Jalopnik is reporting that the three people who died in a Palo Alto plane crash this morning were Tesla employees.

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I'm digging this children's room table, inspired by a dog. Creator Quentin de Coster came up with the design by asking a bunch of five year olds what shape they… Read the rest of the article: Table shaped like a dog

Look at this amazing interior designed by product design firm Nendo for a Tokyo mental health clinic. What appear to be doors are actually just wall paintings; doctors and patients… Read the rest of the article: New Tokyo mental health clinic interior filled with optical illusions

My friend, who is pregnant and also a big LOST fan, sent me a link to this Dharma initiative baby hatch maternity tee. LOST baby hatch maternity t-shirt

A Japanese architecture firm has come up with a neat idea for eco-friendly teahouses — it has little compartments in the surrounding wall that can generate heat via compost, so… Read the rest of the article: Modern teahouse heated with compost

It's called cherimoya, and — as the woman stocking the produce section at Rainbow reminded me twice — it's only in season, like, right now. On the outside, it looks… Read the rest of the article: Taste Test: Cherimoya

To celebrate Valentine's Day, NPR's All Songs Considered is featuring a bunch of breakup songs. My favorite breakup song is Take a Bow by Rihanna, what's yours?

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Under its "lap dances for Haiti" fundraising initiative, an Ohio strip club donated $1,000 towards a local charity that provides food and clothing for the relief effort. It probably would… Read the rest of the article: Toledo strip club gives "lap dances for Haiti"

A Munich-based design studio is proposing a unique alternative to washing clothes by hand in developing countries. Swirl is the concept design for a giant candy-striped ball that you can… Read the rest of the article: Launder clothes in a giant kickable candy-striped ball

This is part of a series of over 2,000 photos in the Flickr group called World of Rear Load Garbage Trucks. There's a group for front load garbage trucks, too.… Read the rest of the article: A place for rear load garbage truck fetishists

This lovely gray Enter key-shaped doormat is made of recycled crumbed rubber. Link

I wrote an article in the February issue of PopSci about visual cortex neuroscientists who are figuring out how to read our thoughts.

This is the first time I thought a Q&A about IM, press events, and World of Warcraft was really romantic: read Geeksugar's pre-V-day interview with tech journalists Ryan Block and… Read the rest of the article: Tech can be romantic: ask Ryan and Veronica

This sign, spotted by James Fallows of the Atlantic in the Marina district of San Francisco, reminds me of that scene in Clueless where Alicia Silverstone donates her skis to… Read the rest of the article: Donate your old yoga mat to Haiti

I had dinner at a Chinese restaurant in Tokyo last week where I was seated in front of some very interesting hanging art. It wasn't the only thing about the… Read the rest of the article: The penis shrine (NSFW)