Research and documentation projects that don’t fit under energy, transport, combinatorics or cryptography.
The London-based Pakistani commodity dealer at the centre of Australia’s 1975 Loans Affair, which contributed to the dismissal of the Whitlam government. A sourced timeline of his life assembled from contemporary press, archives and court records.
A documentation site for the derelict Waltons/Overell department-store building in Brisbane: heritage-register records, land titles, forty years of court files, and a timeline built from primary sources rather than press coverage.
The documents seized in the 1979 takeover of the US embassy in Tehran were republished by the students as the 73-volume Asnad-e Lane-ye Jasusi series. This is a searchable single-page OCR edition of the roughly 6,300 English-language source pages (16 MB), with a companion dramatis personae — 370 people indexed, with CIA cryptonyms decoded where possible. Source scans: Internet Archive.
An interactive 3D map built for the Newcastle Cycleways Movement. It reproduces the Institute for Sensible Transport’s Bicycle Use Propensity Index — the metric behind the City of Newcastle’s Cycling Plan 2021–2030 — recovering the exact 2016 formula and refreshing it with 2021 census data for a like-for-like comparison. (Interactive WebGL page; loads its map libraries from a CDN.)
Visitors’ verdicts on the compulsory hire-bike helmets of Rottnest Island, Western Australia — a collection of contemporary accounts.
Cycling-history radio interviews (ABC Victoria regional stations, 12 October 2021):
Cryptography-related material — articles, group posts, bibliographies and radio interviews — is on the Kryptos page.