"Mongrel2 is an application, language, and network architecture agnostic web server that focuses on web applications using modern browser technologies." I always thought of Mongrel as a Ruby thing. Zed Shaw is a good designer, this is worth a look.
"The Wilderness Downtown -
Choreographed windows, interactive flocking, custom rendered maps, real-time compositing, procedural drawing, 3D canvas rendering... this Chrome Experiment has them all. "The Wilderness Downtown" is an interactive interpretation of Arcade Fire's song "We Used To Wait" and was built entirely with the latest open web technologies, including HTML5 video, audio, and canvas."
"motionless is a Python library that takes the pain out of generating Google Static Map URLs. Three map types are supported. Each is illustrated below. For fully worked code see the examples directory for code that parses and visualizes both GeoRSS feeds and GPX files."
It seems improbable that a piece of ancient machinery, a contraption of levers and pulleys designed in 1913, would be critical to the successful operation of one of the nation’s largest commuter railroads.
"The common theme with the charts shown on this page is they are obviously all generated in code and are algorithmic. Some demonstrate bizarre price or size cycling, some demonstrate large burst of quotes in extremely short time frames and some will demonstrate both. In most cases these sequences are from a single exchange with no other exchange quoting in the same time frame."
"Polymaps is a free JavaScript library for making dynamic, interactive maps in modern web browsers.
Polymaps provides speedy display of multi-zoom datasets over maps, and supports a variety of visual presentations for tiled vector data, in addition to the usual cartography from OpenStreetMap, CloudMade, Bing, and other providers of image-based web maps."