Speaking of warping, grass posted this on dump.fm (among other things). Possibly the source was thengb but it may have been modified further. Getting it under 300 KB via dithering adds to bafflement of what's going on in this abject morph. (The less clarity, the more the imagination supplies, or something.)
Ken Shirriff has been restoring a vintage Xerox Alto computer (the PC Steve Jobs "borrowed" his ideas from). On Day 10 Shirriff got the Draw 4.5 program up and running. He can't draw with it yet because the mouse that came with the Alto isn't compatible (the donor bought a substitute off eBay, it turns out). But here's what the interface looks like (jpeg cropped into two parts to fit here):
Some of these functions are familiar and some are obscure but it's intriguing to see a 37 year old toolbar. Eventually, maybe, we'll have our Roland Barthes who can explain how present-day visual language was warped, I mean, shaped, by this configuration.
