- Bluejake: Awesome photo project! All submissions to Jake's blog are blue...
- Ikea Closes on Red Hook Property: Sweden takes back Brooklyn....finally
- Roy Kushner's new picture frame: Signature style - plexiglass with a bolt straight through
- HOW Conference yesterday: A "talk" with Stefan Sagmeister reported by Elizabeth Spiers
- Just what you need for a pitcher-full of Margarita's tonight
- Sale House: Beautifully colorful CA house by Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee
- Too good to be true?: Gambarelli's Oxygena Air Purifying Floor Tiles
- New Country Houses: 30 magnificent houses
- Whole Foods stock soars: Reader forum pipes up on whether the "people" agree
- Core 77 covers Neocon in Chicago: BMW Designworks' new chair for Emeco is unveiled
- America's green goddess : A profile of Alice Waters (Chez Panisse) from The Guardian
Writer's Almanac:
- It was on this day in 1940 that the German Army marched into Paris
- POEM: "Turtle" by Kay Ryan from Flamingo Watching
Wow, the Sale House should be a new archetype for modern Southern California living. The living spaces opening up to that private courtyard... delicious. (Venice always seems to have the most interesting examples of MoCo architecture since the property lots are so small.)