by David | Apr 13, 2013 | culture, design, eating, science!, urbanism
On Highland Avenue in Somerville, Boldly serving up breakfast all day where no man has gone before.
by David | Mar 16, 2013 | urbanism
So Thursday was Pi Day. You know, because 3/14 looks like π which is 3.14 and more. We’ve been over much of this before. But this Pi Day I decided that I should visit Boston’s Pi Alley at 1:59pm because that would be 3/14 1:59. Yeah, slow news day, I...
by David | Apr 15, 2012 | design, reading & writing, technology
Kindle or Nook? Nook or Kindle? I was pondering a gift for an aunt, looking at ebook readers and tablets and reading apps and I noticed something odd. The Kindle, unlike the Nook and Google reader, doesn’t let you change the text justification of your ebook....
by David | Apr 8, 2012 | design
I like Scrabble, I like the Oxford comma, and I like typography. So why does the a new Scrabble set for Typographers (or at least people who like type) have me so out of sorts? For those not hep enough to know, Typographer’s Scrabble is a redesigned Scrabble...
by David | Feb 11, 2008 | media
I was sitting in class, having completed an exercise a little early, and this doodle appeared, more or less unbidden, under my mouse. Cold and hungry, I guess. Notice what’s happening with the “ffl” in “waffles” That’s a typographic...