The Design of Everything

Trajan is the Movie Font - Enough Already

February 8th, 2008

Classic, almost as ubiquitous as Helvetica when it comes to the movie industry.

How Big is Your Carbon Footprint?

January 30th, 2008

I got thinking about the our personal carbon footprint today after reading that Tom Cruise was to take delivery of a new Dukati cycle and reportedly spent $1 million on fuel over the last couple of years. Anyone who travels frequently for business or pleasure inherently has a much larger carbon footprint than the average person. And anyone who owns their own private plane, or spends time traveling on chartered jets, as many celebrities and business execs do, has got to have a monster footprint.

My Starbucks Smells Funny

January 29th, 2008

I’m a Starbucks addict, but ever sense they introduced those breakfast sandwiches the store smells funny. I like the sandwiches, but the smell generated by the ovens that cook them up isn’t really pleasant and flat out kills that great coffee smell you expect when you walk in the store.

Where to get RSS feed icons

January 29th, 2008

Good site with a couple snippets of code for layout. Colored RSS icons too.
www.feedicons.com

Don Davis Gives NASA Paintings to the Public

February 16th, 2007

Big Impact by Don Davis

Pioneer by Don Davis

Artist Don Davis has placed into the public domain paintings commissioned by NASA. The series of paintings stretching from the mid 1970’s to 1990’s show a look at both real and fictional space travel. Works include paintings of Voyager 2 and 4, as well as futuristic views of space colonies.

Don Davis on Wikipedia
View more paintings on Don Davis’ Site