I spent a lot of time yesterday looking for good math websites, specifically sites for fractals and the Fibonacci sequence. I kept finding stuff like this.
Which is to say, badly designed, poor-usability sites with antique coding.
Why?
Why can’t we have some good math sites? Do we really have so little respect for math that no one in the whole world has yet been willing to pay for a good, modern website?
I find this frustrating. Here I am with an extremely high-value link to bestow, and all I can find is a bunch of horrible sites.
Science options are a little bit better. But it depends on your subject. Mitosis? Easy.
I’m working on a new site for a local natural foods store, and there too I’m giving away some high-value (for locals) links to alternative health care practitioners. They also all have rotten sites.
It’s possible that I’m becoming like those people who walk around all offended because other folks are badly 
dressed or overweight. I feel as though web surfers shouldn’t be forced to look at these badly-built sites.
I did a little knitting last night while watching Leverage. The second sleeve is about halfway finished. I may get this sweater done sometime soon.
I also walked through the snow, in the dark, to choir. And yes, indeed, I did slip on a bit of snow with ice under it, and fall, sliding neatly down into a ditch. But I just got up and walked on.
Janalisa gave me a ride home. Soon there’ll be light when it’s time to go to choir, and after that, there’ll even be light when it’s time to walk home. In the meantime, when #1 son is working on Wednesday evenings, I have a bit of a quandary.
I could carry a flashlight. That hadn’t occurred to me until just this moment, but it seems like a good idea.
Yes; please do carry a flashlight. With batteries in it.
I first heard about Fibonacci on Criminal Minds – an episode with Jason Alexander (Seinfeld’s George) on it. Interesting – a little complicated, but interesting. I’m reading another of Christopher Moore’s books: The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove. It’s funny.
pretty sweater!
@CanadianNational –
I think that’s the first of his books that I read. He’s funny
I bought a high intensity (7 LEDs) flashlight at CVS that’s very small (for the lighting power it packs). I put it in the pocket of my winter coat, and use it when I’m out after dark.
It shows me the condition of what I’m walking on (ice, snow, pavement cracks, etc.), but even more important, it makes me more visible to motorists, and therefore, safer.
I just take it with me any time I go out as a matter of course, and it’s been very useful. In fact, it just wore out the batteries last night, and that reminds me that I have to replace them.
I have another one stashed near where I usually knit. When I drop a stitch marker, or something, it makes it much more easy to find. In fact, I find that it’s very helpful for finding anything I’ve lost. I can use the flashlight to look where I’ve already looked, and suddenly, I find what I’m looking for, when I couldn’t before!
I’ve seen the Fibonacci series used to design the width of stripes on a sweater or scarf. They didn’t use the series in sequence, just used numbers from the sequence in random order, usually sticking to the low end.
I am SHOCKED when I find the same outdated and user-unfriendly sites over and over again. Recently I was looking for a site to teach kids about the stock market – perhaps an online trading game? I found sites not updated since 2000 or so, completely difficult to read through, the same useless links repeated over and over again on other sites… oh well, job security for you!
@DrTiff –
True. I guess if I can rewrite one a day for the rest of my life… Of course, they have to be redone every few years, too. Here’s a link on teaching about the stock market, by the way. It does have a couple of broken links at the end, but it’s got some good stuff, too. Stock Market Lesson Plans