not long ago, on a cold late morning close to lunch, i made a bowl of whole-grain udon dressed with a vast quantity of chopped cilantro and...

so, i'm trying to get this project off the ground. Max : youre a little model-happy 2:16 PM me : hey? Max : im reading your document ...

a nice new idea for a game , even though i don't play online games ever.

you know what's really spectacular? when the skies are the grey of galvanised metal and it has just rained. at this time of year when th...

this is a great idea even if aaron says it's not as data-intensive as i think it is.

i like to say that everything is polycausal. one example, obviously, is food. in 2005, we ran a tutorial in the biology department here (bi...

the workmanship of risk is the kind of work in which serendipity can make itself visible. one of the major characters of the workmanship of ...

Pride in craftsmanship is well explained by saying that to labor is to pray, for conscientious effort to realize an ideal is a kind of fidel...

this is quite good. (ironic)

bending it:

this week, we read from various writers on inequality in power. (and also from marx's capital and the grundrisse , but of those two dens...

they are just down the street, so are convenient for lunch on those days when i have so many seminars that i end up in william james all day...

From Manteq al-Tayr , Farid ud-Din Attar (Fitzgerald, trans.): But how could you have expected to travel that path in thought alone; how exp...

i took alain de botton's architecture of happiness out of lamont last week. it may be the pleasantest architectural theory i've eve...

an online RPG featuring characters such as: Pastamancer With his mastery of the arcane secrets of Noodlecraft, the Pastamancer is a forc...

finally, but marred by a really crummy logo: wuala

a great short film by chuck kraemer, about letterpress (specifically, a small press now in allston). elsa dorfman, the fabled portrait photo...

"the crystal goblet" by beatrice warde (a short read available here ) is a crisp exposition of invisible typography, the idea that...

the rubin museum will host a traveling exhibition of still-consecrated bhutanese buddhist art (per the nyt ). The works in the exhibition a...

this is neat. the graphic border is made of little elements broadly-themed by book category (nonfiction, arts, children, etc) and then reas...

after everyone left, whit and i spent the weekend working on stuff -- she was much more efficient and got out at 6-ish, but i was in there l...

effie sent this , a pair of germans who photograph lightpaths in remote locations. some of their work reminds me of the photo-respiration se...

you get what you pay for poplar, milk paint, red oak 18" x 5" x 2.5"

aaron got me from google and we picked up some coffee from downtown mountain view before heading to the airport where he was going to collec...

from little, big : "Life is acts, and not thoughts and things. An act is a thought and a thing both at once, only it has this shape, se...

after the evening sessions on saturday, a small group of people gathered around for folk music next to the tent city. i sat next to a physic...

i got to sci foo camp late on friday afternoon -- back at google for the first time in 2 months. it's surreal to be back and yet not bac...

the last few weeks have been really packed at the ranch. we had tom huang on bamboo, wendy maruyama and judy mckie teaching the maruyama va...

laura mcphee (daughter, incidentally, of john) was at the ranch a few weeks back. for her guest lecture, she showed her quite beautiful pho...

i've been trying to get a copy of lawrence weschler's wanderer in a perfect city for at least a year; the san francisco library had...