Those sets of meanings, layered like a palimpsest, might appear suddenly, where we least expect them, in the address bar at the top of our browsers.
We all think of our browsers as being relatively passive applications, but the truth is they push huge amounts of data in and out of RAM, run constant searches against your temp folders and cookies, and all kinds of other things that you don't really notice.
We know what this feels like in the physical world, and we are learning what this feels like in the virtual one, starting with ad and tracking blocking, which adds a higher degree of privacy to our browsers".
We therefore chose to utilize the layout of an existing familiar pathway map as the basis of our pathway browser rather than creating a new one.
Most of us take our browser software for granted using Firefox, Chrome, Safari or even (heaven forbid!) Internet Explorer as web information portals and nothing more.
I've talked before on this blog about the efforts we've made to provide the best possible service on mobile, so it's great to see that in this time, half of our global browsers have been on a mobile or tablet and at weekends this figure grows to 60%,.
This development comes hot on the heels of a major upgrade of our free mobile browser service, m.guardian.co.uk, which we re-launched last month.
The current version of our Streptococcus Genome Browser (fig. 6) is publicly available at: http://strep-genome.bscb.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/hgGateway.
In a recent paper, a group of Cornell researchers proposed that our browsers could bombard us with strange but provocative messages to make us alert to the very information infrastructure that some designers have done their best to conceal.
BIND is the software that allows us to type site names like www.yahoo.com instead of the machine numbers (204.71.177.97) our browsers really need.
