ipomoea batatas , you are my helpmeet. having made two sweet potato pies in the last two days, here is the freshly-tuned, officially-sanctio...

swerrrrrrt .

marrrrrvelous .

The expansion of the circle that fills the view and interest of individuals may frequently give rise to a particular form of egoism that eng...

The felt insecurity concerning the basis of such relations often moves us, who desire to maintain the relation at all cost, to acts of exagg...

and craig and jenny thought there wouldn't be enough food. they were disabused of the notion by 4.30pm, at which time the side counter w...

oblong industries is developing an operating environment that relies on gestural input and thus allows data presentation in more than the u...

who's bryan? no clue, but the pictures here are sweet.

i cannot comprehend why people make a huge fuss about dark chocolate and regard milk chocolate eaters as pariahs of a particularly egregious...

having recently completed a small-N analysis, i conclude that startups by ex-googler ( xooglers , if you will) look sort of like google prod...

Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of the files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reducing of friction and of mate...

last night, yochai benkler made the usual introductory remarks in advance of the berkman center 's workshop on subject security. Some M...

every so often, i come across something that feels great; some organization has gone and used the resources available to it and done somethi...

the toaster for the well-equipped home . (unfortunate: depending on the image, the product is likely an uncrisp piece of toast.)

What man most passionately wants is his living wholeness and his living unison, not his own isolate salvation of his "soul." Man w...

I find it useful to think of the ego complex as a thing that keeps expanding, not as something to be overcome or done away with. An ego has ...

michael arranged for us to visit the houghton today to see books printed from the days of classical printing through to the revival of arti...

fao schwartz has a new service that allows you to make your own muppet online . presumably, the patterns get sent to some lasercutter somewh...

what else is really nice: when the night before was damp, the day that follows is dry and sunny, the leaves on the walnut and beech in the y...

a neat collection assembled by michael russem (i think as part or consequence of designing the mentoring stamp ). for reasons not entirely ...

after press last night, we watched final marks , a short film about letter design and letter cutting in stone at the john stevens shop in n...

finally .

when enough data gets together, neat stuff happens . it's probably not precise enough to call it an emergent property of data en masse, ...

As you set out for Ithaka hope your road is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery. Laistrygonians, Cyclops, angry Poseidon—do...

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...