I started admiring the work of David Stone Martin browsing through jazz singer albums at Footlight Records when I lived in the East Village. In the years since, I've searched for his name on google, and it seems like suddenly I can find more of his...

For my high-sugar procrastination fodder, I'm enjoying the blog Cake Wrecks. It's hard to believe there are enough grocery store bakery cake failures to fill a daily blog, but here's the evidence. They've even put the best of the mutant animals and...

Maybe so, maybe not, but information design can really influence the way we look at things - like comparing the carbon paw print of fido to that of an suv in the above example. The blog, Information is Beautiful goes in depth on the subject of charts...

Someday I want to go to Pittsburgh and eat a sandwich at Primanti Brothers. I like a sandwich with slaw on it. Sometimes my job makes me hungry. 

Which is to say, I'm blown away by the beauty and cleverness of his words and amazed at the number of popular songs he penned. This year is the centennial of his birth (November 18, 1909) and so there have been many tributes and opportunities to...