• Bëspoke – An artisanal bakery made entirely of reclaimed Herman Miller office furniture.
• Dank – A speakeasy in the basement of Bëspoke. You’ve probably never heard of it.
• SaaS – Sandwich As A Service. Soggy, day-old sub sandwiches, delivered right to your door. They might even get there on the day you requested.
• TurnkeyDesignTalks.io – Speaking at a design conference? Don’t know what to say? Feel an uncontrollable rage any time you see bad kerning? TDT.io has your back.
• Kevin.webcam – All intern, all the time.
• The Basic Podcast – A weekly panel discussion around the Starbucks drink of the week, and how it relates to Taylor Swift’s next album. The hosts literally can’t even.
• MyChemicalPoetry.tumblr.com – A weblog for short-form prose, written exclusively by teenagers whose parents “just don’t understand”.

I’ve spent a lot of time over the past few weeks looking at new vehicles (mine is about to bite the dust), and one thing is a constant: nearly every single one has a terrible in-dash system for entertainment and navigation. After chewing it over for a couple days, here’s a short list of things that suck about cars: Continue reading →

I, like thousands of others, saw The Dark Knight Rises at midnight on release day. While I thought the film was great, one scene really bothered me: at the climax of the movie, Batman straps a nuclear bomb to his helicopter and flies it out to sea in an attempt to save Gotham City. I decided to do some math on whether or not the climax of the movie was actually plausible. Continue reading →