it's great to come to work and have a new gizmo waiting to be fooled around with. randy sargent from CMU west came over on monday from ...

i ran by lolo (22nd st, between mission and valencia) over the weekend and noticed the intelligent use of waste materials (mostly fabric and...

(again from vinay) moritz stefaner has a great experiment in organizing and displaying structured data -- he's taken the nobel laureat...

this neat flow simulator for traffic from ETH zurich's sociology department (the ornate Chair of Sociology, in particular of Modeling a...

the bradshaw foundation has an animated spatial chronology of the spread of humanity from africa to the rest of the world covering over 150...

a few weeks ago on a sunday, jini called me from atop a mountain in san diego and asked if i wanted some lumber. the next day, i went to jes...

tengu, a USB-powered face that responds to ambient sound, joins the ranks of relatively pointless objects that are still quite nice. made, o...

after getting through the usual silliness of certifying to a website that you are old enough to drink and of downloading the latest flashpla...

and additional thoughts triggered by champion script pro : champion comes closer to replicating a good calligrapher through brute force (ie ...

in designing typefaces, the amount and regularity of interaction between characters is inversely proportional to the complexity of the desig...

after an abortive and frustrating series of attempts to find parking on russian hill on saturday night, anne and i decided to bail on a part...

courtesy of effie, a history of food in war:

so, i see tiffany on gchat and i show her a photo of my favourite piece, a small, round-bottomed bowl turned from freshly-cut copper beech a...

my cousin, who is brilliant, sent me a link to the skinhead hamlet .

leave it to the swiss . they also have the world's most beautiful passports (designed by herzog & de meuron , of course).

green-turned copper beech, allowed to warp and dry, then steamed, hand-ground, and finished with varnish. grew-sheridan studio, san francisc...

with hand-cut dovetail joinery and irregular sides. in the days before thin plywood, drawers and boxes would have wood plank bases with the ...

thanks to david lebovitz , who leads an apparently irritatingly carefree life eating his way through paris, i now know where to go, if ever ...

when i was in madrid a few years ago, the reina sofia had a brilliant exhibition called "the age of the monochrome" ( art in amer...

elizabeth blair from NPR's In Character series conducted a marvellous interview with cookie monster . what is cookie monster's leas...

maybe. physorg's article about a stanford study showing that human culture may be subject to natural selection is exciting. from the ph...

after finding the black phoenix alchemy lab , i began keeping an eye out for more people making a big deal of smell as a holder for memory. ...

i'm not sure why this is so appealing but there it is: style meets people is selling laser-engraved beans that sprout to show their mes...

i sent this article by giles turnbull on writing 3-line biographies to everyone i know who has a minor neurosis about their life stories. t...

bad weather on the east coast friday night delayed my flight out of boston just enough to make me miss the connection from houston to austin...

not what you might think; more a disquisition on the value of complete data in decision support. example 1 : whenever we consider strategies...

nassim nicholas taleb was the latest speaker in stewart brand's series of free public seminars about long-term thinking (SALT). the las...

from the research scientists at aji no moto *: activa TG . marvel at this sample meat application (sic): some suggested uses include Cold Bo...

around 11pm every night, i experience and succumb to the urge to make a grilled cheese sandwich. specifically, slices of light seeded rye or...