Oscar the Mouse
Meet Oscar. He (she?) is the mouse that lives outside of my window. The bedroom in this new house is in the half-exposed basement. Oscar showed up after breakup this spring and is getting pretty fat and happy living off…
Christen Booth
Distracted.
Christen Booth
Distracted.
Enable Comments on Shared Items from Google Reader
Problem: As more and more people I know start sharing their reading from Google Reader I find that I want to comment back on the things they are sharing. There isn’t a super-easy way to do this yet (that I…
Create Visualizations of Your Last.fm History with LastGraph
LastGraph generates a visualization of your music history information from Last.fm – free. I’m a sucker for pretty data, so of course I generated a visualization for myself (pdf). Unfortunately, by linking my poster I’m disclosing my secret affinity for…
Food Inspiration
When things get busy in my life my food creativity decreases significantly, and I’m sure I am not the only person to experience this phenomena. During these times I simply can’t seem to do anything with the food in my…
Fairbanksans Messing With Google’s Street View Cameras?
Google’s Street View cameras were allegedly sabotaged in our little town of Fairbanks, AK recently. While it is unclear the actual circumstances surrounding the incident, it is hysterical to think there is some group of clandestine Alaskans running around thwarting…
RISD Alumni Art Sale
This Saturday, 03 May 2008, is the Rhode Island School of Design’s Spring Alumni Art Sale (whew, say that 10 times). Since I live in Alaska I won’t be going, but am delighted to be able to look through some…
Robot Nixon
“All hail robot Nixon”, and other similarly inspiring quotes are shining example as to why Futurama is infinitely entertaining. (No, I shouldn’t be working – I’m on lunch).
Light Bulb to Oil Lamp
The incandescent bulb has passed into the domain of old technology with the recent adoption of compact fluorescent bulbs by every day consumers. So what to do with those old bulbs? Inspired by Sergio Silva’s piece I set out to…
Earth Imagery as Inspiration
An Northwest of the village of Tiski in the Sakha region of Russia When I moved to Alaska and started flying around the state I was awestruck at the vascular textures on the terrain created by the seasonal transformation of…
Super Happy Fun Time Friday
Stephane Tartelin’s portfolio – I don’t think I’ve ever seen gesture drawings exude so much attitude. Twiddla – An quick online white board app with chat and a few extra surprising features. Honibe – One teaspoon-sized serving of dried honey…