Xach Beane on Google Maps
February 8th, 2005 | Tags: PL
Contra my previous post about JavaScript, in which I expressed guarded optimism for the benighted language, Xach Beane riffs on Google Maps. The article is either a very funny parody of Paul Graham, or just a very funny article. (My vote is for the former; peep the design.) Here’s a choice quote:
It’s not hard to guess that users will flock to dynamic, interactive interfaces like Google Maps and GMail. This sort of behavior is often described as sheep-like, but it more closely resembles a less common mammal: the naked mole-rat.[1] Without any ability to regulate their own temperature, they face what seems like an inevitable choice: cooperate with the hive or die.
But if people behave like small mammals, they would do well to imitate a different one. The star-nosed mole can identify an object as edible and consume it in less than 250 milliseconds. It’s no coincidence that the star-nosed mole’s claws are curved like parenthesis.
(via lemonodor, which is rapidly becoming my source for Javascript-related news, ha ha)