Volkswagen's transparent factory in Copenhagen.
You can watch your Phaeton built in front of you and drive away in it, straight from the factory!

SO excited that Revolve Clothing has added a "Culture" section to our favorite online fashion stop... its like they added the NOTCOT to their NotCouture!

Natalie Portman featured in an Indian Music Video.
Devendra Banhart’s "Carmensita"

BARQO: image bank of chilean architecture.
You can find more than 2500 photographies of the best architecture works of Chile.

The Walker house in Sydney, Australia has been put up for sale at over $10 million

The last 50 years of industrial fishing have reduced worldwide populations of large predatory fish - sharks, swordfish and tuna by 90%. Check out this piece that touches on ways to change the rules to save marine fish population.

Calf and Half ~ A fun addition to any table, especially those who are fans of double walled glass! Design: Liz Goulet Dubois, Fred studio

The new Carafe N°5 by Etienne Meneau, made of borosilicate glass in limited edition ~ 8 numbered and signed and 4 artist proofs.

Comparing Vanity Fair's great recreation of iconic Hitchcock scenes from their March Hollywood issue with the original old movie stills.

Ferrari 612 Scaglietti, made just the way you want it.

The Contemporary Jewish Museum by Daniel Libeskind opened this Sunday. Interiors full of light and shaped corners.

Seeing an engraved moleskine, we didn't believe it was really engraved, it felt silk screened... until we looked at it 200x close up...

Polyface Farm ~ once you hear how they run their fully sustainable farm, and you taste their chickens/pork/eggs/etc ~ i dare you to try and eat industrially farmed animals again...

Gorgeous, sad music video for A Dream of Gardens, written by Olga Nunes & Neil Gaiman.

More realistic Wii Racing with this controller holding gadget?

A collection of stewardess uniforms from all over the world.

The library extension to the Pontificial Lateran University has as objective to bring the activity of reading and the consultation of books as the central occupation of the university. By King Roselli

Meet Helbotica!
Toronto based graphic deisgner, Jonathan Yule, explores illustration using typography.

The Cutler Residence in Montauk, New York.
Designed by Murdock Young Architects.

most worthless money

MP Industries Berlin has some gorgeously tempting felt weaponry for those times you just need to... on i dunno, pretend you have a Glock 9mm with Tactical Light?

Fully Booked showcases some of the most innovative books being published today. Shown here is Pete Sampson’s Tiling Books.

Cereal tastes better with an Orland-O's cereal label.

Interesting Beating Heart Pillow at Elsewares. Has a computerized heartbeat that can help you relax and meditate.

The awesome reactable collaborative sythesizer now has an open-source alternative: Psychosynth. No multi-touch verson yet, but that's on it's way as well...

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

Glowmobile - The iconic Midwest mode of transportation covered with glow paint by artist Scott Stulen in Minnesota.

LV pops up 10 Canal Street like fake bag vendors outside their brooklyn murakami exhibition launch... selling REAL BAGS. Fight Counterfeiting by doing... not just talking...

Nice animated and funny identity created by Mutado creative studio for MTV's new show called Mtv “The Most"

Paul Robertson's (of Pirate Baby's Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006) new pixel-art film Kings of Power 4 Billion %. 12 minutes of painstakingly animated insanity.

What happens if fonts were to date. Also, see what type you are in the typecasting quiz.

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.

Monaco House by McBride Charles Ryan, 2008 | Melbourne

Dubai...where it came from....and where its going. An interesting photo essay

A Fishing Kayak you can STAND UP on

Here's a pretty new site, Movable Love ~ that looks a bit like NOTCOT.org! ~ only its dedicated to Movable Type blogs like NOTCOT.com!

"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"

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

PK chewing gum gives fresh breath confidence to talk as close as they want.

Last week in Munich at the Optics Trade show, OPTI 2008, Porsche Design unveiled their new ultra light reading glasses, the P'8134. Colors vary from matte gold and matte titanium, Price: TBD. Pretty wild.

Smaller dysons are coming in March! A more compact version of the classic ball vacuum, as well as Dyson Baby the mini canister vac.

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

Nice logo on the Whiskipedia page.... yes thats the wikipedia of WHISK(e)Y