Category Archives: Geek

As if we needed another reason to love Yelp….

What a lovely fail to wake up to in my inbox… To be perfectly clear, when I contacted the staff at SF Women Against Rape to let them know about what they were have purported to have spons......

Prop 8 upheld… but can it be enforced?

In today’s decision to uphold Proposition 8, the California Supreme Court justices were just doing their job. I can’t fault them, as they were working within the boundaries of the le......

Car rollovers, laundry and sustainability, oh my!

I came across this gem that plays like a 1970s British mashup of Mythbusters and How Things Work when, for some reason, I was looking for info on how washing machines work today. And although i......

Random thought…

How drastically would the world change were comic sans to disappear from the face of the earth tomorrow?

Bringing science to the world, and the world to science

A note to those developing websites based on databases of scientific information aimed at engaging the public: enough with the acronyms. Unless the acronym spells out something easily recalled......

Fireworks won’t start anymore? It probably doesn’t like your fonts.

The other day I was going to create a new mockup, but when I launched Adobe Fireworks, it kept crashing after 30 seconds of the ‘loading’ pane.  Would a reboot fix it?  No such luck.......

I know your mother’s maiden name…

While wandering around the interwebs this morning, I came across an interesting link to a relative’s family history. Actually, the facts were nothing new to me, as it was simply a list of ......

Me Do My Myself: renegade baking, creativity, and Fashioning Technology

I had my first renegade baking experience was when I was 4.  My mom was outside working in the garden, and my friend and I decided that we wanted to ‘bake’ for the first time.  Unfor......

Proposition 8: Unfair. Discriminatory. Un-American.

California Proposition 8 is a statewide ballot initiative entitled Eliminates Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry. Eliminates Right. Unequally eliminating rights for some individuals is the prec......

Powered by Microsoft? Ford must really be in trouble.

Yup, there are all of the old jokes: If Microsoft built your car, your car would crash randomly three times a day while you were driving down the road… and every time you made a left turn. or If......