Ride Tiger to BART

Now that BART isn't going on strike after all (probably), we thought you'd want to know about a great new way to plan your next trip. Friend of SFist Stewf called our attention to Bret Victor's BART Widget for the new Dashboard feature of Apple's latest OS, Tiger. We haven't converted over to Tiger yet, so we haven't really gotten up to speed on the new widget culture, but Stewf assures us that the BART Widget is a welcome break from other widgets he's seen, most of which he has deemed "turdy." Victor's non-turdy baby is a cute little trip planner that apparently doesn't need a connection, so you can take it with you on your PowerBook. No mention of what happens when the BART schedule changes, however.

Another plus of the BART Widget is that it's open source; Victor invites anyone making their own trip-planning widget to use his code to jump-start theirs.

And finally, it's free, but if you want to show the programmer some love and thanks for keying in that mountain of schedule data, buy one of his CafePress swag. (Though it pains us to say it, while the BART Widget itself is cute, the t-shirts are, well, kinda turdy.)