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From New York/French architecture firm Planda, a house for the duo. Fictional, thankfully.

"Adaptable, minimalist interfaces." Oh. My. God.

Looking good.

How to set up Photoshop so this will never happen again.

What to do. Illustrations by Gorey.

A very focused blog that ruined/made my evening.

Simply a collection of beautiful book covers.

"My wifesd*porcupine hot pix for u."

This could come in handy someday.

An ad campaign for atheism in London is aiming to counter religious ads, one bus billboard at a time.

Great work, as usual. Understated, to great effect. Adam kills. The short bits are great. Want more.

Kenan Malik writes that the attempt to preserve "cultural identity and authenticity" is largely an inauthentic act, one steeped in relativism and traditionalism, and more concerned with how individuals "should" act than how they actually do. Thanks to @kemp for the link.

A painting from 1968. I have no idea. (My personal homepage used to be driftingembers.com, a domain name I found incredibly rad in high school.)

"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."