Polenta, Easy and Delicious Food

Polenta is so easy to make, and is delicious.  YUM!!!  It’s made of corn, you cut it into slices and cook it/fry it in a pan with oil.  Takes a few seconds/minutes. Serve polenta with salmon, with pasta and veggies for dinner, with eggs and bacon and spinach for a nice breakfast, etc.  Refreshing, satisfying, [...]

The Most Relaxing Music Ever: Mr. Fingers “Children at Play”

Mr. Fingers–Children at Play
Mr. Fingers, a.k.a. Larry Heard, makes the most relaxing music ever–tied with Lonnie Liston Smith. Mr. Fingers and Lonnie Liston Smith just about epitomize the term downtempo–music for relaxing, lounging and astral traveling.

Japanese Design Motifs for Artistic and Design Inspiration

This is simply a great book for artistic and design inspiration.  You know MC Escher had to be all over these Japanese patterns.  So many permutations and ideas, such fine detail, yet abstracted and minimalist–logos of their time, family crests.

Cold War Kids — Hospital Beds

I was initially subconsciously biased against the Cold War Kids, without ever having heard their music, because of their name (any band with the word ‘kids” in their name automatically sounds too hipster-y too me) and because of their blog hype (the worst combination of the two factors to me would [...]

Starlight Information Visualisation System

This is so cool.  I want to play with the Starlight Information Visualization system…makes data analysis look like a video game.  I think I saw an episode of that show Numbers once and they used all these investigative and analysis techniques that were somewhat similar to what Starlight can do.

Reshaping Education in America: Careers and Context

I think what is shockingly absent from any education I’ve ever received, from some fine educational institutions, is any mention of careers and context–why you’re learning, what live after school will look like, the fact that you’ll have to find a job, what kinds of jobs and careers are out there, etc.  Schools leave that [...]

Shepard Fairey Sued By AP for Obama Image

Okay…I’m not even going to comment on this now…here’s an article on it and a ton of comments on the Huffington Post…I’ll just say, wow, I can’t believe so many people think the images are quite different–they look nearly identical to me, one is just painted, the other is a photograph.  And wow, if a [...]