Foreign bodies.

Foreign Office Architects has its site at www.f-o-a.net. The body colour is eau-de-nil and the text dark blue, occasionally red and orange and, because it is very small, indistinct. You know, even before you try it, that the text will be unalterably, unreadably small. Adjusting the specs and peering really close you make out 'If your browser doesn't get anywhere from this page please press the refresh button of your browser window or [this is in red] press here'. The next line reads 'Should that not help please [and this is in orange] press here. When you do the latter up pops a pre-addressed Mozilla Thunderbird message form so you can rant at poor old Friedrich at FOA. Should you press the red text up comes a big pop-up with an outline map of the world which moves inexorably to the left. I have to say that the fourth time I looked at the site the world map appeared spontaneously--but the big pale green home page remained looming in the background. On the map you eventually notice the little circles--locations for current projects, you hazard. Naturally you hit on the one in the middle of the Pacific and up comes the expanding headline 'Virtual House' and then there is a screen with a strip of thumbnails which slides sideways when you click and when you click on a tiny image that might look interesting at a bigger size the strip has paroxysms ... truthfully it's a bit confusing. It's as if they explored the possibilities really seriously and three quarters of the way through got fed up with the complexities and put it on the web as it was.