“Everybody feels refreshed following a good night’s sleep. But can you wake up smarter? More artistic perhaps? German scientists say they have demonstrated for the first time that our sleeping brains continue working on problems that baffle us during the day, and the right answer may come more easily after eight hours of rest.”

“Designologue began as a means to pass the unemployed hours of Fall 2001. Originally called k.os Cricket (a nod to the original conspirator and an uninformed attempt to relate it to a similar sport Coudal’s Photoshop Tennis)…”

“Gapminder is a non-profit venture for development and provision of free software that visualise human development. This is done in collaboration with universities, UN organisations, public agencies and non-governmental organisations… It all started in 1998 from an idea to enhance the understanding of world health.”

“Would you like to display your own icon on the browser address bar when visitors view or bookmark your web page? The favicon feature makes it possible to brand address bars, bookmarks / favorites, and/or tabs with custom icons. The FavIcon from Pics makes it easier to create icons for your web pages. Simply select a picture, logo or other graphic (of any size/resolution) that you already have for the ‘Source Image’ and click ‘Generate FavIcon.ico.’”

“Last week, I released a CSS Style Switcher hack that lets visitors easily change the look of the standard WordPress install by swapping out the CSS stylesheet. This is a great first step, but it would be even better if there were a number of different styles out there for people to use. To this end, Iím sponsoring a CSS Style Competition for WordPress.”

“‘I went to a flea market, and there was a huge record collection there, at least 20 boxes,’ [Dori] Hadar said, recalling the morning of the discovery. “I was going through that very happily when I came across this box full of strange hand-painted album covers. I realized they were fake and was about to put them back, but then I looked at them more closely.’ Pulling the records out of the sleeves, he was surprised to find that they were made not of vinyl but of cardboard. Each had been cut in the shape of a record, with grooves and a hand-lettered label painted on. Nearly all the albums were credited to an unknown black musician named Mingering Mike, and dated from 1968 to 1976.”

“Thomas Jeffersonís intellectual curiosity drew him into an accelerating, three-hundred-year-old quest to find a water route to Asia. To understand Jeffersonís views of the West and the nature of the quest to the Pacific, the University of Virginia Library and the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation have put together an exhibition and book of maps and journals. Lewis and Clark: The Maps of Exploration 1507-1814 examines the planning of the Lewis and Clark Expedition and the cartographic tradition that made the expedition possible. The exhibition shows the evolving views of the American continent and the ‘Passage to the Indies’ as they appear in maps up to the Lewis and Clark Expedition.”

“That’s the title of a book I wrote. Guess what it’s about! It’s about how to make a complete map of every thought you think! But it has some other things in there; It talks about visual language, maps, computerized notebooks, theory of notebooks, yadda yadda yadda. I’m afraid it’s not really written well, but if you are interested in the topic of intelligence augmentation and notebooks, I think you’ll overlook it’s obvious flaws, for an enjoyable experience.”