Andrew Hyde's 15 things:

1. Arc’teryx Miura 30 backpack
2. NAU shirt
3. Mammut rain jacket
4. Arc’teryx tshirt
5. Patagonia running shorts
6. Quick Dry towel
7. NAU wool jacket
8. Toiletry kit
9. Smith sunglasses
10. Wallet
11. MacBook Air
12. iPhone 3GS
13. NAU dress shirt
14. Patagonia jeans
15. Running shoes

And a nice takeaway:

Debt kills dreams

Jeremy Ashkenas' minimal proposal for defining classes via object literals in JS.

1. Stop buying stuff you don’t need
2. Pay off all your credit cards
3. Get rid of all the stuff that doesn’t fit in your house/apartment (storage lockers, etc.)
4. Get rid of all the stuff that doesn’t fit on the first floor of your house (attic, garage, etc.)
5. Get rid of all the stuff that doesn’t fit in one room of your house
6. Get rid of all the stuff that doesn’t fit in a suitcase
7. Get rid of all the stuff that doesn’t fit in a backpack
8. Get rid of the backpack

...the "//" in "http://".

Kind of a nice roundup from Smashing Magazine

"SimpleMC is meant to provide an easy way for content editors to edit blocks of content. It is meant for smaller sites, where clients just want to get in, edit some content, and get out."

RadientCMS ported to PHP. Nice.

"Complexity is a kind of code smell"

Gorgeous swiss minimalism from Boulder design trio. This site has a really nice interaction layer to it.

Shaun Inman releases an ultra-small personal url shortener. Nice.

"Here’s a self-enforcing protocol for determining property tax: the homeowner decides the value of the property and calculates the resultant tax, and the government can either accept the tax or buy the home for that price. Sounds unrealistic, but the Greek government implemented exactly that system for the taxation of antiquities."

An article on methods of maintaining a good user interface in the face of an onslaught of features.

A wonderful simple style. Good magazine once collaborated with AWH for one of its gorgeous transparencies.

A wiki in 222 characters of Perl

Nice minimalist swiss design

Nice modernist web design portfolio.

Another set of modern-minimalist re-imaginings.

Saul Bass-esque designs for modern movies, video games and other contemporary things.

Intricate and minimal grid-based design. Very evocative of Muller Brockmann. A clever play with layering elements (foreground and background playfully intertwine) causes the page to pop, keeping it from looking flat.

Gorgeous web site design with a subtle spackle/glow texture, transparency and a serif font.

One of those single-serve personal webpages. This one sets itself apart through the use of unusual type and just enough of a splash of color.

Brilliant, beautiful, giant Helvetica. And that classy spotlight background effect.

Event planning made incredibly simple. No login. No signup.

Swiss designed library. My jaw is hitting the floor.

One response to rampant consumerism.

Score another one for the simplest possible solution.

Smart, sleek 10x10 square prefab homes that don't need a foundation, and are prewired.

New York Times. An image list of prefab home manufacturers.

New York Times examines a trend toward small, beautiful, minimalist housing. Some gravitate to it for conservation, some for simplicity, some for the outdoors.

Simplicity of design, and purposeful concept.