Most popular girls names by state from 1960 to 2012:

Graphic by Reuben Fischer-Baum via The Atlantic. See the Social Security office website for more baby name stats.

Scooter singing “Moves Like Jagger” is a little disturbing…but I think the penguins save it.

My newest website just went live last week. I think it’s pretty.

Check it out at http://www.litzsinger.org and give me your feedback.

I helped with a mural for a nursery this past weekend.

The mum-to-be is a high school science teacher. She wanted to feature famous scientists she admired, done in caricature style. The models are based on a variety of sources I found online.

From left to right: Copernicus (astronomer), Neil deGrasse Tyson (astro-physicist), Ada Byron King (also known as Ada Lovelace) (mathematician and possibly the first computer programmer), Albert Einstein (theoretical physicist), Sir Issac Newton (physicist), Charles Darwin (biologist/naturalist).

It is actually more of a painting than a mural, painted on four foot by five foot canvas (more portable than had we painted on the wall).

1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

—Douglas Adams