An important point: the DMV is not open on Mondays ( Read more... )

It's . . . three of my favorite things combined into one piece of awesome. Using knitting needles on the ISS for charged particle experiments. Which help humans visualize how auroras happen.

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SPACE!

That is all, carry on.

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Look, let's not even. Just. I-. Life's been busy. Atrociously so. Here is a card. It is for a holiday. Let us pretend that holiday is today. We shall speak no more of my complete lack of timing.


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Irish scientists discover a diamond star! Or, rather, a zirconium star. So, you know. A fake-bling star. And actually, the zirconium isn't in the star, the particles are dispersed in clouds that hover above the corona ( Read more... )

The Antikythera mechanism! No longer shall it languish on the seabed nor shall it be hidden in away in some museum. At long last it has been rebuilt!

OUT OF LEGOS.

(The math is so perfect I want to cry. Babbage would be proud. Or jealous, I'm not sure ( Read more... )

Back in November I worked on a whole bunch of hangtag designs for my hats as well as a fresh batch of business cards, and I must say they arrived very smartly. (Thank you to all who bore with me through my design existential angst.)


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While certainly not a dense read (it's too flippant and modernized, if anything). Passionate Minds: The great love affair of the Enlightenment, featuring the scientist Emilie du Châtelet, the poet Voltaire, sword fights, book burnings, assorted kings, seditious verse, and the birth of the modern world is proving to be a great source for ( Read more... )

While I look for a three sided coin to flip to decide between working on knitting algorithms, working on S.W.A.M.I. collector's cards or sleeping, why not enjoy these two delectable skywatching tidbits? (They're timely!)

• Space shuttle Endeavor & the ISS will be doing a visible tandem fly-by Saturday night/Sunday morning over southern Canada/ ( Read more... )

It started out as a warm-up exercise mostly, to get ready to mock-up some business cards, to remind myself how to manipulate type in Illustrator, to get all of that over-the-top Victorian design urge out of my system so that I can focus on what the client wants ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday, Charles Babbage! Sydney Padua, the creator of the marvelous 2-D Goggles comic shares a few links to help us celebrate it:

• Darwin's letter about Babbage (that's two celebrations with one stone, remember that it's still The Origin of Species' sesquicentennial year!)

• Original drawings and specs for the Difference Engine I suggest ( Read more... )