This Christmas, if you are the parent of a 10-17 year old kid, and you buy your kid an expensive gadget that isn’t the item shown above, say an mp3 player, or a video game console, or even another type of robot, then you will have missed out on an excellent chance to not suck […]

Flickr has a lot of sunset photographs. Too many, some would say. To build this graph I collected just a few of them, by searching for photos that have been tagged “Sunset”. I collected only 100 photos from the hundreds posted each day of the preceding 365 days, so that the photos are evenly distributed […]

APEX Electronics is a technology junksurplus yard, just a few minutes from my home in lovely Sun Valley. This past weekend, the southern california chapter of Dorkbot made a field trip up there. I always miss the Dorkbot events, because they happen on Saturday afternoons, when I’m teaching high school kids at Art Center. Fortunately, […]

I put up a new Whitney Music Box variation for the holiday. Happy Halloween!

If you‘ve been looking for a tutorial on how to make these kinds of annoying color effects in javascript, you’ve come to the right place, as I’ve written one. And here it is.

Beck’s The Information is the first CD in a long while that I’ve purchased. Because of all the extras, I consider the 10 bucks I spent on the actual CD well worth it, for a change. 1) The album is excellent, and covers a wide range of styles. The sound engineering, as always, is amazing. […]

I came home tonight to find my Whitney Music Box software toy got mentioned on digg, which increased my website traffic by a factor of 100. Way cool! Thankfully, my hosting provider (dreamhost) has been handling the increased load like a champ. No problems so far! Hey! If you’re one of those who have compared […]

If you’ve been here before, you may have noticed some changes in the look of the site. For Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I’ve turned my site pink. As you travel around the tubes of the interwebs, you will notice many other sites have as well. This is not only a good way to raise awareness […]