delegates infographic

If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many words is an interactive infographic worth?

frontpage of nytimes at 2008-4-22 20:10 ET

(and it would be so much cooler if it didn’t use Flash)

AppEngine - Web Hypercard, finally

Especially as a Django fan, I’m excited about this, even if it is Google. And I certainly hope something as cool as Hypercard on the web-as-platform might not be far behind.
AppEngine - Web Hypercard, finally (Skrentablog)
Google’s AppEngine is being compared to Amazon’s EC2/S3. But Google deserves credit here for coming up with a pretty differently-positioned [...]

Depopulation of eastern Germany

SOMETHING odd is happening to the cities of eastern Germany. Plattenbauten, the soulless prefabricated apartment blocks thrown up by the region’s former communist rulers, are being knocked down. Occasionally one will be truncated, shorn of its upper storeys. Older streets are gap-toothed where wreckers have removed abandoned houses. Cityscapes are being pruned, removing dead and [...]