Archive for February, 2007
My house doesn’t have much of a front porch and I’ve been thinking about making it a little more usable.
Good introduction to the history of the American front porche:
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CLASS/am483_97/projects/cook/first.htm
Interesting site about the history of U.S. highways.
http://www.us-highways.com/
In 1956 Florida started color coding the signs for its U.S. Highways. The concept was efficient. Even if you could not yet read the road number you could easily know which lane to get into to follow the road. During the 1980s our dear Federals told Florida that if they wanted color coded ease of use they would no longer pay for the signs and the state could foot the entire bill.
You can see the colors here:
http://www.us-highways.com/flausa.htm
and here:
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~jlin/signs/usa/Florida/US.html
Some more here:
http://www.southeastroads.com/florida.html