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If you've gotta have a few pillows strewn about your sofa and loveseat, you might as well be able to express your individuality or crazy sense of style through them. 

While there are many that resemble pop culture characters and the like, it's the nice touch of shock seen below that I like best. Thanks to culturepopped.blogspot.com.

Apparently when there are over a billion people in a country I guess that, by process of elimination, that increases the total number of screwups. A giant panda at the Beijing zoo has now bitten the THIRD person who's fallen into its cage.

My favorite quote: "The panda is a national treasure, and I love and respect [him], so I didn't fight back," Zhang said. "The panda didn't let go until it chewed up my leg and its mouth was dripping with my blood."

You know what? I don't care if it's the Pope or President gnawing on my leg - I'm picking up the nearest rock or branch and going homerun derby on his skull.

1. We admitted we were powerless over blogging—that our opinions had become unmanageable... and then blogged about it.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than the web could restore us to sanity... and then Tweeted it.
3. Made a decision to turn our keyboard and our webcams over to the care of Baud as we understood It... and then Facebooked it.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves... and then MySpaced it.
5. Admitted to Baud, to ourselves, and to every other human being the exact nature of our wrongs... and then Pinged it.
6. Were entirely ready to have Baud remove all the defects of character mapping... and posted a pic of it on Flickr.
7. Humbly asked Baud to remove our fail whales... and waited for it to happen.
8. Made a list of all persons we had ReTweeted, and became willing to Friendfeed them all... and so did.
9. Made direct messages to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would deprive Followers... and so we Dugg their posts.
10. Continued to take social network inventory and when we were wrong promptly went to Seesmic and apologized... in 60 seconds.
11. Sought through webcam and keyboard to improve our conscious contact with Baud as we understood It, typing only for knowledge of Its knowledge of us and the power to carry that out... to Technorati.
12. Having had a virtual awakening as the result of page views, we tried to carry this message to luddite friends, and to practice such messaging in all our affairs... until something better comes along.

Lessig's tete-a-tete with Colbert on the evils of over-protectionist copyright practices.
 

Perhaps my favorite game for the Commodore 64 - Impossible Mission. While it may look clunky by today's standards, the "sprite" graphics moved very fluidly for an early 80s game. Relish in the low-bit glory that is IM: "Stay a while. STAY FOREVER!"
 

Apparently Loverboy didn't sing a song about Armadillo and Lizard DNA not splicing. I suppose if you just pop on some Barry White, they'll make sweet love and this will be the bastard lovechild... imagine this sneaking into your trailer home!

From a very cool ASICS ad that commissioned a very talented paper folder.

Origami In the Pursuit of Perfection from MABONA ORIGAMI on Vimeo

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Coolmaterial.com has just released a list they call Ultra-Minimalism: 19 Cool Products That Are Almost Impossible to Use. Included are toilets, tables, mugs, watches and other assorted basic sundry items that have become stylized to the point of the fanciful to the unrecognizable to the plain unusable.

Judge yourself. I personally think the Malevich-inspired Das Keyboard Ultimate is a bit too minimalist for my tastes.

Why does this strike me like when my dad first said "I bought a cordless screwdriver" and I replied "Haven't they been cordless for centuries". Panasonic now wants you to buy a fax machine to essentially do email. With smartphones and internet messaging devices of all sizes, it make me wonder why someone would want to buy something the size of a fax machine to receive an email on. Can't people finally get behind the scanner/pdf process yet?

You can read about it here if your Japanese is good or here if it's old reliable English you crave. If not, you can take solace in the fact that if you haven't sent a fax in years, and wonder why people still do, you're really not missing out by shaking free of the early adoption on this one.