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Archive for 2004

Patterns of Flow and Responsive UI Design

Was lucky enough today to attend a talk by Ben Bederson, who presented his work on Interfaces for Staying in the Flow, and examples of software that he has developed …

Belted with the bible

It feels like a veil of darkness is descending... It's time for writers, poets, and philosophers to pick up their pens, and actors and activists to bring it to the streets. Nobody in the western…

Nuclear Weapons are Morally Indefensible

INTERJECTION: "Mr Lange Sir, if I may address you as 'mate', perhaps. You talk about the quality of rationality. Now I've heard many reasons advanced for keeping American sailors out of ports…

Snow storm on canvass

----- Original Message ----- From: "thesaurus" To: "maetl_" Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 7:55 PM Subject: Snow storm on canvass Saaaaap to you Relentlessly turbulent one, Hell bent…

Ethical Implosion

Michael Moore: "Bush lied to the American people" Bill O'Reilly: "It's not a lie if you believe it to be true" The O'Reilly Factor: FOXNews, July 27, 2004 Wow - the greatest irony in…

Incorporeal Transformations

Long overdue, perhaps more difficult than finding time, was the problem of actually having something to write inside this architecture. But finally, the format of the experiment…

Whos' America?

Since last week, the New Zealand Immigration Service website has been getting over 10,000 hits per day, and a stream of enquiries from Americans wanting to escape the BushCo…

How many Bush administration officials does it take to change a light bulb?

Via William Gibson Blog and HYPERSITION: None. There?s nothing wrong with that light bulb. There is no need to change anything. We made the right decision and nothing has happened to change…

Recollections and New Directions

Things have been pretty hectic lately and unfortunately I've had to push back a number of updates to this site, as random work and business requirements threaten to overwhelm... There's still no archive…

Style Object Stew

Think you understand the basics of HTML and the Document Object Model? Start with a basic CSS selector: #items { width:180px; height:220px; } Now the HTML that this CSS decorates: …

Extracting Tabular Data from HTML Tables

Despite having been a significant catalyst for the success of the world-wide-web, use of the humble 'ol <table> has been drived to the backroads with current conventions…

Alphabets

From time to time we take our pen in hand And scribble symbols on a blank white sheet. Their meaning is at everyone's command; It is a game whose rules…

Shuffle

It's the busiest time of year, and recent commitments have left little time for writing. I'm working on some articles about the history of information design and fascist themes and repurposing…

Back to the Ark?

It's been over a week - and still no Wellington election results... The local body elections are obviously not taken seriously by the majority of the population - witness a voter turnout…

Perils and Patterns in the Search for Perfection

"Freedom of the will" - that is the expression for the complex state of delight of the person exercising volition, who commands and at the same time identifies himself with the executor…

Matapihi

Matapihi is a free collaborative service stretching across New Zealand's collective cultural archive (see also: PictureAustralia and Images Canada). The search tool provides access…

Incunabula: Design Notes

This site is written in HTML and rendered in CSS + Javascript. The layout is heavily inspired by the geometric design experiments at the Bauhaus in the mid 1920s, but with a…