Todd Lappin found a great use for a beautiful piece of “scrap” metal, a panel from a Boeing 707: This hangs on one wall of our living room, above the stairway that leads down to the garage. As you walk up the steps, you get this view. My 707 has come a long way since [...]

In the spirit of Christopher Walken’s “The Continental,” Brawny offers Brawny Innocent Escapes: a series of shorts in which you are romanced by the flannel-wearing, poetry-writing, wood-sawing sensitive guy with a 5 o’clock shadow, the Brawny Man. Brawny Innocent Escapes

The grinning millipede is, of course, adorable, but check out the smiling+yawning+crying hydra in the background. Toddlerpedes (Via Boing Boing.)

Melissa’s “jelly” shoes are given a treatment by the Campana Brothers, São Paulo-based designers of complex, layered, humorous and/or beautiful objects. Melissa USA moss: Campana Brothers (Via MoCo Loco)

Japanese pop group watches Ringu and gets punk’d. seanbonner.com: Japanese School Girls Watching Ringu

Any design/car nut loves the BMW Isetta. But what I love best is that BMW keeps changing their mind over whether it’s something they’re embarrassed or proud of. When it’s the former, the Isetta is an amusing experiment of a car given to BMW by a refrigerator manufacturer. When it’s the latter, it’s an important [...]

MoCo Loco reports on new tableware from crazy-twisty-botanical designer Tord Boontje. MoCo Loco: Table Stories Authentics

Five imaginary Apple products, as envisioned by PowerBook designer Rob Brunner and design firm Pentagram. Business 2.0 : Re-Imagining Apple Pentagram (Via Boing Boing)

Josh Console created this fun mashup of Galang and the Super Mario Bros theme: Superlangalang (via Boing Boing)

Bill Nye is back with a new show that will discuss science at an “adult” level. The Eyes of Nye will address issues like addiction, sex, cloning, population, and climate change. But that doesn’t mean it won’t be funny: How can you not make it funny? Humor is everywhere, in that there’s irony in just [...]