Ambigrams are hot. They’ve been around forever as a curiosity but are catching on in logos and type now because…I don’t know – everything else has been done? Check out this gallery at wired.
A web-search on ambigrams will turn up a bunch of tattoo sites. Something about their symmetry and mystical puzzling quality makes people [...]
Long ago, when I started this blog, I wanted to release some new clock designs. I was motivated by the TokyoFlash approaches, and wanted to come up with some based on epicyclic movement. Why would one bother? Longer ago, I had difficulty reading an ‘analog’ clock. I was a child of the digital age, and [...]
There are only a few magazines I read so thoroughly that I run out of articles before the replacement shows up on the newsstand, but Newsweek is one of them. The last page alternately written by Anna Quindlen and George Will is a favorite. While Ms. Quindlen is a superior writer (I’d kill for that [...]
A few weeks ago, I finally got around to watching “The Inconvenient Truth.” The next day the Wired magazine showed up with a special on cutting carbon. How could we have been stupid for so long? Well, the following equation is just so damn easy on this planet:
_CnHm + _O2 = _CO2 + _H2O + [...]
I’ve finally decided to restart my blog after one and a half years with a bit of nostalgia from exactly* one and a half decades ago. But I don’t want to dwell on old friends and inside jokes. Instead, I want to tell you, oh faceless reader, about a neat game we invented.That year, I [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about hybridding. A hybrid, in the modem context, is something that will combine multiple energy sources to perform a single function. Two things about this are difficult. First, the device must be fairly intelligent to manage the 2 sources. Simply, plug it in and close the switch will no [...]
I know I haven’t written an entry in a while, and this short one really doesn’t satisfy, but here goes.
This is a picture of 3 packages that arrived at our house last week. Each contained exactly one small item (the light green packages). All are from the same company and yet each uses a different [...]
I’ve been talking on and off about how we don’t use our own human energy anymore – everything is electric or hydrocarbon powered. In the spirit of hybridding, it’d be nice to harness human power where appropriate. There are better studies of this topic than what I’m about to write, but this one is compact [...]