bent objects is full of things (many of them strangely orange snacks) doing things to other things. the circus peanut circus is a personal ...

the ground at skaftajokull was hard at 8am on the second day, and the water from brushing my teeth congealed and froze in just a few minutes...

(thank you, julian .)

more stuff from joshua allen harris

the HD video of chad pugh 's science machine , entirely made from scratch in adobe illustrator. christiaan postma 's...

a highly-caffeinated 4 hours in seattle. first stop was the espresso vivace at e denny and broadway to get some of emails out of the way,...

time's photo essays are compelling and strange (they have one about avant garde gardens , another about wool gathering , and a third abo...

stephen fry, the bbc, and typography: an entrancing combination. fry , author of many and various books including moab is my washpot and ma...

on the second floor of the library at the MBL/woods hole oceanographic institute , a letter left behind by a japanese researcher abandoning...

from the new yorker review of richard sennett's the craftsman : The template of craftsmanship ... combines a “material consciousness” w...

i've been in woods hole the last couple days for a meeting of the biodiversity informatics advisory group for the encyclopedia of life. ...

this has been around for some time but i just saw it over the shoulder of another attendee at this meeting i'm at. flight information ov...

north-facing view of jökulsárlón gigapan: jökulsárlón after sundown this is gigapan #2 and the smallest of the iceland gigapans (only 112 ph...

just found -- a video showing the typeface:

fabrico proprio (english text is below portuguese text on most pages) is a project to document the semi-industrial confections of portuga...

i woke up 20 minutes before landing at keflavik when the plane banked and a host of cellophane-wrapped dinner rolls tumbled over the aisle a...

i left san francisco for iceland by way of boston on april fools night, having spent the day collecting the last provisions on my list (a la...

after lots of messing about with mounting the canon S5 IS on the the gigapan, i bailed on it in favour of charlie's fancy new canon G9 c...

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: