pages look right in Firefox while there are issues in Explorer. (Get Firefox now.)  If you were here earlier and experienced wonky clicking in FireFox, Smackerel is pleased to announce that the problem is fixed. It was not the fault of the extremely elegant javascript we have relied on, but a whacky interaction between CSS and javascript that was the fault of my little hands of concrete. The Black and White Computer When I mention that Dave & I have been making interactive media since 'the days when it was black and white,' some people laugh, assuming I'm just making a joke. Others nod, knowingly; they remember. Photography and television began black and white and evolved into colour, but multimedia followed a different path. Videodiscs and computer games delivered colourful interactive experiences long before a black and white computer inspired a new generation of pioneers. In the early eighties, the personal computer was an idea still taking form. A few million hobbyists were playing around with the command line interfaces and clunky hardware of the first consumer computers. Most of us had little sense of how much our world was about to change, no clue that the future was about to slip into our homes and offices disguised as beige plastic boxes. Thinktanks and visionaries had been inventing the future for decades, and had been experimenting with graphic interfaces since the sixties. Apple successfully incorporated these ideas into a relatively affordable personal computer in 1984, the Macintosh. The development