// Fiction

Spell-Checked Padding, pt. 3
by Seth Lavode
[Jan 14, 2010 | Comments]

Each assignment had called for a job, a new history, even a new personality. This time all we had to do was write and sell infotech, and be regular cool nerdy folk.

// Nonfiction

On My Own
by Amanda Peterka
[Nov 17, 2009 | Comments]

From the Archives (August 2008) – After a solo backpacking trip in New Zealand — capping off a six-week study abroad in Australia — coming home was harder than the original departure.

// Essay

You Come and Go, Michigan Stays With You
by Anna K. Jonsson
[Feb 2, 2010 | Comments]

I am a child of Michigan. I’ve lived here most of my life. I’ve lived all over the state. I’ve gone to Lake Michigan as much as I possibly could in summers, huddled near radiators during winters. Michigan air has a certain quality as the seasons change, deep and alive, humid and full.

// Photography

Photography, Memory, and Mental Models
by guest
[Jan 14, 2010 | Comments]

New research shows that when people look at objects in the world, they only visually take in, on average, 20% of the “visual information content” the object provides.

// Art

Coral Nebula #7
by Eric Stephenson
[Feb 2, 2010 | Comments]

A piece of digital artwork

// Poetry

Button Function
by Jason Leslie
[Feb 2, 2010 | Comments]

Reading the moment in tender fashion
Snapping the bean along the grid…

// Video

ThinBASIC Adventure Builder
by Philip Richmond
[Feb 2, 2010 | Comments]

ThinBASIC Adventure Builder (a.k.a. T.A.B.) is a new FREE adventure creator project for Windows 98/2000/ME/XP/Vista/7 currently at Alpha stage and being developed with the thinbasic scripting language.

// Audio

Jujitsu
by Carmina Lu
[Sep 14, 2009 | Comments]

A rumination on the things that can and cannot “be jujitsu-ed.”