When I think of the places I would like to live, they are often places where the design emerged from the bottom-up instead of places that were subject to top-down urban planning. Places like SoHo, NY or the Marais, Paris epitomize the beauty of bottom-up design. Top-down design often results in ugly, artificial [...]

Penny Arcade has a great post up that explains the origins of the hit web comic (scroll down to the post “I’d like to thank God…”).
Apparently Tycho and Gabe were rebuffed Next Generation after Next Generation called out to their readers looking for people to write a comic about gaming. Next Generation [...]