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Opting Out of Paper

Update: This is a very helpful reference, provided by the City of Santa Cruz. (via @jingleyfish on Twitter) This afternoon, as I did the customary, bi-monthly task of sorting through the giant pile of mail that resides on a table near our front door, I decided enough was enough. I’m done with paper-wasting. Done with [...]

Bad Code is Expensive

The city of Palo Alto recently launched a $240,000 redesign of cityofapaloalto.org. The response from the community has been less than enthusiastic: So far, with this website as a great example, we have managed to create a image of a city that could be aptly described by Gertrude Stein, when she said about another city, [...]

A Facelift

So things may look slightly different around here. I’ve made a few color adjustments and added a graphic title at the top. I had originally planned a larger change. But, well, that kind of time investment will have to wait a bit. Meanwhile, I think the current site still has a lot of life in [...]

A chilly place to live

According to the post on Digg, this is a Swiss town after an ice storm. Although living there day to day would probably be a huge hassle, I do think it would be awesome to be there and experience something like this. I’d probably do all kinds of experiments on the frozen cars with hot [...]