Pacer Image via Wikipedia I spend entirely too much time these days at The Truth About Cars. It's partially my MI/IN auto-town nostalgia coupled with a need to forecast the outlook for the the local eighty-seven-year-old's pension checks from GM and Chrysler. A post today encouraged readers to list ...

The other day I learnt from my brother that the graphic design company The Designers Republic went out of business earlier this month. My interest in graphic design is not particularly heavy. But the interest I do have in it has all stemmed from my exposure to the work of The Designers Republic. The...

[Eric Archer] constructed an analog computer to model the physics of a bouncing ball. The core is a TL074 opamp that does all the integral math. He had no trouble finding descriptions of analog computers, but how to set the initial conditions was rarely covered. The controls include potentiometers t...

Efter att fullt rättmätigt ha blivit hyllad från alla upptänkliga håll för den häpnadsväckande debuten Handwriting försvann Connor Kirby-Long nästan lika fort som han dykt upp bort från rampljuset både bakom plyschiga djurmasker och genom mer eller mindre märkliga och ofokuserade livefr...

Posting has been sparse — I've been busy, busy, busy at Ye Olde Shoppe Of Employment[e] and engaging in family-related matters and thus have had precious little time for blog-related silliness. I haven't been so busy as to miss out on some of the excellent entertainment the Internet ...