A variety of articles I wrote about things I find interesting. With any luck you may find them interesting too!
Other worlds than ours
A 19th century take on Exobiology
A sense of wonder
Some “Wow!” moments from my life around computers
Small Blue Planet
The impact of Apollo 8 on our planetary self-image
My take on the Marble Run concept
Fun to build, fun to play with!
You did WHAT on a Commodore 64?!
Oh, yes, I sure did.
Building a Roubo Workbench
A woodworker’s rite of passage
The Fractal Bug
A fascination – and a free fractal generator
Real Bookmarks from True Favorites
Vignettes of some cherished bookstores
A medley of Homebrew Projects
Nostalgia from a wonderful hobby
The perceptive art of Giuseppe Novello
Little known, but well worth knowing
Growing up in Electronics
A wonderful hobby, on a shoestring
Humanity’s victory over rust!
A personal history of stainless cutlery
Heroes and Barbarians
Propaganda postcards from the Great War
Oh, no! Can Tesseract save the plane?
A rare action comic for the ultimate geek
The real thing, in cross-section
How to teach what makes things tick
Victorian Virtual Reality
Mesdag’s Panorama
A homebrew Single Sideband transmitter
A photo-essay for ham radio geeks
It’s a wonderful Life!
Conway’s Game of Life — and a Freeware implementation
Illustrated Natural Philosophy
The charm of 19th century scientific illustrations
Cloning a Vibroplex bug
Another triumph of improvisation!
Yiddish radio geeks of a bygone world
A glimpse of Warsaw’s radio amateurs in 1926
The Why and How of HOC collecting
Computer History as a hobby
Prey to Oblivion
Everyday things that no one would recognize today
A visiting card
A tiny memento from the past
Ingenious simplicity
Everyday objects of elegant design
A virtual Cabinet of Curiosities
Interesting, or curious, or just lovely