Gaming culture meets graffiti meets vernacular video insanity. Video after the jump.

A film promoting the European linen industry offers a rapturous look at machinery spinning straw into gold. Video after the jump.

In place of the brave new world of design fiction, artists like Olafur Eliasson invite us to enter the instant Utopia of our own imaginations.

The lamp of wisdom, the light of reading�oh whatever; this reading lamp that doubles as a bookmark is a witty piece of design.

A mechanical computer for directing antiaircraft fire was at the heart of these brothers' pioneering computer-animated imagery.

Charlie Stross figures we're ready for a pendulum swing back in the direction of Sir Thomas More.

Remembering the influence of a teacher, critic, and thinker who brought the Web alive with ideas.

At five dollars for 99 pieces of the Darkest Classical Music ever written, it's easy to get into a symphonically nasty post-holiday funk.

An all-but-forgotten airborne car ferry glimpsed an alternative future of unwieldy luxury.

A web-based game simply and elegantly tests Julian Assange's theory of the power of networked secrecy.