Is the design world's embrace of domestic iconicity a harbinger of the coming Singularity?

After fifteen years I've finally found the perfect writer's machine in the new 11.6-inch MacBook Air. It fuses together both the best software and hardware of which a writer could ever dream, while boasting all of the slender and effortless portability of a composition journal. It is a writer's terminal in the purest sense: with its excellent battery life, ephemeral weight, satisfying keyboard and instant-on capabilities, the new MacBook Air is perfectly suited to be the nexus into the inner chaos of my own thoughts, feelings, hang-ups, pretensions and emotions as a blank page. So why isn't writing any easier?

In Boston, clouds and swirling snow deprived us of the sight of a blood-red lunar eclipse on the eve of solstice. The two phenomena have nothing to do with one another astronomically; but as a member of a species drawn to pattern like moths to lamplight, I felt the urge to seek an open patch in the clouds, even at three o'clock in the morning�to no avail.

Eyes in the darkness and a snowstorm in reverse, players in an ecological chamber play.

From Steve Martin to the shield of Achilles, considering the relationship of image and text in a networked age.

A great series of videos made by the chemistry department at the University of Nottingham in England�one for each of the elements in the periodic table, 118 in all. It's full of insights�and it will have you wondering about the activation energy of professor Martyn Poliakoff's hair.

A week or so ago, an amazingly striking (no pun intended) photograph of Tiger Woods shooting a golf ball straight at a photographer went through-the-roof viral within a matter of hours. Almost just as quickly, one bug-eyed mustachioed man smoking a cigar in the very same photo overlapped the original popularity of the actual theme of the picture. This man ...

Much like the Weebles that wobble, but don’t fall down, the roly-poly light will never stay flat on the ground, no matter how hard you try or how badly you beat it. My other lamps never really put up a fight, which was fun at first and made me feel pretty macho, but got pretty boring relatively quick. Not only ...

Natural lighting. Vader’s not a fan. Over at the Rebelscum Forum, TheMadman was selling these airbrushed mini-blinds for $75 or best offer. Whichever came first. The forum entry was from May, so the blinds have probably been long gone, but it’s unclear if they ever sold or not. So, what the hell, it’s worth a shot right? The blinds themselves ...

This reminds me of an article in The Onion: Increasing Number of Americans Unable to Point Out Map. “Not only did a majority of people just stare blankly ahead, but nearly half pointed to nearby desk lamps in their attempts to guess correctly,” Sometimes, I heart stupid people. Link