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The Skies Are Not Cloudy All Day

December 4, 2018 –

To me, as a kid, McDonald’s was a monolith: immutable and, barring an act of God, indestructible. After St. Peter let you pass through the Pearly Gates, he’d bop down to the local Micky Dee’s, mow through the super-sized #7 meal, and grab a soft-serve vanilla cone for the road.

Proximatic Is For Sale

October 30, 2018 –

Nine years ago, I published a little blurb about a magical place known as the McFarthest Spot, and thereafter, a slow drip of personal research on street grids, urban growth, and more.

Crayon The Grids

October 14, 2014 –

“Here!” exclaimed Jebediah as he nosed his schooner onto a fan of fertile loam. Come sundown, a makeshift corral encircled his livestock, and by Sabbath eve, the crown of a crude barn rose above the neighboring hummock.

Tweet-Bokeh-O-Rama

May 9, 2013 –

Transmissions from a new project on the data frontier:

Literally Billions

April 8, 2013 –

Last year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, the world’s population topped seven billion, and now stands at approximately 7,077,490,000 as of noon Eastern, April 8, 2013.

Petri Dish

January 30, 2013 –

Now, for your amusement, a pure HTML5+Javascript interpretation of computer science classic The Game of Life:

Above Sea Level

November 14, 2012 –

Hurricane Sandy stripped the political haze from one of climate change’s core truths: when the oceans rise, they’ll submerge land, inundate homes, and destroy lives.

How high will the seas swell? And how fast? No one knows for certain.

Dance, Factors, Dance

October 29, 2012 –

Upon first sight of Brent Yorgey’s brilliant Factorization Diagrams, I knew that I should take his lovely little dots and make them dance.

Our first tango would be inspired by the digital clock, with a separate diagram for each of hours, minutes, and seconds.