flatpak makes these fun customizable prefab houses. I guess it's kind of the old Dell business model applied to architecture. Which is pretty neat, if not actually practical per se.

One can do some pretty fancy things with maps. This
very impressive-looking map will zoom in on parts of the country as you type in the digits of a zip code. Doubtless there are more worthwhile uses for it than holding down shift and giddily applauding as one makes all the parts of the 50000 region of the country light up in order, but I'm sure as hell not gonna find out what they are.
Dorothy Gambrell, in addition to her
other contributions to humanity has done some pretty great things with graphical representations of information, including the Bohemian Index map of NYC.