Some of the best news you’ll read all week: shuttlecraft Galileo (NCC-1701/7) is being returned to its former glory—a “massive, ground-up + more
Some of the best news you’ll read all week: shuttlecraft Galileo (NCC-1701/7) is being returned to its former glory—a “massive, ground-up + more
Productivity, thy foe is the Amazing Fact Generator. While the degree of amazingness varies wildly*, it’s a lot of fun seeing + more
It’s easy to forget that some of the greatest works of fiction—Proust, Dostoevsky, Kafka—require the work of a translator to + more
Another gem from Lapham’s Quarterly, here’s a look at some of the worst jobs of the last 2,000 years—though, to + more
Asked whether market research breeds mediocrity, Wally Olins had this to say: “If you are going to create something that is + more
“Writing is your passion. Why not make it your day job, too?” Ugh. Writer’s Digest University is selling this load + more
Keith Houston has done a remarkable job in reducing the history of punctuation down to 530 words. Take a couple of + more
Spring seems (finally!) to have arrived in our neck of the woods. Regular readers of the blog know what that + more
A Russian billionaire (sure seems to be a lot of those lately) is building an army of cyborgs…while man-powered robotic + more
Victoria Ertelt, library administrator at Mount Angel Abbey, poses next to one of the Alvar Aalto chairs on display at + more
Bob Nixon, left, and Glenn Davis visited SPOMa over the weekend. Nixon, who served as a partner at both Walker & + more
It’s a pity the digital age has somewhat lessened the impact of album cover art. Storm Thorgerson, who died yesterday, + more
If this headline doesn’t reach out of your computer screen, grab you by the throat, and provide a vigorous demonstration + more