Garbage Island - Incredible - VBS actually chartered a 3 week trip out to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch that we've been fascinated by for a while now... and made a 12 part mini series... see the first few parts up now!

It's Yuri's Night! The annual all-night bash around the world kicks off April 12 with nearly 200 parties around the globe, including shindigs at NASA Research facilities, Antarctic research stations and universities in Africa. Submit your Yuri's Night photos to Wired.com!!

The Apathy Party: Vote. Or don't. Whatever. [Editor's Note: nice site... just might be apathetic enough to get you thinking...]

Seal Line: Computer Sleeve - rain and splash proof rolltop laptop sleeve!!!

we mocked an incredible UX for the BMW/FM microsite, but all that remains is the comment section that was my favorite part! Thanks to Linhchi for the design! we might need to redesign NOTCOT.com next?

Unique objects from India, Senegal, Mexico,Hamburg, Iran, China , Russia and more.

On internet meme's that are so bizarre... this tumblr post and video have taken the rick rolling to a whole new level. Truly. Epic. Rocketboom Rick Rolls Tim Shey via singing messenger.

A comprehensive list of animal phonetic sounds in different languages.

Enough with the haggis! THIS is what you do with a sheep's stomach. The glow of this lamp has a gorgeous hue. If you visit Julia Lohmann's site, be sure to check out the cow benches, as well.

Fun prototype from Maarteen Baas, it is a hand-carved knife-block shaped like a man's head, the knives sticking out of it in gruesome humor.

Green Dream Home | Casa OS by Nolaster Architects

Againstallodds has made some absolutely spectacular spots for Coke Zero. The spots were for Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam through Passion, with Derek Picken as creative director and Niklas Rissler art directing.

Will Murai has some gorgeous illustrations ~ Here's his What's Yo Flava print in Strawberry ~ wander through the portfolio.

If you missed out on CardBoys regular 2008 calendar, here is the special chinese year of the rat edition.

"Processes: Living Paintings" is a 35 by 16 meter full facade projection with a corresponding light choreography, ambient music and synced sound effects for the 100th anniversary of the Phyletic Museum in Germany founded by Ernst Haeckel.

New York Magazine's Daily Intelligencer got their hands on an internal Gawker/Valleywag email on post writing tips... perhaps these could be well applied to caption writing.

Rob Sheridan’s prints - I just received the "Troublemaker" and it is beautiful and intriguing!

For anyone who has been itching to get an iconic Panton chair... 2 for 1 deal on this Verner Panton 1968 stackable chair at Modern Dose with the code "domino"

“1-click award” is a competition awarding interactive works using mouse actions, organized by Japanese recruiting company Recruit.

Great Photography by Tony Notarberardino. The collection looks back at movies like, The Graduate and Chinatown.

A gallery of the illustrations, messages, and LOL cats that twitter uses when it goes down...

Nice Room & Board Copenhagen Media Console to hang or place the plasma on... and discreetly hide the many game consoles, etc. New for 2008 you can get them open top, in various sizes/finishes.

Finnish artist Ilkka Halso depicts a future where nature becomes an attraction due to its rarity.

Elegant and stylish lingerie. The lacemaker is a new Argentinian brand with some impressing designs. [Editor's Note: beware, its hard not to crack up at the music]

Beautiful Ketubah by Oded Ezer. (I love the cut away script)

A branding and packaging concept for sexual paraphernalia that is all about the "Experience" ~ Narcissus

The Floating Boathouse and the Sleeping Cottage, both designed by Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample of MOS, are located on an island in Lake Huron, Ontario, Canada.

Gibson introduces the world's first guitar with Robotic Technology. It tunes itself.

Stacking tray seats from Aguiniga Design.

Boyfriends beware... fights with girlfriends just got a tiny bit more dangerous thanks to XKCD's love note concept that got made into a real "virus".

Hoya Crystal ~ Design Boom opened up my eyes to their incredible crystal animals in black cages, skull collection... which sent me exploring the rest of this beautiful Japanese line as well.

Great portraits of halloween trick or treaters from the upper west side

Crackpot 2008 is here! Basically the best weekly dose of calendar art you can find...

Chocolade Haas by Sander Plug. A brilliant video of the final moments of some chocolate bunnies in surreal worlds as they meet their hot demises.

Another alphabet poster...this one from the talented folks at Standard Motion.

Argyle Academy has it all: bunnies, batman, a vampire cat. Check it out!

A Thabto design:

The shot glass as it's meant to be //A lethal bullet!

Mike Mills' designs for Thumbsucker movie... so true.

The Chanel name tags, pencils, notepads, press kits, headshots, etc had much effort put into every last detail, so i needed to share.

Here's the 2GB Cassette Tape MP3 Player, anyone else getting warm, nostalgic feelings? (and yup, you can put it in a regular tape player as well)

For all the voyeurs ~ John Huck's Couples ~ an installation piece showing images of couples mounted on wood.

An indoor ice skating facility by chileans Mauricio Leniz and Alberto Moletto. Great ilumination work.

The Stunning Ring ~ pepper spray built in

Latest from Mimoco, Undo Boy, Spear Collective.... KING & QUEEN! Adorable new Mimobots, featuring Mimozine Issue 1 (which is apparently rated R)

"finessed but never fussy" is the very apropos way jeremy pyles, of new york's niche design, describes his elegantly minimal handblown glass lighting.

Jenny Holzer-isms scrolling across Rome's monuments