New Neighbor

John Maeda (author of TAP TYPE WRITE and other REACTIVE BOOKS) jumps from MIT's Media Lab to be the next president of RISD.

What Providence Needs

A Cafe Scientifique... This is the sort of thing that would rock at Blue State Coffee. Hmm. Ideas? Email me.

Step Right Up!

You Must Be This Tall is a new documentary about an old Rhode Island favorite, the now-defunct amusement park at Rocky Point.

And just in case you got to thinking Rhode Island weather was always as clear and beautiful as it has been lately, the movie website has a wonderful photo archive including lots of pictures of the park on bog-standard overcast Rhode Island days.