Paris is burning

?Paris is carried out, Miami is achieved,? He said. ? St. Pete is huge open.? T…

Reader question: Are my counters giving me a headache?

Help! A couple days ago on our neighborhood news channel, they become talking a…

Are my counters giving me a headache? Part two: radon and granite

Yesterday, I devoted numerous space to answering a reader query approximately s…

Oggi Sciopero!

The free and unfettered flow of information on the Internet is under attack in …

No sale!

If I were Liz Taylor in Butterfield 8 I'd write that in lipstick on the cor…

No doubts about Doubt

I went to see John Patrick Shanley's Doubt at the American Stage in St.…

Twitter really is worth something. Really.

I had been the usage of Twitter for approximately two months now and in spite o…

"Our Perception of Color" as seen in Decorati

Decorati , if you don't know, is a brilliant online design magazine and …

Here's a great optical illusion for a Friday

The great (and funny) astronomer Phil Plait ran this on his blog, Bad Astronom…

Apartment Therapy makes my head hurt

It's Saturday and I'm feelin' the need to pontificate. Against my b…

SketchUp updates

Lord knows I love me some Google SketchUp . Every time I turn around it seem…

Let's keep Labor in Labor Day

And by that I suggest an appreciation for labor, both the prepared and the casu…

And the winner of the 2009 James Dyson Award is...

Many thanks for Saxon Henry, the Chair Chick , for alerting me to this yeste…

The brilliant Richard Wiseman strikes again

Richard Wiseman is a former magician and now Psychology Professor at the Univer…

The Science of Showering

Paul requested me to jot down about a cutting-edge wave of hysteria over an inf…

Granite counters have been proved to be safe. Again.

Toward the end of July 2008, The New York Times ran an article in its Home and…

A couple more illusions for Kelly

The delightful Kelly James from Design Ties is recuperating from knee surge…

Bring me a Power Mat

An increasingly vital attention I need to take after I'm setting together a…

This year's flu and you; a public service announcement

2009 to 2010 promises to be a particularly tough flu season. I can't imagin…

Tape LED lighting has arrived

Actually, it's been round for a touch whilst however I'm the usage of i…