20 Things About the Web
Confused about the alphabet soup of cool new features which make your web browser work today? Christoph Niemann has created a really cute and gentle introduction for the noob. Highly recommended, but it’s probably...
Author: Mike Garrity
Cooks Source
We post a lot of recipes on this blog, so we’ve been following this week’s Cooks Source scandal with interest. If you haven’t heard the story, there was a pretty good story about it...
Processing for Android
We started messing around with the Android version of Processing the other day. It was really easy to get some of our old sketches running on the emulator. Most sketches only required a one...
The “Lie” of Economics
I really enjoyed the first two paragraphs of this book review by William Davies: Every orthodox economics education begins with a lie. This is that, in the vernacular of neo-classical economics, we can and...
Daniel Shiffman Interview
I really enjoyed this interview with Daniel Shiffman by Mark Webster that I ran into on Ben Fry’s twitter stream. Daniel Shiffman from Mark Webster on Vimeo.
Head of the Charles
Here are some pictures we took at the Head of the Charles on Saturday. There was lots of good food there. I think that this is the only picture I have of Peter where...
Education Nation Scorecard
Have you seen this? It’s an interesting, interactive tool for showing your local schools’ assessment statistics to other schools. It has a couple of odd UI problems (maps without pan/zoom, important info hiding “below...
Whooping Cough Outbreaks
Did you know that California is currently having the worst outbreak of whooping cough in 60 years? Nine infants have died this year. Can you guess the cause? Yeah, it’s probably the anti-vaccine crazies....
