It’s the 50th Anniversary Year of LEGO and there’s been a lot of great coverage on Gizmodo.
I used to play with Legos almost exclusively when I was a kid. I had the Space sets and various second-hand assortments of generic bricks. My favorite pieces were the little four-way maneuvering thruster [...]

I spend as much time dissecting and analyzing other peoples’ work as I do writing. I’ve always been into taking things apart and figuring out how they tick. This started with the Commodore 64 I had when I was a kid. It wasn’t enough to play the games — I loved [...]

Knicknacks: It has been hot here in LA, hotter than it was in NYC. You know what helps the heat? A Snickers Ice Cream Cake. These are meatloaf-sized Snickers ice cream bars with a cake-like granular matter embedded inside. Perfectly sized for a family of four or for one sumo [...]

I was in NYC doing a workshop so I spent most of the time in the studio. We used a room at Tisch, which was conveniently located across the street from a McDonalds. You know that I’m a junk food junkie. McDonalds breakfast food is some of my favorite breakfast food [...]

I just got back from New York City. I have a few tales to tell — this is part one.

I took Virgin America this time. A couple of neat differences are the entertainment system (with some pretty great touchscreen games), fairly comfy seats, and the fact that you can use your touchscreen [...]