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Christine Chin's "Sentient Kitchen" sculptures imagine a whole set of kitchenware sculpted to resemble body parts. The hairy nostrils are a really good touch -- indeed, the whole collection uses sparse hairs to great effect. (via Street Anatomy)

I'm thrilled to be able to share the new website of Jazz and Improv legend Fred Kaz. For the better part of my life Fred's wisdom and music have been a guiding force in the lives of hundreds of the most creative people on Earth. As a young man Fred played with many of the [...]

Spencer Ackerman at Wired News: "The fact is America’s military efforts in Iraq aren’t coming to an end. They are instead entering a new phase. On January 1, 2012, the State Department will command a hired army of about 5,500 security contractors, all to protect the largest U.S. diplomatic presence anywhere overseas."

Dan Goldman's Red Light Properties is a serial webcomic about a Florida real-estate brokerage that specializes in exorcising haunted houses and then listing them for cheap. Goldman (who created the fantastic 08 graphic novel) takes a somewhat lighthearted premise and uses it as contrast to make the fundamental spookiness of his stories stand out in [...]

Important news: "Despite confusion, Carlos Santana is NOT Muammar Gaddafi; still very much alive." Via Tim Heidecker. Image Credit: l-r: ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images; Richard Drew/AP.

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Tim Biskup's new solo show just opened at the THIS Los Angeles gallery. The Los Angeles I'm Yours blog has a slew of striking images from the exhibition, titled Former State. "Tim Biskup's Former State at THIS" (Thanks, Greg Long!)

Our friend Rob Walker, author of Buying In and a contributor at Design Observer, has spun off another brilliant branch of the Unconsumption Project: The Unconsumption project that I co-founded, which is based around a group Unconsumption Tumblr and focuses on mindful consumption and creative reuse, has embarked on a really cool side project that [...]

How To Be A Retronaut posted a series of lovely vintage circus photos, all from Dominique Jando's The Circus Book: 1870-1950. (via @wonderosity)

Consider yourselves informed.

From the Aug, 1956 issue of Scientific American, this sweet advertisement for the Univac: "Leading companies throughout the country have learned that Univac has become synonymous with enlightened management. And Univac savings more than justify its use for electronic control of management problems. Find out how typical users have put Univac to work in virtually [...]

Our thoughts are with Mr. Murdoch on the day of his tragic loss.

As I type, U.S. president Barack Obama is addressing the nation on live television. "After nine years, America's war in Iraq will be over. (...) Our troops in Iraq will definitely be home for the holidays. After a decade of war, the nation that we need to build, the nation that we will build, is [...]

The editors of Poetry magazine invited me to contribute a piece for the October issue. It is here: "Everything Moves to Live." This Poetry podcast episode includes a conversation between me and the magazine's editors about Éluard, Godard, mainframes, and "found poetry" online. Audio: MP3 Link. My essay references this clip from Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville. [...]

A graph by the wonderful illustrator Chris Piascik.

[Video Link] At a recent college bowling event, a streaker dressed as an umpire ran onto the diamond and interrupted a free throw attempt. Policemen knocked him down and dogpiled him before he could jump out of the ring and maim anyone else.

I dote on pajamas and bathrobes (first thing I do when I get on an overnight flight is change into a pair of freshly ironed jammies for a good night's sleep -- I call it the "Most comfortable man in the sky project"), and boy, do ThinkGeek's Star Trek robes pluck at my heartstrings. They've [...]

From Futility Closet: Publicity hound Jim Moran brought a sealed case of playing cards to a meeting of magicians. One randomly chosen audience member opened the case, a second chose a deck, a third opened the deck, a fourth cut it, and a fifth chose a card. Moran said, “It’s the six of diamonds.” It [...]

[Video Link] Dan Colman of Open Culture writes: This summer, Jonathan Pararajasingham created 50 Renowned Academics Speaking About God and then Another 50 Renowned Academics Speaking About God. If you’re counting, that makes 100. Right alongside these twin videos came 20 Christian Academics Speaking About God, a montage featuring some respected figures (save Dinesh D’Souza) trying to [...]

Can your wife bake her own bread? Can she get a kid's leg stitched and not phone you at the office until it's all over? Find something to talk about when the TV set goes on the blink? Does she worry about the Bomb? Make your neighbors' children wish that she were their mother? Will [...]