Here are a few of my favorite, representative, and/or popular blog posts.
Libraries & archives
- Whalers, sailors, and libraries at sea, part 1, part 2, and part 3, January 2012
- Impromptu iPhone book scanner, December 2011
- What I did this summer: Smithsonian Institution Archives internship, September 2011
- Project: Grandma’s letters, August 2011
- The future of marginalia, February 2011
- Books I read in 2011, 2010, and 2009
- More libraries, archives, and books »
Art history
- Art nouveau in We’re Back!: A Dinosaur’s Story, May 2009
- Art nouveau tour of Paris: Hector Guimard, May 2009
- Veiled lady, femme voilée, March 2009
- Aubrey Beardsley is bomb., May 2008
- More art history »
Fiction
- Overcast, April 2010
- Aperture, April 2010
- January, 2009
- For Now poems, November 2009
- More fiction (mostly older) »
User interface/experience
- 4 tips for a responsive, readable blog design, January 2012
- Time traveling in my web design past, March 2011
- More on UI/UX »
Tech
- Testing out the NLTK sentence tokenizer, February 2012
- The Setup, August 2011
- Photography Prophecy, March 2010
- Technoarchaeology, February 2010
- More on tech and the future »
Geography
- Map quilt of Providence, R.I., September 2011
- College Hill and Fox Point, Providence, R.I., 1875 vs. 2011, March 2011
- San Francisco then & now, February 2011
- California’s Bear Flag, August 2010
- More maps and history »
Silly
- For the birds, April 2010
- Neighbor Cat and the Adventures of Bad Manners, February 2010
- Letter to Glencoe/McGraw-Hill from 13-yr-old me, September 2009
- More droll »
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