So have you ever noticed that Koala Bears never seem to catch a cold?  Ever wonder why that is? That’s a pretty important thing to know now that we are in the winter cold and flu season.  Having recently recovered from the mother of all colds, and constantly hearing people hacking and sneezing during the [...]

  “You still have a television with knobs,” my friend Charley pointed out recently.  I could tell by his tone this wasn’t complimentary. “Well,” I replied evenly, maturely and defensively, “at least it’s simple and to the point.  When I pull the knob, the TV goes on.  There’s no complicated menu or delay.  Pull the [...]

Tree of Liberty:   A tree set up by the people, hung with flags and devices, and crowned with a cap of liberty.  The Americans of the United States planted poplars and other trees during the war of independence, “as symbols of growing freedom.”  The Jacobins in Paris planted their first tree of liberty in 1790.  [...]

One of the more interesting trees is the Joshua Tree.  It can be found in the southwestern United States and seems to thrive in the desert.  Young trees grow as much as three inches a year in this harsh environment for the first ten years of their lives. . The tree was quite useful to [...]

A fractal tree drawn just by one line becoming two, then each of those becoming two, over and over again PBS recently broadcast their Nova program about fractals, an amazing new branch of mathematics that helps us describe natural things like trees, mountains and clouds.  I’ve been fascinated with fractals since their discovery in the 1970′s  [...]

You’ll recall in last weeks newsletter (Do You Suffer From Supermedialturbationomacism) that we created that new word, a made up term for the confusion of going by your middle name, and speculated that the Google robots would probably pick up on it. Sure enough, they did.  Google is amazing — they don’t miss a thing.  [...]

WoodChips readers send in enthusiastic comments, and often create great WoodChips words in the process.  Typically, these are bad tree puns, and our official position on this is the more clever or the worse the pun is, the better. Reader Kevin of Kansas City is a Tree-ific example of this in his recent comment on [...]

This week’s cartoon is a great analog for many of the organizations that frustrate us.  You might have noticed Melanie’s thoughts in the newsletter Customer Comments section where she expresses total frustration with a large communication company that we will call ad&d.  I share her pain and have written about ad&d in a past post [...]