There are myriad dedicated apps for doing this that have more bells and whistles—reminders to drink, calculations of required daily intake, etc.—but every single one I’ve encountered is a ...

See also Art Space and The one where I finally find a way to hang my collection of ephemera on the wall… ...

There’s a particular kind of guilt that visits me when I open my feed reader after a few days away. It’s not the guilt of having done something wrong, exactly. It’s more like the feeling of walking ...

Via University of Winds, a link to Open Infrastructure Map, useful here on Prince Edward Island for seeing a map of Maritime Electric and Summerside’s electricity infrastructure.

If there’s a lesson about getting on in prison it’s that everywhere there are human communities that don’t rest on authority and coercion and that people form their own neworks of mutual support.

Dr. Glendenning died this week. On the spectrum of thoughts about how we educate our children (and ourselves), there was no one I was more aligned with. And there was no person who had more lasting ...

From this week’s University of Winds: On Friday, an especially timely video from Technology Connections was published on YouTube: You are being misled about ...

I received the sad news this morning that my friend Allan Rankin has died. I was introduced to Allan many years ago: he and Roy Johnstone and I got together to see about having me make websites for ...

Nikita Prokopov, in their People and Blogs interview from last week: I don’t blog often, so it’s the worst: you come back to your blog once every few months, completely without context, and you need ...

There’s a reason they are the eternal bane of computer users. It’s because, in most systems, they are the bridge between the digital and the physical: the place where a stream of symbols collides with ...

Our friends Mike and Jessica, owners of The Gallery, the coffee shop around the corner from our house, were closed for a few weeks this winter for renovations. Because we had some experience using a ...

Nolan Lawson, in We mourn our craft: Someday years from now we will look back on the era when we were the last generation to code by hand. We’ll laugh and explain to our grandkids how silly it was ...