This is awesome. snip: This 1,000 square-foot weekend cabin, basically a steel box on stilts, can be completely shuttered when the owner is away. Situated near a river in a floodplain, the 20’ x 20’ square footprint rises three stories and is topped by the living room/kitchen. Large, 10’ x 18’ steel shutters can be closed simultaneously using a hand crank. click the pic for more detailed pictures. Read More...

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awesome modular office furniture and more. shown here is the piece "connect" which has a movable desk space on wheels. love it! click the pic for more from this interesting design studio. Read More...

Currently under construction by Zaha Hadid Architects. click the pic for more fantastic pics. Read More...

uneetee.com is a great idea. It's the woot.com of T-shirt sites. Every day they sell one shirt by a featured artist. Shown here is Triskaidekaphobia (fear of the number 13). click the pic to visit the site. Read More...

This ingenious design scanned from Vogue Living Australia installs drawers into your stairs, allowing for a completely optimal use of space. Conceived and executed by an Australian Joinery company. Click the pic for more info.

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Webware.com has a nice overview of the top Web 2.0 applications sorted by category. If you are interested in Web 2.0, this is a nice place to start to get a grasp on what is available. Click the logo to visit the site. Read More...

Pink Chalk Studios is the Craft Blog of Kathy Mack, a Washington based sewing craft artist. Her tutorials on sewing are easy to understand, practical and well executed. Click the logo for more. Read More...

Born in 1958, Spanish artist Chema Madoz studied Art History at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and photography at the Centro de Enseñanza de la Imagen, also in Madrid.In 1990, he began working in the area of OBJECT PHOTOGRAPHY, which remains the principal theme of his works, to this day. click the pic for a small collection of his photos. Read More...

Just like it says, it's a collection of tools for adding web 2.0 feature to your website. Lots of cool stuff here. Click the logo for more. Read More...

A practical A-Z guide to the OS X command line. Click the pic to nerd out! Read More...

snip: A few years ago, Volkswagen took on a task that many people thought was impossible: they decided to develop a fuel-efficient, road-going compact car that could achieve an average fuel consumption of just 3 litres per 100 km (94 mpg). Not only did Volkswagen achieve this milestone in 1999, but they had an even larger goal in mind: an ultra fuel-efficient car with a super stingy fuel consumption rating of just 1 litre per 100 kilometres (282 mpg). Read More...

Nik Ainley combines illustration, design, typography, and 3D graphics to create some truly stunning imagery. The results of his work are often quite lovely. Click the pic to visit his portfolio site.

66-year-old architect Leonard Duffy has reinvented Velcro and made it better. Read More...

16 Awesome Data Visualization Tools compiled by Mashable.com
snip: "From navigating the Web in entirely new ways to seeing where in the world twitters are coming from, data visualization tools are changing the way we view content. We found the following 16 apps both visually stunning and delightfully useful." Read More...

Nice reconfiguration of all of Google's search functions in one simple interface by Chris McEvoy. Read More...

cool web application that use geotags to show you what's being posted on flickr in close to real time. It's like getting a visual pulse of the planet. Read More...

Another place to catch a movie or TV show you missed for free!

Interesting Idea. the entire building is a ramped corridor. Read More...

I love Design Milk's perfect little minimalist accessory. Click the link to get one from their Cafe Press Store Read More...

This makes so much sense for stormy days. Sadly, US customers (and non-EU residents) will have to be patient, as storm umbrellas cannot yet be shipped outside the European Union.
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This convertible sofa has something that I haven't seen before. It's like a puzzle game. The ottoman perfectly slides into the detachable seatback and armrests–forming a stylish two-toned bed in the process. This convertible sofa can be purchased from PadStyle $899. - Via - PadStyle Read More...

This idea isn't super original and the photos aren't even amazing... but they are a bit naive(?) and sometimes funny. Click the pic for more, be sure to check out the "eccentric" gallery there are also some great portraits. Read More...

Cassie Metcalf collects and scans vintage ephemera... and sells scans of the old stuff to you at a reasonable price. Interesting idea, and for designers and craft people looking for inspiration... it's a nice collection.

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A free web service, which lets users pose questions and gather needed information from groups of any size and get back a single, organized response that can be used and shared among all members of the group. Think Evite mashed up for organizing. click the logo to see more. Read More...

click the pic to see the full panorama... it will probably load small, click it to see the whole thing. Read More...

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This is amazing advertising that McDonalds should be paying for. Read More...

Branding Tap water: A few months ago you could buy bottled tap water in some NY restaurant (with proceeds going to the UNICEF fund). I love the bottle design from the Tap Projec Read More...

Water in the Southern Hemisphere - by Ron Arad

A large sculptural rocking chair with a sinuous form, geometrically inserted in a sphere with a diameter of 160 cm. It is made by bending bundles of shiny 10 mm stainless steel tubing, a technique already applied for the walls of the Opera Hall of Tel Aviv (1994) and in the Ripple Chair made for the event OpenairDesign (Milan, April 2005). Read More...

That's the so-called "Processing Key" that unlocks the heart of every HD-DVD disk to date.

The copy protection technology used by Blu-ray discs has been cracked by the same hacker who broke the DRM technology of rival HD DVD discs last month. The coder known as muslix64 used much the same plain text attack in both cases. By reading a key held in memory by a player playing a HD DVD disc he was able to decrypt the movie been played and render it as an MPEG 2 file.

The latest Blu-ray hack was performed by muslix64 using a media file provided by Janvitos, through the video resource site Doom9, and applied to a Blu-ray copy of the movie Lord of War. In this case, muslix64 didn't even need access to a Blu-ray player to nobble the DRM protection included on the title.
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Both HD DVD and Blu-ray use HDCP (High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection) for playback display authentication and similar implementations of AACS (Advanced Access Content System) for content encryption.

The hack sidesteps, rather than defeats, the AACS encryption used as part of the content protection technology used by both next-generation DVD formats. The approach relies on obtaining a particular movie's unique "key" and can't therefore be trivially replicated to rip content across all titles encoded via a particular format, as tools like DVD Decryptor make easy with standard DVD titles.

muslix64 has however posted a 18KB tool that allows other to try their hand at extracting the keys of other Blu-ray Disc movies

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the Lomme Bed is not only shaped like a vessel from the future but has the technology to back it up. Light therapy is included in the package, as well as an integrated sound system that plugs into your iPod; Read More...

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Craig Finn (the singer) is the lovechild of Bruce Springsteen and Warren Zevon. I especially love it when he gets pissed off. Excellent guitar playing when it gets going. Read More...

Just feeling the videos this week... I love this band. So unexpected. Read More...

Will Oldham is a freaking crazy indie rock genius. He's like an autistic world weary banshee of loneliness. He performs and records as "Bonnie Prince Billy", Will Oldham, The Place Brothers and sometimes Superwolf. Read More...

video of this great song off their excellent album "Shine On". Nic Cester (the singer) wrote this for his father who died a couple years ago. Read More...

Put together by the masterful RX... this has been pushed around the web a lot, but I would feel terrible not mentioning it. And how appropriate. Read More...

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well done. who has time to make these? click play to watch. Read More...

Ah fan mash-ups... you make me laugh. This is a homoerotic montage of Kirk and Spock set to Nine Inch Nails "Closer" good stuff. Read More...

for some reason, Youtube won't let people embed this anymore, but you can click on the pic and see a 6 minute segment on how handmade wigs are created... pretty amazing. Read More...

the mix isn't great, but it's clever. I personally prefer Petra Hayden sings The Who sell out", but this is interesting. click the video to play. Read More...

another video mash-up by a fan. I'm not really into Harry Potter, but this vide is pretty funny. Click the pic to view it on YouTube. and now that I have looked, there are a disturbing number of Harry Potter Mashups on YouTube. Read More...

A nice step by step guide to creating HDR (High Definition Range) images in Photoshop using a single exposure. Click the pic for more. Read More...