It’s a piece of furniture! It’s a medieval torture device! No it’s both! Form definitely follows function with this “Pillory Table.” Pillory Table (Via Boing Boing.)

The sickest pizza cutters you’ll ever see: My pizza cutters seek to demolish the sterile conformity of mass produced objects and represent the stylistic and flamboyant embellishment of groups who live on the fringe of popular culture. The outlaw biker image is a break from the conformity that has taken over America since industrialization. My [...]

Good Experience speaks briefly with Bob Mankoff, cartoon editor for the New Yorker. Mankoff is consulting with University of Michigan’s psychology department for a project researching how people process humor. The experience of humor is similar to the ‘ah-ha’ moment of two things coming together. For humor, two things have to come together to produce [...]

Google Sightseeing is a blog collecting interesting landmarks viewable from Google’s new tool that integrates maps with satellite imagery. Google Sightseeing Google Maps (with satellite imagery turned on)

Takashi Murakami and other Superflat artists have invaded Manhattan with works in various public spaces throughout the island. There’s a cute culture in Japan that everyone knows about. But without digging deeper, it’s hard to understand. It’s like Pop Art – if you can’t understand the consumer culture in America, you can’t understand it. NYTimes [...]

Apparently the latest trend in Dubai is novelty archipelagoes. Hot on the tails of “The Palm,” a pair of artificial islands shaped like palm trees, comes The World Islands, a whole chain of islands shaped like THE WORLD. And by world, they mean a world without an Israel. The World will consist of between 250 [...]

Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore loves mix tapes. Wired has an adapted excerpt from his forthcoming book, Mix Tape: The Art of Cassette Culture. I made what I thought was the most killer hardcore tape ever. I wrote H on one side, and C on the other. That night, after my love Kim had fallen asleep, [...]