- It's official, infographics are everywhere: wine labels by Nick Felton.
- Mmmm, Corkellis House. One of the best Grand Designs projects of recent years.
- Lots of lovely Goldfinger vinyl covers.
- This is why you should get involved in Movember.
- Another way to raise money: "I am a guy who made thousands of dollars selling used socks on eBay".
- Also on eBay: "Nicolas Cage is a Vampire – Photo from 1870 Tennessee".
- Wilco live on Letterman. New album out next week. A tad excited. REM? REM who?
- Remembering Bertrand Goldberg, the pioneer behind Chicago's corncob towers (and therefore partly responsible for the perfection that is Yankee Hotel Foxtrot).
- Online gamers have managed to solve a decade-old scientific puzzle. In three weeks.
- Warco, an FPS where you hold a camera instead of a gun.
- Really enjoying Gimme Bar – here's my collection of yummy magazine covers.
- I've only just discovered creative curation blog Brain Pickings – loving that colour scheme.
- Interview with the makers of beautiful project management tool Solo.
- Eye classic collections: essentially sets of four back issues around a particular theme. No doubt significantly better than most design books for same price.
- The BBC don't have brand guidelines. They have a "Global Experience Language". Bloody hell. Meanwhile, Channel 4's style guides are rather nice.
- Sci-fi-ish photos of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault by Greg White. This is basically what the new The Thing movie should look like, but won't.
- Vincent Fournier's crisp, detached pictures of space facilities straddle the divide between documentary and fantasy.
- Darth Vader hairdryer.
- How many people are in space right now?
- Contagion sidewalk ads feature type made of growing bacteria.
- William Gibson's rejected Alien 3 screenplay. Interesting, but it's no dog-alien in a space-prison full of British character actors.
- Lebbeus Wood's wooden space monastery concept art for yet another Alien 3 that never was.