Author: Mike Garrity
Congress Speaks
Since the presidential election, there’s been a lot of action on making it easier for the public to get information about what the government is doing. For examples, check out Data.gov, Sunlight Labs, and...
Little Boxes
I just finished reading The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton. It’s an interesting exploration of what makes good architecture work, and why so much architecture doesn’t work. The last chapter is really...
Band Concert, July 28
Another band concert last night. It was a beautiful night for it, and the band sounded great … … but Tom and Pete spent most of the concert way in the back, whittling.
Synchronous Objects
Go check out this interesting dance piece. It’s a performance of William Forsythe’s One Flat Thing, reproduced with visual annotations added using a graphics package called Field. It was done by Norah Zuniga Shaw.
Spore Internals
This is the sort of thing that usually goes in my work blog, but the kids are both big fans of Spore, so I’m going to post it here instead. Chris Hecker has written...
Math Midway
Glen Whitney is trying to create a museum of mathematics. There have been articles about the project recently in the New Yorker, Gelf magazine, and the Daily News. His website for the project is...
Chimp Grooming and Dunbar’s Number
Chimpanzees congregate in groups called troupes and exhibit a behavior called grooming. Two chimps sit next to each other and one of them picks dirt and bugs out of the other one’s hair. This...
