pretty things aren't as easy to interact with

"I just need a way of offloading all my good intentions" re:"click me to do me" tools, this is cool

"reverse corporate espionage" and the process of institutional forgetting via migurski

"Parma, Gansu, founded in 2009 to produce ham that is 'Made in Parma'" via nicolatwiley

for this "Well, what if we created a "thing", which has no purpose, which is absolutely conceptual and highly theoretical and which nobody knows how to price?"

"The idea of a pizza ball lingered in his mind—he kept thinking of how he could produce such a unique product, only a much expanded version." re: infinite variation of pizza and weed frameworks

What happened to this website?  The execution of this idea was flawless and still stands strong in party anecdotes. "documents the outsourced production of a painting based on a collection of found jpgs"  Anyone know this guy?

"achieved notoriety after making a speech in which he jokingly denigrated the company's products, which caused the company's near collapse"

"a derivative object which retains ornamental design cues to a structure that was necessary in the original" via someone, good list here

adding points and badges does not make something a game

cool presentation style

THE WAKE UP KINGS! are here to wake YOU UP! While other wake up technologies use BORING nature sounds and BLARING beeps that have NOTHING to do with your transition from the world of SLEEP to the world of AWAKE, THE WAKE UP KINGS! wake you up with songs that are ALL ABOUT waking up! And we're not talking some sort of vague message about how it's good to wake up, these songs are SPECIFIC to all sorts of situations you might find yourself waking up in! (SO GOOD VIA BENNETT VIA RICKY)

night blogging via borna

sick idea for the postal service as location service provider (geo api) via migurski

o.g. chicago dj lil louis wrote a book, this is next level
"A MAN'S DIARY" A TRUE STORY OF A GOOD MAN'S SEARCH FOR A GOOD WOMAN

Nomothetic is based on what Kant described as a tendency to generalize /
Idiographic is based on what Kant described as a tendency to specify

via bldgblog

"The psychiatrist decides to send the portrait to some of his colleagues that have patients with recurrent dreams. Within a few months, four patients recognize the man as a frequent presence in their own dreams. All the patients refer to him as THIS MAN." via jmb

domain

"new ways of organizing possessions in the home"

PRE-STREETS: "The inhabitants lived in mud-brick houses which were crammed together in an agglutinative manner. No footpaths or streets were used between the dwellings, which were clustered in a honeycomb-like maze. Most were accessed by holes in the ceiling, which were reached by interior and exterior ladders and stairs. Thus, their rooftops were their streets."

modern / semi-practical rube goldberg

another oft-mentioned website / concept

via jpegmess

I wish these were discrete people in addition to being divided by "hates"

via cory_arcangel

new york times semi-sarcastic take on WK's new philosophical outpour...creatively, this new work seems much more on par with where the arts should be

I like this term

100. Musical instrument shops must pay an annual royalty to cover shoppers who perform a recognisable riff before they buy, thereby making a "public performance".

idea for a show with work by artists which would otherwise not fit within their expected style

list of techniques, as spelled out by Kerouac