The grid is not only predictable but indeterminate, not only prescriptive but ambiguous. albert pope, "the open city," in ladd...

backstage at the ignobels , a suitcase is re-filled with appealingly goofy  frog-shaped pitch/volume instruments . from japan, of course...

To live well in community, our individual consumption and acquisition will be reined in and held by the bonds of inconvenience. In turn, we...

shock cord makes jack purcell much easier. this is MSR's silicone-core product  intended for replacing tent-pole cords. you will also...

in revere, mass. on a hot and cloudy day, after a lobster roll of truly epic size, it is entirely appropriate to take a cone of soft serve f...

(a crocheted robot, of course.)

Being in Boston ... it's a little bit like meeting someone who you know is smart and very accomplished but is at the same time not at a...

freedom is often misunderstood as the absence of constraints on your action. this is not the case: freedom is your ability to voluntarily ch...

last night, we talked about the difference between services that allow users to be remotely co-present and those that allow users to remotel...

as ever,  xkcd  is a trenchant observer of our world. in this case, i have shanghaied this comic to concisely make the claim that it is ofte...

jess, our midwest correspondent , sends a poem in book spines from the shelves of michigan's largest bookstore . Look no further: ...

There were some good students, and wonderful moments. I think of a class I taught in Philadelphia one evening, at a reformatory. The studen...

this is the official bonbon of the academy of management's organizational behavior division. (milk chocolate with artificially flav...

Science originated from the fusion of two old traditions, the tradition of philosophical thinking that began in ancient Greece and the trad...

edward tufte 's film —  about what  inge druckrey (a swiss graphic designer on the faculty at the university of the arts in philadelphi...

asobi , by yasutoki kariya [via spoon and tamago ]

from detroit, jess sends fresh garlic, music, coffee, jam (a new siri-undertaking), white rabbits, fruit, a book . the moustache is for ...

i believe, the way some xooglers do, that properly targeted, relevant, well-produced ads are unobjectionable and can even be enjoyable. spot...

i don't have stuff shipped to me very often, so the arrival of a box in the mail is the occasion for great excitement: what new develo...

and certainly not for mobile devices. the size of a device determines its mobility:  those intended to be mobile, such as laptops and smart...

if the round-trip travel time from san francisco to burning man were less than 24 hours, i would contemplate going again. i packed for bur...

sources close to the matter tell us that the lobsters are swarming from the seas in such profusion that the bottom has fallen out of the mar...