Gore Vidal: "We'll have a dictatorship soon in the United States" (TimesUK)

DailyDropCap features a new decorative letter a day

The plain beauty of well-made things (designobserver)

The 20 dollar millionaire (esquire)

The Making of Glenn Beck (salon)
From drug-addicted shock jock to right-wing mouthpiece

A stick figure guide to (Advanced Encryption Standard) AES

Suburbs of the Imagination (Infrastructurist)

Chulha Stove (designobserver)
This simple stove promises to help reduce the 1.6 million fatalities associated each year with indoor cooking, 25 percent in India alone.

The Jet-propelled Couch (Harpers (1954), via boingboing)
A psychiatrist's account of a physicist who believed he was an extra-terrestrial being.

Ghost Fleet

The Cat Piano from PRA on Vimeo.

The Richard Balzer collection of antique optical toys

A great selection of vintage bike ads at RatRodBikes

Graphic concrete

You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here.

Every Infocom game. Online.

South African internet speed faceoff: Pigeon vs. DSL.
Pigeon wins.

cargocycling

Honda rickshaw

Clambrau

Interesting. Impractical. cutlery made from cut-up plastic bottles, then coated with metal.

Slide Rule Museum

Other companies should have to read this internal netflix presentation (techcrunch)