Wow, I didn't know it gets foggy in Dubai. Cool pic from daveandmairi.

Stunning portraits by Johannes Schwab

Today's xkcd comic is SO cool -- based on the recent Discovery channel commercial-- that we're asking people to send us video of themelves singing the xkcd lyrics so we can make a giant xkcd music video!

Olafur Eliasson's New York City Waterfalls: a public art project of 4 man-made waterfalls rising from New York Harbor. It will appear June 26 -Oct. 13, running 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Oliviero Toscani - amazing set of photos showing off these kids as "Eco-Warriors"

IM Talkathon! You can help raise money for the charities of your choice by simply iming! I love the concept ~ a nice way to have what we're already doing help causes we care about. Check out the blog...

The New HTC Touch pro Announced!

If you don't say "om nom nom" out loud, you're not doing it right.

portfolio of brazilian graphic designer - Naíma Almeida

A list of 19 great artists from around the web. Some will be familiar to the NotCot audience, others maybe not.

Harvard Graduate School of Design students Kiduck Kim and Christian Stayner have conceived of a Floating City for New Orleans that will “rise safely in an Archimedean liquid landscape.”

The two Amsterdam animal refuges in Amsterdam have been amalgamated: the new-built is the largest pound in the Netherlands. The result is a green, playful animal refuge center. By dutch Arons & Gelauff Architecten.

Wisteria Lane might be the picture perfect setting on Desperate Housewives, but what would it look like in real life?

Chen Zhun's Anime Style photographs for a photo comic novel. NSFW

Comfort, poethic and progressive products for fine dining restaurants by Jens Fager.

The artist Lucas Kuys is selling his tiny floating retreat, made from driftwood and the roof a grocery van, for £60,000 (ouch!), but I found plans to build a very similar one, for a lot less money.

Iron man 2: War Machine

A beautiful rendering of the mineral content of the moon. The image is a compilation of 53 photographs taken in 1992 by the Jupiter-bound Galileo spacecraft.

For the hungry fencers in your life - BBQ Sword - the perfect saber for roasting anything from marshmallows to hotdogs - or skewering your foe.

Golf 190 from Swedish Modern Living is a two story house with 6 rooms. The house is partly dress in ceder. Living and entertaining areas are designed to be upstairs and bedrooms and bathrooms down stairs.

A brilliant combination of pixel art and street art. The photo was taken in New York City.

Get-Out-and-Play - This new Nokia N-Gage viral is sizzling through the interw3b. The general idea is at least 50 years old, but agency Farfar have taken it to new heights.

amazing chairs created by Johannes Gille and Jos Kranen from The Netherlands, the aluminium back of the chair, for instance can be any decoration, whether its Tirol or New York City…

A very nice appeal to the female gender in this ad for an epilation product. Ad made by Lowe Strateus, Paris, France.

Rob Sheridan's new print depicts a melancholy reunion of old cereal mascots in a scene oozing with '70's nostalgia.

The new work by Studio83 is a a series of wallpapers for the 100% Free Initiative.

Red's Scarlet - the camera of my dreams... and i didn't even need one. It has 3k resolution (for reference that largest dark grey rect. is 1080p) - is tiny... gorgeous... and if we get one, we'll make NOTCOT vids... read more...

Glow in the dark marbles! Kit Petit Poucet - Billes Phosphorescentes - by Pepin Le Malin

Blue Ant Studio's Chair Exam poster is an eye/mind exam for any designer chair lover!

This.is.so. COOL! Print your own tattoos.

008 Movement and Upper Playground strike again with their latest artist collab posters in support of Obama, this time from Munk One and Sam Flores! Also, special NOTCOT giveaway...

Method's two new products - Lil' Bowl Blu Toilet Cleaner and Le Scrub Tub Scrub with sponge

New issue of MAP Magazine online! FEATURING: The Raveonettes, CocoRosie, Irvine Welsh, The Postmarks, WMC, Del the Funky Homosapien, Luis Gispert and China's Booming Art Scene.

A compendium of cool kitchen gadgets such as a vacuum canister marinade machine and the Thermomix.

At the border of two countries 10 stories underground, a photographer finds himself inside a 5 million horsepower machine - Niagara Falls.

Michael Ferris.
At first, I thought...candy, but no. The sculptures are so visually tactile, they make my eyes itch.. in a good way.

Waffle Tetris ~ you will never see waffles the same way again.

Tryciflip ~ fun, simple design on this three wheeled kids contraption to run around on! From Imaginarium.

Set of free fonts is based on hair gel, toothpaste, and tomato ketchup.

Abstract-Ïto | The first jewelry line designed by Ora-Ïto for Christofle 2008.

Great blog of Spanish designers, which combine illustration and photography. Rbelion ~ from Valencia, Spain

Beautiful iphone wallpapers from Signal Noise

Updated! Cynthia scanned and emailed over some pics of the interior of those mysterious Louis Vuitton City Guides!

Superbowl XLII is over ~ but you can still see all the ads! Here are my favorites from today's game.

Could this be the last reusable tote option we need? The Onion has their "Stop Staring At My Tote" Tote. And it's only $7.50

On bizarre spastic games i'm looking forward to coming out soon ~ check out this crazy trailer video for 2D Boy's World Of Goo, a physics based puzzle / construction game!