information aesthetics.
an ambient weather widget that applies the current wind conditions to any user-chosen website. it uses a United States ZIP Code to grab local conditions from the Yahoo Weather RSS feed, & animates individual pieces of the website, such as text blocks & images, according to the strength of the wind.
see also informative google themes & unseen weather video & voloce weather visualization & weather datacloud.
[link: stewdio.org & stewdio.org|thnkx Alistair]
I thought I might tweak this to use something besides the weather feed, so I looked at the .js file. Turns out it doesn't use any feed. It uses random numbers and characters in a string (that includes the supposed zip code) to move the content elements around. Disappointing.
actually it does use a feed. the JS file contains PHP that grabs and parses the RSS then spits out the JS variables. you don't see it because PHP is executed server-side. notrton, you jumped to conclusions without really checking the data . . . disappointing.