Corduroy is a Python library for using CouchDB with Tornado.
i have no idea why i made this…
coordinate transforms will always be a trial and error affair i'm afraid
13 months and 11k lines of code later, i’ve finished up the choose your own adventure project. all told i ended up cataloging a dozen books from the early-to-mid 80s, looking for patterns in their construction and in the paths made by different readers through them.
these short, simple books had a surprisingly complicated structure with their interlocking pages & choices. as a kid the idea of writing one and keeping all those pages straight boggled my mind. what was lost on me at the time was that even a list of hundreds of page numbers can be comprehensible if it’s redrawn as a diagram. these days i feel like i approach everything that way.
so here is my look back at an obsession from my past, using graphical obsessions of the present to guide the way.
So glad Tom & Nancy taught me this '3 level' lesson at an impressionable age
the gasoline alley strip is especially gorgeous
tom bissell taking stock of literary stunt-pilotry
the chiptune singularity cometh…
making the USGS look shoddy in comparison
Tom Coryat was a man who knew how to title a book
Jasmin Blanchette making some good points (via QT of all things)
the endpapers of black hole but with faces you recognize
would love to hear their version of the assault on precinct 13 theme...
maybe they'll take down the world's worst piece of signage now
the sound of ray davies applying for a job at the radiophonic workshop
a gift shop that doubles as a history of graphic design
many personal favorites on this list
there's something almost charming about the early days of computer viruses
they knew how to make music television back in the day
Ocular micro-tremors and retinal blur explain it all