This site is not new, but it’s new to me. I was researching historical imagery for a client project and story about the Russian economy. As is often the case in web-trekking, I ended up following a different interesting path. I veered towards Berlin, Germany, and Checkpoint Charlie, which led me to this incredible site [...]

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GE has had this tool out for a while but we’re making an effort to share some important design tools with this blog. GE’s Imagination Cubed is still one of my favorite things to do with extra bandwidth. Similar to an online chat, you can invite others to draw on the same canvas from separate [...]

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Star Wars flash drives for the true geek in you! Princess Leia, she rules. But Luke Skywalker is pretty great, and everybody needs a Chewbakka! If yer buyin’ for Christmas, you’ll have to settle for a picture until January, as these babies are all pre-order.

If you need something right now, Mimoco has a whole [...]

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USA Today reported today that a Civil War Historian, John Richter, thinks he has found Lincoln in an incredibly small crowd shot shortly before his delivery of The Gettysburg Address. The power of the scanner is impressive. The dedication of the historian to comb through the details of it is even more impressive (and [...]

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I’m not a certified geek, or even pretend to know much about computers, but I do have severe design constraints on my everyday applications. Recently I’ve been obsessed with finding the best email app for my work style. I’m not into things being full-featured and all-encompassing (a la Adobe and Microsoft) as much [...]

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