Monthly Archives: June 2017

And so it reiterates

In the last couple of years I’ve looked at thousands of webcomics. Sometimes I wish I’d kept a list of those whose first page is captioned “It begins” or “So it begins” or “And so it begins.”

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how (some) fireflies do it

Fireflies in Borneo have a wonderfully simple and distributed way of synchronizing their blinks. If I had the skill I’d make a screensaver of it. A couple of ways to play with the concept: I wouldn’t expect all bugs to … Continue reading

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