Just before the bombing began, Thomas Ingmire asked friends in an email to send him calligraphy with their thoughts about the Iraq war. His email was forwarded. And forwarded. And forwarded. The result: He received more than 400 pieces of calligraphy from all over the world. Some are beautiful, some scary and many are very [...]
I’m currently reading Bill Bryson’s new book “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, and as the title suggests, it is an all-encompassing tour de force across all the major sciences, their history and personalities. I’m thoroughly enjoying this book, it is not just a great (but light) refresher in the natural sciences, it offers many [...]
I just found Killer Fonts while surfing through the delightfully random Geisha Asobi weblog… Now this is a novel idea! Killer Fonts is taking hand writing samples from historic persons like George Washington, Leonardo da Vinci and Jesse James and converts these into Windows and Mac fonts that you can use for your personal correspondence. [...]
Here we go! Pacific Tides is finally online… As a first entry, here is some Good Stuff: A couple of days ago I stumbled over the whole Amazon wish list thing. Well, I kinda knew that wish lists exist, but I never realized that you can search for other people’s wish lists. And Jon Carroll [...]