i bought the tummy trilogy in 1999 and calvin trillin almost immediately became my most favoured writer about food. like the best, he is as...

maps, annotations, and wearable . do we want one? yes. yes, we do.

the last four days have been distinctly surreal. leaving a totalizing job is a wrenching experience, the more so if you have had, last minut...

i was up near toronto last week at the university of guelph , hanging out with the people from the biodiversity institute of ontario . paul ...

here's an interesting project : ask people what comes to mind when they see a brand, then show the results as a tag cloud with frequency...

i've been trying to finish this side chair before leaving for aspen and i spent all of last weekend shaping the seat and back, then sand...

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...