kottke.org is ten years old today Great retrospective style post, including screen shots of previous versions, to mark the tenth anniversary of kottke.org That makes kottke.org one of a handful of the longest continually updated weblogs on the web...something to be proud of, I guess. Grrr, if only I'd kept softcopies of my earlier journal entries...

Lego Celebrates 50 Years of Building Hot on the heels of the Helvetica font's half century, another classic cultural icon celebrates its 50th birthday this year, none other than Lego building bricks. It was at 1:58 p.m. on January 28, 1958, that then-Lego head Godtfred Kirk Christiansen filed a patent for the iconic plastic brick with its stud-and-hole design. Since then, the company has made a staggering 400 billion ... Read full entry