This is Tom Creighton's ongoing journal and information clearinghouse.

Little known fact: Will Smith and Carlton created the ‘Jump on It’ dance. WHAT’S UP HOUSTON, WHAT’S UP?

Design is the reification of creativity.

HP tells me to TRUST Original HP Toner. Shall I also stick my fingers in my ears and go ‘la la la la’?

The e-mail client gene pool is pretty shallow. 2009 Thunderbird is just 1994 Outlook Express with a slapdash coat of paint.

Twitter encourages brevity.

When life gives you lemons, squeeze them right into life’s eyes. Nobody wants your stupid lemons, LIFE.

I’ve had it with these monkey-patching snakes on this monkey-patching plane!

The increasing use of hand-drawn type and illustration on the web is refreshing. The web needs more eraser marks and scribbly parts.

When did the hipster crowd and the mall art crowd begin to like the same things?

I’d be happier about paying for car insurance if my policy simply said:
(A) Things You Can Do: Drive Around
(B) Things You Can’t Do: Crash

Some time in the mid-60s, Sugar Bear turned from bright-eyed right-stuff cereal mascot to subversive bohemian.

Sudoku is boring because it’s solvable by mechanical heuristics. There is no creativity involved.