• A wonderfully small and charming project of public defacement: Ulrika Erdes quickly cross stitches cute messages and drawings into the upholstery of public transportation.
• Darn Clever, These Chinese: a collection of eccentric Chinese Restaurant matchbooks.
• The latest gastronomic sensation: unlaid eggs plucked from the steaming carcasses of slaughtered chickens.
• The Wooster Collective rails against the 'artists' in the Boston Mooninite Invasion: "Fuck you guys. You're acting like you're some cool iconoclast artists who should become some mythic heros for all of us because you can mock the media and show that you're above them. You're not Abbie Hoffman. You're acting like all you did was put up some renegade art. But you didn't. You were employees and employees only. You did it for money." I guess making money invalidates art.
• "Should we let the Gaijin lay waste to Japan?" Well, they did it once before. A controversial magazine cover is causing an uproar amongst foreigners in Japan.
• Crap. One of my favorite musical podcasts, Post-Punk Junk, is shutting down due to bandwidth issues, only days after they released a comprehensive 240 minute primer on post-punk music.
• Your own Jeeves, in clock form. The Voco Clock, voiced by Stephen Fry. "I am delighted you have survived another night."
• The Library of Congress is finally starting to digitize fragile books.
