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Hair Glasses by Studio Swine Artificial Moon by Wang Yuyang (via today and tomorrow) The History of the English Language in Ten Animated Minutes 30 Second MBA: How to Deliver Difficult News to Anyone This might just have to be a future post: The Four Hour Chair (via 2modern blog) The 20 most-watched TEDTalks (so far) This site has a bunch of good gifts organized by recipient or occasion: People Love Presents (mostly UK links, fyi) Work Smarter, Not Harder [an interview w/Evan Roth] by Nick Briz Have a safe and happy holiday weekend!

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AT: How To Print DIY Patterned Fabric Dear Photograph GOOD: What Rising Gas Prices Mean for the Obesity Epidemic Designing Is About The Decisions You Make Every Day: An autobiographical essay on living a designed life, by Stefan Boublil. How Many Households Are Like Yours? (via @brainpicker) Minarc's RUBBiSH sink is made from recycled rubber and looks pretty intriguing. Another find by Core77: Stephen Colbert 3D printed (ColberT-rex by JamieClay shows the possibilities to be had). The Sartorialtwist (via @designmilk) Love: Balloon Bench by Japanese designer Satoshi Itasaka from h220430 studio. Crazy good painterly tattoos by Amanda Wachob (via Design*Sponge)…

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Buy your friend a gift card redeemable by smartphone: GiftRocket (via EcoSalon) Huge board with a whole lot of switches: Untitled (Hello World) by Valentin Ruhry. (via today and tomorrow) Really great pie-chart graffiti by Golan Levin, available in downloadable pdfs. (via GOOD) Nice (free!) weather screen saver by Stefan Trifan. barebones cards via notcot Amazing flickrl rug that "reuses 2000 pictures of February 2, 2011... The result is a 4 m x 0,8 m rug representing 30 seconds of internet activity..." price: 1880.00 € (via designspotter.com) The Art of Doing Stuff: How to make a tree stump table (via…

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Read this before you buy anything else. Fab just launched. Yes, please: Help Create an Email Charter (via swissmiss) DON'T!: The secret of self control (apparently). Sign petitions, call up local representatives, organize meet ups, and more with the new iPhone app from ONE. (via TBD) Cute/clever: Twin Baby A/B by Snug Attack Bibliographic: 100 Classic Graphic Design Books by Jason Godfrey (via Brain Pickings) Vertical Garden Box at Paxton Gate for $39 or $59 depending on size. Silliness: Cute overload Bikes, Cars and Pedestrians at 28th & Park Ave: A Never-Ending Cycle of Near Misses I'm going to attempt…

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Great walkthrough of Eames Shell Chair restoration over at Plastolux. Nice article on de-cluttering. Fast Company: How Apple And Gucci Tickle Your "God Spot" CNN.com: Ex-Facebooker Dave Morin: You can't be friends with everyone Small changes net big results. The 10-piece wardrobe for an entire year. (Via NotCouture) Very cool! DittoKey. Slightly scary to think that one's key's can be duplicated so easily! Acne JR Toys (via David Report) Photopic Sky Survey: free download of image if you want it on your desktop, fyi. (via TreeHugger) Have a lovely weekend, as usual.

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Über minimal house in Portugal by Manuel Aires Mateus (via [BB-Blog])   Also seen on [BB-Blog]: neat upcycled chandelier, unfortunately no longer available on Etsy.   Cute. Playing with an Otter (via neatorama)   The Makers: a photo project by Jennifer Causey   Before I die, I want to...: a project by Candy Chang   Shawn Smith's sculptures via jocundist   TBD free newsletter   TED: Paul Nicklen: Tales of ice-bound wonderlands   Encyclopedia of Gratitude   Duckface!   Have a gggreat weekend!

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Friday links, as usual: If your house was burning, what would you take with you? The Burning House For sale (swoon):

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New site redesign for Brain Pickings (so much good stuff) Words of the World via Brain Pickings, of course Ten Eyck Landscape Architects via Plastolux Infographic: Just How Dangerous Is Sitting All Day? Does this idea have wheels or what? (ha) A Table Uses Your Bike As a Chair Apple Core Cable Tamers over at swissmiss Tomorrow, for those lucky few of you near Granada Hills: Tour of six Eichler homes 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 14, 2011. Enjoy the weekend, and thank your lucky stars you don't have a head cold.

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The 99 Percent: Why Creative People Need to Be Eccentric Helveticards via Svpply Stuff you can clean with shampoo (other than your hair) via Lifehacker an afternoon with...: a project about people and their spaces Love, love, love: The Wary Meyers Shop Shopping for Toys With David Weeks Now, you go and have a lovely weekend.

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This apartment in Barcelona by Barbara Appolloni is crazy small; it's impressive, of course, and well thought out, but I'm telling you, it's tiiiiny. Video below. Via materialicious. See more at HomeDSGN or at Barbara Appolloni.

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In a nod to today's festivities: Royal Sick Bag by graphic artist Lydia Leith The Wong Show at SFMOMA Interesting recycled furniture used as planters featured over at Dezeen Crappy Taxidermy via Readymade Paxton Gate looks to have a nice selection of odd things... plants, natural science stuff, strange jewelry, etc. I really like the Oil Can Pendant Lamps. Have a nice weekend.

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Awesome Mac OSx tips for pro users. F-ing Finally. How secure are your passwords? (via SwissMiss)

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This week I've been obsessing over data and ways to communicate it. For inspiration there's FlowingData and also Feltron and his blog. For those of you who like to get your hands dirty there's: Processing.org and Processingjs: a fun, javascripty and open source programming language for data visualization. There's also D3 and another one called Protovis. The 10 Best Foods for Your Looks Living in 90 square feet in Manhattan! How would you organize the space? I think I'd build the floors up and do hidden storage in compartments below the floor. All that stuff above me would give me…

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Here are the links we liked this week: If you're curious as to how much sun London got last year: London: The Year From Space Interesting rustic lamps made from disgarded Christmas trees: Flume Lamps via core77 Embroidered book covers by Jillian Tamaki: Penguin Threads Deluxe Classics via The Fox Is Black World's Largest Indoor Photo A rather impressive upcycling of old cabinets: the ecospot Awesome Ikea hack DIY via DoorSixteen Have you ever wondered? Have a nice weekend.

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And here are this week's links: Shirotokuro (Shortened form of ‘Shiroi to kuroi’-- Japanese for ‘black and white’.) Gmail organization! Awesome. We love Jenny's selections over at Aubrey Road. Closet visits! Currently, I think my life would improve by 15% if I had this soap. Reborn. Bring your broken stuff to repair at the Fixers' Collective in Brooklyn (via boingboing) History of the world in 100 seconds, according to Wikipedia. If you have the original iPad, take a look at this: Smart Cover For Original IPad Predictive Smiles (via Tish's Place) Cool diagram of a nuclear reactor cooling system Unplggd:…

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Links that caught our eyes this week: Daytum- They recently came out with an iPhone App and it makes making fun graphs easy. Whoa. This post is from late 2009, but still: the future is crazy. GOOD: The Lazy Person's Guide to Exercise: Seven Ways To Get Moving Awesome desk-bed-loft for kids by MihaDesign (via swissmiss) MNMLIST What would it look like to approach Saturn in a spaceship? Cassini Approaches Saturn Recycled Teddy Bear Rugs by Agustina Woodgate (via unconsumption) Nike Speakers: Challenging Throwaway Culture Through Repurposing (via unconsumption) National Geographic's The Face of 7 Billion (via design taxi) and,…

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