You might call this an anti-technology post because its about hanging clothes to dry. Today’s Times has a back to the past story from a woman in California who bypassed the rules of her community and put up a clothesline. I remember my grandmother having a line that ran from her second floor open porch down to a pole in the backyard. It was a continuous loop on pulleys so she could hang the laundry from the porch, give the line a pull and add more without leaving the house. Clothesline technology.
The first house my parents had had a t-shaped set of poles set in concrete in the backyard for multiple lines. I also remember a pole-mounted carousel type of thing that was round and rotated.
For a compendium of all things laundry-wise visit laundrylist.org- I couldn’t resist borrowing the image on this post from their site.

Many Eyes is a free beta tool from IBM that creates ‘visualizations‘ from data sets. These are then shared on the site (there are thousands). Anyone can use it. MIT’s Technology Review has an article with details.
The one shown is carbon emissions by country shown as a cloud diagram.