If you live in the Berkeley hills and you care about <http://www.math.utsa.edu/sphere/salingar/Chris.text.html> Christopher Alexander's work, you probably know that he lives in a quirky, kinda homely pink house on Shasta. I'd never really stopped to look, but the always wry <http://metatime.blogspot.com/> Jay Cross did. Then he decided to distill the pattern language he saw in use there, which you can see in a brief presentation <http://internettime.com/Learning/alexander.swf> here. I'd never noticed Funky Mailbox or Inaccessible Door. I think we all use Improvised Cable Access. For a look at the original patterns in <http://www.sociate.com/www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0195019199/jerrymich alskisr> A Pattern Language, visit <http://www.patternlanguage.com/> here. posted by Jerry Michalski at <http://www.sociate.com/blog/archives/2005_04_01_archive.html#11149708749799 2191> 10:41 PM
