Searching for a small latch that fastens the gas cap in place on a 1973 Honda CB350/Four sent me to Sportwheels in Jordon, MN. Where, apparently, these machines go to die. The inventory on the ground was overwhelming (see above), and this was just the vintage Honda section. It was both sad and fascinating.

S1, S2, and I quickly found what we needed. It felt strangely familiar as I knelt over the dead machine to scavenge the required parts. It strikes me that I’ve done this all my life, resurrecting some ancient hardware or device. Computers, bicycles, cameras, cars, and bikes, we have a special relationship.

(See also: sportwheel.com)

I drew these Yeast protein interaction networks on a arc with the Javascript Protovis.js using the HTML5 canvas object as the pallet. Displayed are only a select number of edges though all the nodes of interest are listed. If you drill down on the baseline you can see the names of the ORFs. ORFs are clustered by gene, but otherwise there is little meaning in horizontal distance.

Ultimately, this should be an interactive tool for visual selection of biologically relevant interactions, resulting in tabular data retrieved from supporting databases.

(See also: protovis)