I stumbled over Edward Tufte’s Sparklines this morning. Tufte’s The Visual Display of Quantitative Information is one of my favorite books and his essay The Cognitive Style of P

Michael Parekh pointed me to an awesome 10 minute movie of how the United States came together.

Slavomir Rawicz’s The Long Walk has replaced James Frey’s books as the best book of the year. Several people recommended it to me and it was simply awesome. Rawicz tells t

I have used a two monitor setup for several years (I’m about to try three just for the hell of it.) I discovered Ultramon the other day, downloaded it, and

Live8 is just awesome. I’ve been tethered to my computer for a while watching it live on AOL. Pink Floyd is on stage right now in London (the first time

I started my summer school program today. Yeah – I know it’s Saturday – but so what. I turned off my email (eek) and settled into an hour of Brian

Ah – today was delightful. I love the first day of a month, especially if it’s the day after the end of a quarter. Amy and I have a standing

Scott Moody sent this article about The Martun restaurant in Kaohsiung as an add-on to my post about the best toilets in this world. Even I found this a little hard

My summer “book a day diet” began with a chewy one. Fortunately it was short (a “bookette” – only 62 pages). John Kenneth Galbraith is 95 years old. So

We have a bunch of cool companies. One of my new favorites is Sling Media who makes the ultraspiffy Slingbox. My collegue Ryan McIntyre sits on their board and has a