Rack o’ seats, Tate Modern, London, July 2008

This is a nice touch: self-serve portable seating for your journey through an art museum.

Two articles in today’s NYT deal with attempts to rethink minor but impactful elements of the travelling experience – the hotel check-in kiosk and the middle seat on a commuter train. Seems that they can’t build/install/maintain a working kiosk (more a comment on industry culture than technology) and that we may see more trains without the (socially) uncomfortable middle seat.