I like being surprised. And that is why I am looking forward to seeing Sarah Sze's "Corner Plot" installed at 59th and 5th Avenue. (ms)

I enjoyed reading these casual and frank interviews with a few of the inventors / designers of modern electronic icons. (ms)

Lately I have been obsessed with obnoxiously oversized food and Pimp My Snack is my latest find. It is complete with instructions. (ms)

This is a real wrong number message left on a friend's cellphone last year. (rbm)

It looks like my mom is not alone in her irrational (my word) hatred of that tasty herb cilantro. And what does cilantro taste like? (ms)

Cardboard cutouts help get more public pottys in NYC. (sm)

This Century 21 ad really confuses me and I'm not the only one. (ms)

Just when I thought I had a handle on Google's effects on the internet, then I read this. (ms)

Brandmarker is an interesting experiment evaluating brand power by making Austrians draw a total of twelve logos (nine international, three typically European) from memory. (rbm)

From my favorite landscape architecture blog comes more spectacular forms grown in petri dishes. (ms)

Apparently it does take a songwriter to compose a viable song. (ms)