brilliant

wow. just wow.

via Resource Shelf: "This site offers you information on works of structural engineering, architecture or construction through time, history and from around the world. Our documentation begins at the time of the pyramids in Egypt and Roman construction, continues to Romanesque and Gothic churches and through to the Industrial Revolution all the way to today and beyond…"

(Yahoo Pipes and Python: another bit of craftsmanship to which I feel unequal)

(via information aesthetics)

just TRY to keep up with the marvelous Jon Udell… he's happy to help (start with The Principle of Indirection)

yup. A good use of 13:45 of your time, and I TOLD you so…

a general-purpose tool, this conversion/paraphrase thing (see http://labs.slate.com/articles/plain-english/ for more, ignoring the annoying illiteracy of "it's" unless you can convince yourself that it is itself PLAIN English now grumble grumble…)

my dear friend Daniel Heikalo's new venture

various bits of Latin revealed, a fascinating puzzle

"Besser kein rohes Fleisch essen!" indeed

Bruce Sterling is nothing if not prescient

delicious prospect, as yet unexplored

(just when I was getting a bit jaded with podcasting)