Today marks the first anniversary of the birth of Polish-born, Franco-American mathematician Benoรยฎt Mandelbrot since his death on October 14. Mandelbrot worked in a variety of mathematical disciplines, but is best known as the “Father of Fractal Geometry.” He was well eulogized by the New York Times, and, more personally, by Rudy Rucker. Today he would’ve been 86.
A reader who enjoyed Monday’s post about Ken Perlin’s astoundingly tiny screen font , but was disappointed to learn that the font was not available for use, wrote to point out Domenico Mazza’s “Zepto,” which is available for free over at MyFonts.com. Shown above is a comparison of Perlin’s Tiny Font to Zepto, with the same text, in the same screen area, at comparable size and density. You can see that Zepto isn’t quite as readable as Perlin’s font, but still does pretty well.
After seeing Linda of Natural Suburbia’s post on pomanders the other day, I got inspired to make some of my own. I decorated the bar at my sister’s birthday party with a martini glass filled with 4 pomanders: three lemon and one lime. Pictured above is one of my lemon pomanders. Cloves and citrus; smells […]
Keep your toes nice a cozy with a pair of snazzy felt slippers. Alisa Burke shows you how to make them with your stash of felt scraps. I think it’d be fun to have a craft night where everyone brings their felt scraps and whips up a pair together!
I love wrapping gifts — figuring out the right paper, choosing a ribbon — but often skip the card. Terrible, right? Well these simple gift tags from Patricia at A Little Hut might be the nudge I need to avoid the last-minute panic when I can’t remember which present is which! This is the first […]
We featured the meticulously-organized workshop that Milwaukeean Cindy Smith shares with her husband, Craig, back in March. Craig saw our recent human-powered lifting devices post and wrote in to share with us the custom snow-plow-tricycle he built for removing light snowfall from his driveway:
Autodesk has been giving away Inventor of the Month awards. The October award was given to a group of Stanford grad students. They designed the “Bloom laptop,” which is designed to be completely field-stripped in a couple of minutes for ease of recycling, without the use of tools. One side benefit of their design is […]
