This is fantastic. Strangers, asked to touch one another for a photograph. The photography itself is excellent, and the subjects are too. It's touching.

Just like it says.

Photographs stretching back to 2004. There are some wonderful shots here.

A fantastic blog on Japanese language, literature, and culture. I revel in this. (And this is what a blog should be — written only so often, and every post is high-quality. Comments are few and long and educated and of very high quality themselves.)

Ten characteristics of creative people. (Basically, they're a beautiful mess of contradictions.)

Why privacy persists. "Along with new visibilities comes social understanding of those new visibilities." "If the end of privacy comes about, it's because we misunderstand the current changes as the end of privacy, and make the mistake of encoding this misunderstanding into technology. It's not the end of privacy because of these new visibilities, but it may be the end of privacy because it looks like the end of privacy because of these new visibilities."

"Dolphins can swim and sleep at the same time." Refresh until you die. Looking through these, though, I recommend a grain of salt with each serving. These are the Snapple caps of the internet.

Did you know? Fifth of nine children, owns a bunch of baseball teams, and has no agent, no business manager, no lawyer. He also travels without an entourage and has a temper. Yay, celebrities!

Cute video, good message.

"Scenius is like genius, only embedded in a scene rather than in genes. Brian Eno suggested the word to convey the extreme creativity that groups, places or 'scenes' can occasionally generate."

On the "cognitive surplus" we're going through, and how interesting and valuable all this new engagement and experimentation with technology is.

"Almost fifteen years after my mandatory military duty ended, I went back to several Israeli army bases, using the medium of photography as a vehicle to re-enter this world."

It's all right to hate sports and food, but music a whole different animal. Probably a wolf, these days.

What to do if you're robbed.

Excellent and impressively expansive studies of the human form in space, lead, terra cotta, steel... The "Fields" and "Quantum Clouds" projects are a good place to start, but you could spend hours here.

"desire paths... the imprints of 'foot anarchists', individuals who had trodden their own routes into the landscape, regardless of the intentions of government, planners and engineers..."

Christopher Fahey on the cycles of adoption and adaptation that determine how we interact with technology and media. Maybe we'll all be okay after all.

Interview with a man afflicted with Body Integrity Identity Disorder who took care of the problem by staging an accident and amputating his right hand.

An interesting personal homepage.

Okay, seriously, I can tear out the page of my journal with sketches for this idea from last year. ;-) An awesome idea, though.

"Throw down a challenge." The articles bullet-points the book's suggested tactics.

A greeter at the airport who welcomes and well-wishes operatically, he says to fantastic results. Pretty cool, but your suspicions will be confirmed at the end of the video. Very nice.

Christopher Fahey lays out his. A by good set of commandments for happily and successfully working in design.

"These are things I find abandoned in books or stuffed on the book cart at the jail where I volunteer."

Customer service done right.

A superb guide for anyone proposing ideas to clients who challenge you in potentially frustrating ways.

Yet another social network, this one targeted to the 50+ crowd. Best feature: "The Obituary section includes notable deaths and additional features like deaths near your location 'all tastefully wrapped in funeral home, medicare and Netflix advertising.'"

People like Bill Gates who can truly understand the horror of millions of people suffering will save us. "Perhaps we should avoid leaders who 'feel your pain,' because their feelings will crap out at, you know, eight people."

Truly amazing.