Getting rid of the books
The Boston Globe recently had an article about changes that Cushing Academy is making to their library. They’re getting rid of all of the books! They’re replacing them with Kindles, flat screen TVs, and...
Author: Mike Garrity
The Preservation of Favoured Traces
Here’s a neat project by Ben Fry. It’s a visualization of the differences between the different editions of On the Origin of Species. It’s a little like the tools that programmers use to manage...
Lime Rock 2009 – The Cars
We’re back from Lime Rock. We had a great time, met lots of interesting people, saw lots of spectacular cars, and took lots and lots of photographs. I’m going to break this into a...
Sol LeWitt @ Mass MOCA
We got out to North Adams to see the big Sol LeWitt exhibit at Mass MOCA this weekend. Sol LeWitt was one of the founders of Conceptualism and Minimalism in the 60’s. He did...
W154 at Lime Rock
The Lime Rock vintage races are this weekend. We’re really looking forward to them. The highlight this year is that a 1939 Mercedes W154 Silver Arrow is coming. I’m sure we’ll come back with...
The Post-American World
I finally got around to reading Fareed Zakaria’s The Post-American World. I had read the reviews when it first came out and seen him on The Daily Show a few times, but the book...
Will Wright & E O Wilson
NPR has an occasional series called Open Mic where they have a guest interview somebody they find interesting, This morning it featured two of our favorite people. The interviewer was the game designer Will...
Grandpa’s Todo List
My parents were visiting this summer to get out of the Florida summer heat. My father isn’t very good at sitting still. He’s much happier if you give him a list of things to...
When a Good Idea Works
The latest issue of Technology Review has a nice article by John Maeda about the early history of Processing. Fry and Reas were students of Maeda’s at the Media Lab, and Processing was heavily...
