Why? We’re in drought, so we don’t have water to flush toilets. The nutrients in shit should be re-used, and that is difficult when we dilute it with loads of water and mix it with god knows what else to be shipped off somewhere to be so-called ‘treated’. Also, flushing toilets mean we are flushing nutrients into receiving water bodies (even with excellent wastewater treatment, we’re still not doing well enough). So flushing is just a stupid idea. More about this in a presentation (pdf, 5MB) I recently gave. Continue reading “Jouissance toilet 2.0 – the foam flush”
the hello world of d3
After getting stuck on getting a squishy collision, I decided to go back to basics by following step by step this blog. Continue reading “the hello world of d3”
Toilet-love in the time of drought
(who got the movie reference?)
Cape Town is in the worst drought ever, and asides from all the panic this is generating some lovely publicity for the dry toilet. I’m getting a lot of emails.
Here’s the short version of my replies:
Jouissance toilet
My house was featured in Earthworks. Obviously I’m thrilled, but also a tad apprehensive. While I have a dry toilet in an affluent (medium density) urban environment, I am not suggesting that people at large use this; the practitioners (specifically Richard Holden) seem to agree that flush toilets remain the best default option – from a (rather centralised) waste management perspective. I don’t know how much of that is user psychology, I don’t think we’ve explored the options from the city planning, health, waste management and engineering sides… hence my interest. On the other hand, it’s worth taking a leap and seeing where it goes. So, one step at a time. Continue reading “Jouissance toilet”
Today a donut, tomorrow the world! Another adventure in D3
Earlier I succeeded, finally, in making a donut. Before I trust my own data, I’m adamant to make something pretty – the first tut’s example (thanks Mike Bostock!), to be precise. This has to do with figuring out the deal with commas. Continue reading “Today a donut, tomorrow the world! Another adventure in D3”
(still) learning how to do D3 in wordpress…
Howdy. I’m still trying to work in my model into an interactive data driven doc (D3) in wordpress. Some thoughts on my interim blog (https://indiebio.wordpress.com/visual-data/) and once I’ve got it all down I’ll neaten it up and create it’s own page. Continue reading “(still) learning how to do D3 in wordpress…”