Think you have a tough job? Join the military. Here is my new desktop, made from a photo of a jet engine at the March Reserve Air Force Base, Airfest 2088. The Airfest is a type-o-rama of warnings and designations. This one seemed like just what I needed during the last days of the CaliforniaAuthors […]

A day at the air show can leave you breathless, but too sun-drenched to blog — so we’ll have to let the picture do its thousand words. More on the March AFB Airfest 2008 to come — once we catch our breath.

We just saw a piece on the news about Jeff Deck, a guy who’s traveling around the country correcting misspellings, including misplaced apostrophes, in storefront signs. His route is plotted on the Typo Eradication Action League site.
Here’s his post from New Orleans; he’s in LA right now!
I’m glad someone took up the challenge to […]

Hooray! Robot-using dogs! [thx Laughing Squid]

… to xkcd — a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. It is geek-larious. You should read it! Here’s a sample (click the comics to see them full sized:
Kayak:

Writers’ Strike:

Lisp:

More: The Blog Fractal, Join MySpace, Ninja Turtles, Perspective, Regular Expressions.
Okay, what kind of geek are you?A laughing one? Yeah, me too.

… is that Futurama is in heavy rotation on Comedy Central. Obsessively watching it is great preparation for the series’ triumphant return! Read about it at wired.com. Thanks to a little YouTube bootleggery, here’s a canape for connoisseurs of geek comedy.

Whoa! Writer’s strike guilty pleasures update: American Gladiators returns tonight. P.S: Hey, they just promo-ed […]

Last night Val and I had a little Shrimp Remoulade and settled in to watch Helvetica, a stylish documentary about typography, culture and the influence of — and controversy surrounding — the Helvetica typeface, which turned 50 in 2007.
Yes, controversy. You see, in the world of graphic design, the ubiquitous typeface is a divider, […]