the cia shop now has a blog!

Ginou Choueiri's potato portraits creep me out.

totally awesome new exhibit called Extreme Mammals at the American Museum of Natural History. and incredible coverage by the new york times! check out the interactive!

if you haven't already checked out coudal's museum of online museums spring 09, i strongly recommend you do.

cute reading glasses from Caroline Abram of Filao.

la mosca (previously featured as #14064) do some gorgeous infographics . their recent feature on designboom brought them back to mind and they merit another mention!

The Ellington Orchestra performed at the the 125th Street subway station at St. Nicholas Avenue in Harlem and on a special A train for the 110th anniversary of Ellington's birth.

i love the nytimes tmagazines. their design spring 09 issue looks like the best one yet.

wonderful nytimes article on social insects and slideshow on ants. including pics of some of the more unusual species.

Roxy Paine's Maelstrom is a gleaming arboreal spawl at the Cantor Roof Garden on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

NYtimes capture a skateboarder's dream house in a slideshow of Jay Shapiro and Claire Bigbie's San Francisco (Noe Valley) Victorian house.

soo kwon's plus minus stackable white goods are cute. not only do they stack, they let you choose whether you're going for a plus or minus portion.

Louis Filosa's 'Guarden' is a safe, retractable fence to protect your vegetable garden.

check out wendy plomp's cardboard carpets.

this bumblebee moth shirt is from specimen apparel. so cute!

Now that succulent pork is back in fashion, the Mangalitsa — saved from near extinction on a farm here at the edge of Hungary’s bleak and barren Great Plain — are making a comeback.

Sam Bompas, left, and Harry Parr, two young products of Eton and University College, London, have quickly become England's leading jelly artists, or as they call themselves, jelly mongers.

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.