overstated

My current design obsession: muscle car thugs. Yes, that’s a 1975 SS 454 hemi El Camino, and real person from Worcester.
And for those not in the know, the appliance of science is our weekly gig in cambridge.

Last night I was fortunate enough to catch a sneak preview of Hayao Miyazaki’s new animated movie Sprited Away (Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi), thanks to James Seo who obtained an original Japanese copy with English subtitles. Miyazaki was propelled into
the spotlight when his last movie, Princess Mononoke, was dubbed in English with a stellar [...]

Solar collectors may soon provide a cheaper alternative to costly laser surgury techniques. Costing only $1000 to build, these sun-powered prototypes transfer concentrated sunlight to the operating room via fiberoptic uplink. Of course with my luck my surgery would fall on a gloomy, overcast day. And it would be raining.

I broke down today and bought an analog weblog (also known as a “pocket notebook”). I’m just so bloody tired of losing the occasional ephemeral thought into the memetic ether. Now I have a cache.

Researchers at UCSB have recently found that cheater detection is an age-old cognitive system. Using a subject they call “R.M.” who has a cognitive disability to the part of his brain that decodes social and emotional signals, they found that this fellow performed much better in certain tests of honesty than others, showing that the [...]

Has anyone noticed that this site can take up to a minute to load? Or that blogdex is basically impossible to use between the hours of 10am and midnight EDT?
Hmmm… coincidence? I think not. I’m tired of people telling me that my web services suck, so it’s top priority at the moment. Hopefully overstated will [...]

I’ve made my final return to home base after 1.5 months of New York mayhem and two weeks of vacationing. It feels extremely good to be back in familiar environs, interacting with so many people that I’ve lost contact with during my away time. But most importantly, I’m really looking forward to some level of [...]

You may have heard about it on nickdenton.org…
You may have read about it in the New Yorker…
Now it’s time for my plug. I’ve already seen a behind-the-scenes look at the upcoming Eyebeam exhibition/workshop series “We Love New York,” and it was pretty exciting. If you’re in the New York area from August 8-24, stop by [...]

The words “vinyl culture” typically produce images of seventies furniture or overdressed club kids. A few designers have been redefining the term while pushing the envelope in the medium of action figures. In particular, Eric So and Michael Lau have been rolling out stylized icons for the subculturally aware.
At $100 a pop, only the jet [...]

Late last night, inspired by my favorite Pavement anthem, I traded some of my music gear to a friend for his skateboard, and hit the streets trying to regain a piece of my childhood. In the words of the great Stephen Malkmus:
Out on my skateboard the night is just hummin
and the gumsmacks are the pulse [...]