My experience of kolaches, the crazy delicious doughnut-like pastries brought to the central US by Slavic immigrants, is limited to a couple of places in Fredericksburg, TX. But there doesn't… Read the rest of the article: Make mine Kolache

This prize-winning entry in a Norwegian design competition proposes an elegant idea for the small town of Ã…ndalsnes, which describes itself as "The Gateway To The Fjords." (Full disclosure: I… Read the rest of the article: Now roll me to the fjords

I'm not a greedy man, or an unreasonable one. (Nor, for that matter, am I insane. I'm NOT.) So when I sat down to place a monetary value on the… Read the rest of the article: All I want for Christmas is the $62,000 Twitter owes me

The merry pranksters at New York's MTA are turning the holiday season into a kooky, trip-your-brains-out, you've-fallen-down-a-wormhole, what-in-the-name-of-all-that's-holy-is-happening-to-you time-travel freakout by putting a vintage 1958 GM bus into service on… Read the rest of the article: Ghost Bus spotted in Manhattan

I live in a warm place now, but I retain a vestigial — well, let's call it a respect for cold weather. So these handsome little art cards by designer… Read the rest of the article: Warm Heads for Christmas

So here's another thing the stinkin' future promised us and never delivered, he thought bitterly: A computerized pub, ca. 1965. It doesn't look all that futuristic from the vantage point… Read the rest of the article: Dial 9… for fun!

I've tangled with every GTD app there is. I've wrestled with setting repeating tasks in iCal. I didn't know it, at least not beyond a certain inchoate longing, but what… Read the rest of the article: Do one thing. Do it really well. Repeat.

God, I love food blogs. I love all sorts of food blogs, from the hip and sensible to the bizarrely specific. But I think the one I love most is… Read the rest of the article: More sumac, please

Nick DeWolf was one of those passionate, indefatigable amateurs who were just made to live on via the Internet. He wasn't an amateur at his chosen profession, which was engineering;… Read the rest of the article: Nick DeWolf's hungry eye

Today's Kooky Koncept Design is the Foki, a "Floor Cleaner Shoe" from Adika Titut Triyugo of Institute of Technology Bandung in Indonesia. The rechargeable Foki has tiny cleaning devices on… Read the rest of the article: And now, the floor-cleaning shoe

I take a perverse pride in the fact that this, the worst building-demolition video in the history of the genre, is set in my hometown. It documents the attempted destruction… Read the rest of the article: LIVE RIGHT NOW: The eight-month demolition of The Spectrum

Londonist slugs its post on this absolutely nutso piece from the the Daily Mail Hitler Planned UFO Attack On London, Claims Newspaper, while the paper itself goes no further than… Read the rest of the article: Did Hitler plan UFO attacks on London? (No. Not really.)

Hannah Arendt famously argued for "the banality of evil"; British photographer James Davies makes a powerful case for the banality of violence in this Flickr set documenting the very ordinary… Read the rest of the article: Man murdered in street shooting

File this one under More Krazy Koncept Products: Newspapers, which are made from wood, are themselves used to make "wood" in this project from a Dutch design house, Vij5. Or,… Read the rest of the article: The future of paper, or possibly wood, or both

Six Flags New Orleans locked its gates as Hurricane Katrina bore down on The Crescent City in 2005, and never unlocked them again. At least it hasn't yet — with… Read the rest of the article: Six Flags New Orleans

What's that show with the murder cops? "The First 48"? Yeah, that one. You call that true crime — a bunch of guys in Dacron shirts driving around Minneapolis in… Read the rest of the article: Murder pamphlets

Geoff Manaugh of BLDGBLOG speculates on architectural anomalies, unlikelihoods, and what-ifs in a way that effectively liberates building design from the limits of mortar and steel — and, not for… Read the rest of the article: The Access Maze

This is nerd porn of the purest uncut variety: A live webcam stream of the Mars rover "Curiosity" being built in a clean room at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in… Read the rest of the article: Watching Curiosity grow

With the possible exception of the Unbreakable Umbrella, an umbrella/weapon that was blogged on Boing Boing Gagets a couple of years ago, there hasn't been a significant advance in umbrella… Read the rest of the article: A home for your bumbershoot

My friend Noel Kerns likes to crawl around in abandoned buildings, light them up and photograph them. (I've written about him on Boing Boing, here.) The results are lovely, and… Read the rest of the article: Abandoned bowling alleys