The Mushroom House. The Mushroom House in Whistler, Canada, is the result of 22 years of work by artist/creator Zube. “The interior design is based on the anatomy of a tree. All aspects of the dŽcor reflect this motif, from the womblike hues of the Jacuzzi room in the 'roots' to the vivid leaf greens […]

User Interface Hierarchies. Russell Beattie writes: I'm looking at user interfaces more recently. Online, on my desktop and on my gadgets and I'm taken aback by their complexity. But I've had an epiphany about their underlying structure that I wanted to try to express here. Is there a reason for the icons and the buttons […]

Useful. Via the chaotic etc, a description of what Panther's (OS X 10.3) text services are. This is the text handling stuff that is built in. TrŽs kewl…. [Vlog 2.1]

Geek Social Fallacies. Michael Suileabhain-Wilson identifies Five Geek Social Fallacies that are pertinent to smart mobs and virtual communities, as well as meatspace social circles. In fact, I wouldn't limit the scope of his argument to geeks. Nice writing, and thought-provoking. [Smart Mobs] [A blog doesn't need a clever name]

I am Tesla. Which historical madman were you? Which Historical Lunatic Are You?From the fecund loins of Rum and Monkey. Precisely. Tesla and… [Blog de Halavais]

Project Gutenberg hits 10k, events in San Francisco. In celebration of Project Gutenberg's 10,000th book release, founder Michael Hart and CEO Greg Newby are planning a series of events to commemorate the milestone. Starting tomorrow with a lecture at the Golden Gate Club and finishing up this week with an appearance on TechTV. Along with […]

Jellybath: surely space aliens are responsible [bOing bOing]

Did you feel it?. So I’m sitting in the library today when the shelves around me start to shake. And I’m thinking to myself: death by books? There must be better ways to go. 4.5 on the Richter scale. Not bad for Virginia. UPDATE: the Roanoke Times reports that this “was the strongest earthquake in […]

tibook is back, i tested it on my xmas present from my sister, which is firefly the complete series and it seems to be fixed.

the superdrive died last night, very entertaining.