Minneapolis CONvergence 2008! CONvergence starts now, Thursday 7/3, at the Sheraton in Bloomington MN! Following is a list of panels I'm participating in:

Wordle: Super Cool Word Art Give this tool a try. Wordle creates "word clouds" based on whatever you give it, and the results are surprisingly beautiful.

The Last Word in Star Wars ...is this guy:

U.S. Midwest Floods This past week the U.S. Midwest, particularly Wisconsin and Iowa, were hit hard by unprecedented floods.

Irresistible My favorite thing in the world as a kid was the Johnson Smith catalog, a one-stop home for bugs in ice cubes, rubber snakes, and switchblade combs.

Iron Man Casting: Marvel Universe Edition If you caught the Iron Man secret ending, you saw **SPOILER**

Simple Ideas With Transit Maps A good friend of mine recently gave me the book Transit Maps of the World, a gorgeous compendium of subway/rail/tube diagrams that has a lot to say about design.

iPhone Tech: Ever Forward, Sometimes Back? Got an iPhone. One of the first gen (discontinued) 4GB models, but still a device capable of triggering gadget-drool.

Worth Your Ears: The Seatbelts I've been suddenly, belatedly turned on to The Seatbelts, a Japanese jazz outfit active from 1998-2004.

New BigDog Robot Footage, Complete With Parody I'm a big fan of the creepy BigDog "robotic mule."