Linkage

• Erik Spiekermann’s Typo Tips
  Should be in your toolbox.
• Commuter Files
  My boy, Z, and his take on, umm, life?
• The Visible Earth
  The best views aren’t always from down here. Try these from 200mi up.
• Top 30 Travel Books
  A solid list to start with… I’ll let you know when I get through them all.
• 42 ways to go trash-free
  From No Impact Man
• Gluten Free by Nature
  My sister Stephanie’s new website dedicated to gluten-free recipes.
• Flight Control (iTunes link)
  My favorite iPhone game
• Jude Healey Photography
  My wife’s gig
• The Tilley Hat
  I’ve got the Lighterweight LT6. My head thanks me.
• Turn down your A/C or heat
  Move your thermostat down 2° in winter and up 2° in summer

Recently around here

• AF447 and Airbus’ Side Sticks

  Wow. Not accusatory but certainly a conversation-starting article on the latest in the Air France 447 crash by The Telegraph. A pilot’s control in the Airbus, called Side Sticks, are the center of this story as the BEA calls for a potential redesign of the cockpit and instrumentation ahead of the final crash report to [...]

• Pebble

  This is one smart watch, and I want one. The success of Kickstarter is absolutely phenomenal, too. Pebble asked for $100,000—they’ve raised over $6 million!

• The Rebuilding Year

  This is why I love Roanoke lacrosse. Matt Burkhead wrote and produced this 33-minute video highlighting what was supposed to be a rebuilding year in 2011. After losing 15 seniors, five All-Americans (including their starting goalie), and two position players of the year at the end of the 2010 season, most lacrosse fans suspected that [...]

• Best Dog Ever

  R.I.P. Holly, 1998-2012. She was the best and we’ll always remember her incredibly human-like behavior and indelible love for men.

• Air France 447 Cockpit Voice Recording

  I somehow missed this a few weeks ago. Popular Mechanics has a detailed article analyzing the transcript of AF447′s cockpit voice recorder. It is chilling and incredible and horrifying and terribly sad. Bonin yields the controls, and Robert finally puts the nose down. The plane begins to regain speed. But it is still descending at [...]

• The Top 25 Photo Galleries of 2011

  A great collection of photos from the Twisted Sifter – the top galleries from 2011. Often the most popular posts on the site, the galleries not only take our readers around the world, but back in time as well. Some galleries even show us the farthest reaching points of the Cosmos and the thriving microscopic world [...]

• Full Blog Archive »