I was wondering if anyone has ever made a cyanotype or van dyke brown on a tile. And how I might do it. For the prep and such and to seal it. If anyone has any ideas please let me know. I have done both ......

Maybe Apple’s iPhone app review process is actually partially automated, because I can see no other good reason for having rejected the latest update of Tweetie (1.3) for objectionable content. The offending word (the F-bomb, in case you were wondering) would normally merit that kind of treatm...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/Apple_rejects_Twitter_client_for_dirty_words_on_Twitter'; Apple's just reached a whole new level of stupidity in App Store approval shenanigans: the Tweetie 1.3 update was just rejected for displaying "offensive language" in its Twitter trend search view. Right, not...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, Internet, Apple, Developer, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch Jonathan Zdziarski, who has appeared on this pages before for other iPhone-related hijinx, has written an open letter to Apple about the AMBER Alert iPhone app he's written. Apparently he's work...

Back in the late ’80s I bought a dedicated word processor. My main criterion at the time was something that seems silly now: I wanted printed output that would be indistinguishable from a typewriter. So I got a Brother WP-500, which featured a daisywheel printer. This enabled me to produce doc...

Click here to view the embedded video. I love this quirky little how-to clip, mostly because the audio doesn’t match up to the video, making poor Leila look like she needs her own mandated visit to the house of corrections. But I can relate to Leila and her message, and I’m willing to admit that...

Hugh Pickens writes "The US and the UK are trying to refurbish the aging W76 warheads that tip Trident missiles to prolong their life and ensure they are safe and reliable but plans have been put on hold because US scientists have forgotten how to manufacture a mysterious but very hazardous constitu...

Joe McKendrick's paraphrasing of James Governor's remarks about averting the subprime mortgage crisis and subsequent economic meltdown and his further commentary almost convince me that proper application of architecture and technology approaches could have saved the day and kept us from the...

Neo-Republicans are the angry CAT. The Obama Administration must clean the CAT BOX. The SHIT is the result of eight years of mismanagement and corruption and plain old greed. Now the CAT demonizes the scooper and bullies the cleaning methods … this makes no sense. It stinks! Neo-Republicans ar...

1987 Interview with Alan Moore about Watchmen Patriots re-signed starting safety James Sanders, punter Chris Hanson and reserve linebacker Eric Alexander. Veteran wide receiver Greg Lewis was traded by Philadelphia to New England for a draft pick Thursday. According to an NFL source, free agent Patr...