Brugge Blog

It isn’t easy writing down what you believe, to commit to words the feelings you hold, either strongly or vaguely, but at least privately. Words may not be the best instrument, but they’re what most of us can use, and they give you boundaries to work within. And I think that what a lot of […]

There are plenty of map projections that show the world on a piece of paper, but when you apply scaling measures that aren’t geographic, you get something very different. You get Worldmapper.
The maps there are powerful. Newspaper stories with tables of numbers or even bar graphs of measures such as wealth or disease are […]

It was just a year ago that the family cabin started to change. In 30 years, it has had lots of tweaks to its inside, but they’ve been relatively small. Not fancy, but a place that has the well-worn comfort of familiarity.

Now the clan has grown in size, and when we all want to be […]

Dilbert is a great cartoon, and so is This Modern World, but they’re short and/or infrequent, and constrained to their world. I know that writing witty pearls on a regular deadline is a merciless taskmaster, and with spinoffs and other projects of a successful cartoon, I can imagine the cartoonist’s day as a very full […]

Eunice Shriver, founder of the Special Olympics, turned 85 last week, and as it should, it made the news. The centerpiece of the coverage was a White House dinner in her honor. Not surprisingly, she gave a very eloquent invitation and challenge to us all. (excerpt from PBS):

Let us not forget that we have miles […]

I always find it fun to learn about the passions of techy geeks that are outside of the technical world, especially when they reveal an artistic passion that’s been given its freedom.
Don Knuth, for example, has a permanent spot in the computer science Hall of Fame, but he also put together a remarkable book […]