best baby costume ever.

Other Johnson transportation ideas do move increasingly, if not entirely, toward practicality, like the clever albeit cumbersome Bike Vest:

Steven M. Johnson Bike Vest

Stephen Johnson creates illustrations of really fabulous mock inventions. You really should click through and see more of them.

Why has no one told me about this band before? A Finnish Folk Metal band that mostly sings about drinking (see video), hunting and drinking?

Arg they even played at the DNA last Sat! And while I was already going ot M.Ward someone should have mentioned this.

The mockingbird has the remarkable ability to tell the difference between individual humans, regardless of the clothes they wear. After less than a minute, they can tell one person from another and adjust their responses according to the threat they pose to its nest. This ability suggests that these birds are both intelligent and very flexible in their behaviour – two traits that must surely stand them in good stead in the urban jungle.

It obviously benefits an animal to be able to distinguish between threatening and harmless species, but discriminating between individuals of the same species is a much more difficult task – just think about how difficult you would find it to tell the difference between two mockingbirds by eye.

Who said birds are dumb?

Oh my suddenly this is one of my favorite new webcomics!

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I’ll give the last word to Robert Bringhurst’s The Elements of Typographic Style:

2.1.4 Use a single word space between sentences

In the nineteenth century, which was a dark and inflationary age in typography and type design, many compositors were encouraged to stuff extra space between sentences. Generations of twentieth-century typists were then taught to do the same, by hitting the spacebar twice after every period. Your typing as well as your typesetting will benefit from unlearning this quaint Victorian habit. As a general rule, no more than a single space is required after a period, a colon or any other mark of punctuation. Larger spaces (e.g., en spaces) are themselves punctuation.