Mike Travers Quality Assortment

Michael Travers' site of miscellaneous, probably out of date.

I live in beautiful Pacifica, CA, south of San Francisco. Motto: "not as foggy as you've been led to believe".
Blogging on mostly non-technical matters at Omniorthogonal.
Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and assorted wastes of time.

Visualizing the relationship between population density and politics with d3.
LinkBack, a Chrome extension that adds automatic backlinks to every web page you visit.
A tiny crude step towards hypertext worthy of the name.
A Heroku buildpack for Common Lisp
Making music with Clojure and JFugue, a very introductory tutorial
Twitlines, a timeline-based view of Twitter
SWFrames, a Common Lisp package that implements a semantic-web backed frame system
WuWei, a Common Lisp toolkit for creating modern websites.
Some Ubiquity commands (these have mostly stopped working due to Ubiquity changes)
Visual browser for the Tree of Life.
BioBike (formerly BioLingua)
A web-based programmable knowledge environment for computational biology. See the this paper in Bioinformatics.
Now with an Ajax-based visual programming language.
PatBlocks
A Java program for making geometric patterns. Started as a toy for my kids and got somewhat out of control.
Pretty pictures here.
Afferent
A system for managing lab information for drug discovery, particularly combinatorial chemistry. I was UI lead and implemented a variety of subsystems.
See this success story for more.
Skij
A Java-based scripting language and development tool.
Older projects in Artificial Life and Visual Programming
from previous life at MIT Media Lab.