Today I’ve moved Krazydad from it’s old hosting provider, TotalChoice hosting, to DreamHost. The move has been pretty painless, but if you spot anything broken, let me know.
I’ve been using DreamHost for my other website, Coverpop, for a while now, and I like it much better. For about one quarter the price of [...]

Kool Scatcat sent me this photo of actual crop circles.
Apparently, in parts of the US, crops are actually grown in circles to optimize irrigation. There is a single sprinkler in the center of each one.
UPDATE: Craig Kaplan wrote me the following note

Jim,
I wanted to pass on a couple of notes regarding crop circles…
First, I [...]

There are lots of websites that contain collections of crop circles, and I’ve been using a handful of them.
Crop Circle Connector is a community-oriented site which contains an individual page or two for most recent circles. Visitors to the site can file “field reports”, so the site is full of anecdotal information.
These [...]

If you read this blog regularly, you know that a lot of the things I make involve circles. My fascination with circles and radial symmetry has extended to kaleidoscopes, fibonacci spirals, music, card tricks, spinning wheels of lunch, and so on.
You may also know that I am prone to develop short term [...]