Category Archives: environment

Today’s Readings

Okay, I know this has been around for a little while, but 3D printers still just blow my mind… I am pretty ignorant when it comes to design. As such, I had never heard of Hillman Curtis, sadly, until reading … Continue reading

Today’s Readings

Let’s start this one off without a bang… As in, no explosion, no combustion, just air, powering a car… Not perfect, but a darned-site better than the puffs of exhaust coming out of cars, vans and trucks currently! For some … Continue reading

Today’s Readings

From National Geographic, comes the Public Profiler, an interactive world map of surnames. Where do you have family? Was surprised to see “Grogg” so prominent in Switzerland… A great-looking product from Adobe, Adobe Nav, let’s you use your iPad as … Continue reading

Global Warming, Coming to Continent Near You

Care at all about what’s going on with our planet?  I just watched an interesting, if not completely and thoroughly depressing, Charlie Rose interview with Bill McKibben, author of many, many books about the environment, including Eaarth. Bill had much … Continue reading

Today’s Readings

A nice CSS3 article from Brothercake showing how to (subtlety) apply text-shadow for a slightly embossed effect.  Now, note, I am not talking about the old-school drop shadow we all hate, that looks like your browser is having a seizure.  … Continue reading