Ghostweather R&D Blog

What do you do when you're stressed? You can pay to throw things, at Sarah's SmashShack in San Diego. Sarah's site says you ca...

Now that the Create the Future Design Contest is open and collecting entries, it's time to point out some of the reasons I love this co...

One of the excellent presentation's at SolidWorks World 2008 was the keynote by Theo Jansen , maker of strange tube sculpture creatures ...

It's been a tough week - minor road accidents in snow, encounters with consultants that earn $2500 for a few hours of phone time [I don...

I caught up on the latest print version of Fast Company on a flight, and I have to admit I'm loving it via print. I read almost ever w...

I've been busy on non-work related activities, for once! Owls: Saw-whet migration is upon us. The local birders with Mass Audubon we...

I've always liked random poetry generators (I could dig up some of my favorites, but I'll save it for another day) -- so I wrote one...

Random personality tests of recent discovery: tests that rely only on visuals. Or, kind of. This first one is "psychogeometrics....

Thank goodness, just when I was dreading starting my post about strategy and tactics, Pavel Curtis gave me a good excuse to avoid it: he...

I've been playing with 2 fractal-generating applications recently, and recommend them for different reasons. If you'd like to quick...

I've been looking at online generators for the last few days (a recurrent interest) and was reminded of these pretty visual ones. Worth...

Last weekend was an "owl festival" at my local Audubon nature preserve. First was a great presentation on snowy owls at Logan Air...

It's an exciting world right now... i-Stuff and the spread of "design" as a buzzword aside, I'm thrilled by the spread of ...

I don't have time to do real stats on my server logs, but I offer the annual impressionistic ones, at least, as well as some updates on ...

Malcolm Gladwell wrote a great piece in the New Yorker: OPEN SECRETS: Enron, intelligence, and the perils of too much information . It'...

There are personality quizzes all over the net, spread as memes via sites like LiveJournal where memes have a long life. PersonalDNA is a ...

Endicott Studio is celebrating Poetry Month nicely with a new illustrated poem every day. If you like fairy tales and poetry, this is the ...

This is one of those brilliant and simple ideas, that also happens to be funny. A USB device that "fills up" visibly until it...

I don't know if 3 people count as meme-spreaders, but I got the Snapshirt blog cloud link off Jeff Mather who got it off someone else....

Fantastic post here: Mixing Memory: The Intellectual Teeth of the Mind . Chris is writing about the Illusion of Explanatory Depth, a cognit...