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"ClearRx is a trademark for a design for prescription drug packaging, designed by design student Deborah Adler as a thesis project and adopted by Target Corporation (with refinements by industrial designer Klaus Rosburg) for use in their in-store pharmacies." Very well done.

Typically disinterested in the tourism of Maine's lobster festival, DFW gives a great history of the lobster. The bulk of the article, most interestingly, is dedicated to the ethics of boiling a living creature alive (or otherwise killing it) in order to eat it.

Interesting, though I do not totally agree. (Is Christianity not itself a tribe? An ideological one, at least, if not geographically contiguous.) There is the same food for thought here that I've been chewing on for years... it is a conundrum I cannot reconcile.

"'I thought I'd host an end of the world party, but the media might take it seriously.' —Stephen Hawking, reassuring that world was not due to end with the launch of the Large Hadron Collider."

God these are good.

Good rundown of some great and not-so-great logo redesigns in 2008.

A nicely designed list of the words of the year. Seems like half are from the election. Can't say I've ever heard of a "fish pedicure," but there it is.

Good story, personal writing from one of the more entertaining and interesting blogs out there. (And four tracks from the new Andrew Bird album.)

Short, irreverent, accurate, and funny.

How to survive a free-fall from an airplane.

A gay anti-Nazi archaeologist takes money from the SS all in the name of finding the Holy Grail. *This* should be a movie.

Jim Carrey as a genius, the "representative jester of our time." "Carrey’s dream sequence of movies is a prophecy, a warning that this clanking ego-apparatus in which each of us walks around, this fissured, monumental self, half Job and half Bertie Wooster, cannot be sustained. Out of his own seemingly bottomless disquiet, Carrey writhes and reaches into the bottomless disquiet of his audience."

"A Mac OS X Leopard developer tool for debugging HTTP services by graphically creating & inspecting complex HTTP messages."

The cool thing is that they actually are.

Stressing the importance of actively engaging everything that you take in and the way that you take it in, so you can synthesize and maximize and!

"'Garden of Eden', 2007 by Wollle shows eight pedestals, each of which is covered with an airtight Plexiglas box. Via the internet, the latest air pollution levels in the capitals of the G8-countries are obtained. The system reproduces these levels artificially inside these boxes, each of which contains a lettuce that serves an indicator of the quality of the air inside the capsules."

"Inspired by The Books' song of same name, Be Good To Them Always is a collection of four postcards and a stamped envelope, all Gocco printed. Made to send out as a humble thank you to people who've inspired me over the past couple of years."

Count down to Christmas with amazing photos that will remind you just how scary-big this place is.

I want this so badly. If it weren't a $77 piece of paper, I'd buy it.

Pretty funny. Short. "Starring Jack Black, John C. Reilly, and many more..."

Hot and weird.

I love wind turbines.

A great, humanizing interview with the musician and fashion designer. He's eclectic, egotistical, but honest and aware of how self-absorbed he is.

The ultimate resource for designing to a grid.

A great electronic playlist; a perfect blend of minimal and ambient textures and beats. "At moderate volume the sound is not distracting, but on a good set of headphones the wall of sound will crush every kind of thought around you and keep you disjointed and unfocused enough that you'll feel like drifting out from consciousness."

On the situation in Afghanistan and how, step-by-step and with troops we already have, we can start to fix it. "It's still winnable, but only just."

"Sometimes though, to keep a form one wants, everything else has to go."

Filip Dujardin is an architect who in his spare time puts together photographs of buildings to form new structures.

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.

On art which extends the present, and tickling yourself. This is what I love so much about music.