what a lovely shade of pink

Via Jerry Michalski, a presentation by Jay Cross titled Another Pattern Language: Real Life Patterns Chez Christopher Alexander, which details the patterns of Alexander's own house in the Berkeley hills.

Warning: not for the architecturally faint at heart.

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[Dick Costolo]

This reminds me of a great (and possibly apocryphal) christopher alexander story via a former friend of his. Alexander is telling some client where a window needs to go in some room, the client asks "why there?" and Alexander says "because the voices say so". The voices are apparently dictating other fundamental operating principles of insanity as well.