After 36 years of operation, the Blacksburg, Va., High School gymnasium collapsed shortly before 1:37 p.m. Saturday. Fortunately, nobody was inside the building when it happened.
A tragedy was narrowly averted, though, as the high school girls basketball team was practicing in the gym earlier that morning and two maintenance workers examining cracks in the [...]

In order to continue my week-long obsession with the WWE, I wanted to post this link.
Though the graphic went up Wednesday, I wanted to leave the photo of Mark Henry, Tony Atlas and me at the top of my blog for as long as possible.
Our rock-star photo intern John W. Adkisson had the idea to [...]

As I promised yesterday, here’s the the May Wildflower graphic that ran today. I’m really happy with it because it incorporates audio, video and our new Flash template.
I also redesigned the April Wildflower graphic. It used to be a pop-out graphic that was pretty nifty in terms of navigation, but it wasn’t nearly as [...]

I’ve been busy lately, really. But the truth about this week-long drought is that my computer is getting slower by the day, and the simple task of posting a blog update from home is getting pretty frustrating.
But anyway, enough of my rants.
On Sunday, the Cabell Brand interactive timeline ran after more than a month [...]

Just a quick post because I’ve been a nerd the past few days, but MIT’s SIMILE project just released a new open-source site to create widgets out of a few of their graphs.
I’ve been knee-deep in SIMILE javascript the past few days, so this was slightly exciting to me when I heard it. I [...]