Faster Cars and Smellier Air

I’ve started a new science webcomic called Sandals. I will try to post new installments 4 to 5 times a month.

I just happened to have the application icons for Adobe Reader and Sun’s NetBeans side-by-side on my Dock. It occurred to me that they appear to fit together.

Coincidence?

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

This article about the historical St. Patrick may be a repeat for some of you, but it’s both an oldie and a goodie.

I wrote a short computer program to generate a tiny snapshot of the structure of a text document, and used it to make a quiz.

I’ve always wondered about the significance of those little numbers on the caps of drawing pens. Were they tenths of a millimeter of line thickness? Tip diameter? What?

I finally broke down and wrote the company. The awful truth: just like Newman revealed about zip codes on Seinfeld: They’re meaningless!

I readily concede that I’m not entirely objective on this, but Balloonist v1.0 has been released, and it is keen.