nick goddard arranged the unemployed olympics in new york. an opportunity to "battle all the unemployed people for stuff" in events like "pin the blame on the boss", "you're fired race", "and pay days" (bashing a pinata with an office phone).

great table football set by piet hein eek.

le corbusier at the barbican.

hehe, the alli-grater! part grater, part ferocious beast.

another fantastic graphic from today's NYT feature on animal armaments.

these cute crayon rings from timothy liles are available at the future perfect.

Boxed Water is Better for the Earth.

incredible footage from last night's nature's great events of a humpback whale feeding on baitballs.

Rob Holman, an oceanographer at Oregon State University has a rather impressive collection of sand. This NYtimes feature captures the diversity, grain by grain.

an old one, but nonetheless. pingmag on fencing. awesome.

Village Underground provides affordable studio space for young artists in Shoreditch, London. Part of their space includes recycled subway cars. Stunning!

For the philatelist: check out the A to Z of New Zealand stamps from Clemenger BBDO. Issued 6 August 2008.

check out Adam Goodrum's Stitch Chair. It folds to less than a half-inch thick and is available in various solid colors or a patchwork of colors at Cappellini stores.

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Boston is home to some fantastic science museums.

In the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, a hippie boardinghouse once run by an elderly lesbian minister is now a family home remade with a warmed-up modernism and the restrained inflections of Norwegian design.

ever wonder how your hard drive and other electronics get trashed?

Pedipaws is just one of the dog grooming gizmos featured in this nytimes slideshow.

I have yet to attend a mustachioed wedding party, but fake mustaches at wedding do look fun. check out more pics via offbeat bride.

when reading a nytimes article on the suffering economy in china, i spotted this shot of piles of santa snoopys. one looks like it might be escaping!

vampire bats are just one of the nyt's featured phlebotomists (yes, thats a blood sucker).

At Spring Mountain ski area, in Schwenksville, PA, you can catch a glimpse of the fall foliage up close in the canopy.

Thomas Small and Joanna Brody's eco-friendly prefab in Culver City.

some cute pieces over at eden and eden.

subway-life: antonio jorge gonclaves draws people on subway trains in 10 cities around the world for 3 weeks in each city.

the BBCs coverage of banksy's village pet shop.

banksy's "the village petstore" in a nytimes slideshow.

check out this "beautification engine". it's software that adjusts the features of an image to enhance its attractiveness.

i stumbled joshua middleton's site and some these are just gorgeous!

ornithology and art from the new york times. excerpts from "Birds: The Art of Ornithology" by Johnathan Elphick and "Egg and Nest" by Rosamond Purcell, Linnea S. Hall and René Corado

comet dust, red fluorescing fish and fungal catapults are just a part of this week in science.

The Smithsonian's new Sant Ocean Hall looks definitely worth checking out.

skaters and their shoes...style over function?

Matthew Blesso, turned his Lower Manhattan penthouse over to two Yale professors, the architect Joel Sanders and the landscape architect Diana Balmori. And wow...

I loved Barbar as a kid and was pleased to hear about"Drawing Babar: Early Drafts and Watercolors," a new exhibit at the Morgan Library and Museum through Jan. 4, 2009.

the nytimes slideshow of the new california academy of sciences.

of all the fashion week buzz, my favorite posts have come from greg kessler's model morphosis photo sets for the nytimes. it's incredible how versatile these models can be.

the nytimes takes a look at opening ceremonies fashion. great images of olympics through the past.

'botanical martini' glass by benjamin hubert studio has received the runner up prize in the UK
bombay sapphire designer glass competition. check out how they're made too!

Thomas Pauls's Sealife melamine design is so cute! I especially love the horseshoe crab plate!

the new Rogan store on the Bowery looks gorgeous!

i love the trophy ring. the ultimate anti-engagement token lets bachelors mark their trophies to reveal the gold beneath the silver coating.

one of many stunning images put together by the nyt from the hubble telescope.

nyt architecture review of the bird's nest, the olympic stadium in beijiing.

gotta love a blimp? i mean...airship. zeppelins and friedrichshafen by the nyt.

the solar eclipse seen from around the world

business guys on business trips. so funny cuz its true. you cant help but smile at these illustrated lame office stories.