Cool! Here’s a podcast interview with my old friend Logan Hicks, who is having an incredible career as a stencil artist.
Once I hit on a tiger, of course, it was great—cats and I have a certain rapport, so this was a very natural fit for me. Maybe Hobbes could have been some other animal, but he arrived as a big cat, and that expanded my connection with him. Hobbes was as much my alter-ego as Calvin was.
Bill Watterson gave a rare interview as part of a career retrospective, and apparently it’s only available in bound print. The The Washington Post has a brief excerpt, though.
After sixteen years, Matt Haughey steps back from Metafilter. It’s one of the original content aggregators from Back In The Day, and though I don’t visit or participate as much as I used to, it’s still a valuable go-to site for interesting stuff. Many have learned from how Haughey developed his community, which has always been a model of polite, informative, inspirational, and human discourse. Also, site finances have improved, meaning it’s not going anywhere. Good news all the way around.
The FCC just granted itself the power to defeat a raging, fire-breathing monster: the monopolistic network owners who can kill Internet freedom by blocking websites — or by creating an Internet fast lane for the privileged, few, rich tech companies that can pay for it.
via CNN.
Over the last week, my iPhone has dropped about 10 calls, some multiple times. It was getting pretty fucking old. This set of instructions is supposed to fix the problem, which they blame on VoLTE not being fully rolled out. We’ll see how it works.
Huh, I didn’t know this was a thing: National Adjunct Walkout Day. And I taught today too.
How did I not know about this before? LEGO offers free Digital Designer Virtual Building Software. I’ll definitely be grabbing this tonight.
So it looks like Radio Shack is being put out to pasture.
On the way down, turning the stores into a chain of cell-phone kiosks staffed by hucksters alienated the DIYers.
This. One of my very first DIY projects was building my own speakers. I started with a Radio Shack-published book and a handful of parts from the local store. The last time I was in a store, the total parts selection was half a rack and the salesperson kept pressuring me to buy a cellphone.
So the Cooper Hewitt museum just rebranded and re-opened (“the only museum in the nation devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design”), and released a typeface by Pentagram as a free, open-source file for download. Nice.