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Summer started yesterday, time to treat each other a little better. Super sweet newspaper statues. Viva la printed media. The best house in Omaha. This is what the inside of toys look like. Squid Capsule would be a great name…

Have you seen the new London bus design? What about now? Are we really going to see a Catcher in the Rye film due to a tax loop-hole? Hurray for the National Design Awards! Hurray for them! Mapping out NYC’s…

On the evolution of the World Cup ball. Did you know that Moscow’s metro map has been redesigned? Important stuff. Here’s your minimalist Japanese architecture for the day. Self replicating digital life.

I’m sorry guys, this is just the sort of thing I’m into right now. It’s time to talk about the ecosystems of dead whales. Solar energy-converting sunglasses let you look like an asshole AND save the environment! I love you…

Looking for a job? Perhaps you’d like to be a fake Chinese businessman. Caterpillars all pretending to be snakes and such. Dang man! I-swear-this-isn’t-an-Onion-article of the day: Ozzy Osbourne’s geonome to be mapped to ascertain why he is alive. Tree…

Why the internet exists reasons #3,657-58: vintage NASA art and jellyfish photography. Oh hey perpetual storytelling apparatus, how are you? (Warning: foreign language link) I can’t decide if I hate or love this twitter inspired street art. A scientific look…

Hidden posters discovered in the Notting Hill tube stop. (Hurray!) Important question du jour: Are smarter people actually more likely to kill themselves? This is all in French, but that doesn’t make the pictures of Parisian street art any less…

Before they are gone forever, Mission Mission points us to this look back at the SF Muni Fastpass. The great dying. Its been a while since I’ve linked to beautiful vintage matchboxes. This shoe is very old (and Armenian). Department…

Look, NO ONE is above otter babies. Beware the contact high five; the dictionary of obscure sorrows. Hipster chicken coops. Surviving 1980s NYC graffiti. A little book design porn for you; got to keep this joint classy you know?

San Francisco crime as topographical maps. The Geotagger’s World Atlas. Tartovsky’s polaroids (you’re welcome). The children of lesbians are smarter than you. It has always been my dream to win a design competition for a luxury bug hotel.

Photosynthesis car is a pretty neat idea, you know? Competitive ferret-legging. Mike Wirth has your daily dose of infographics. On Milan’s new circular metro line (true story: I got in a big argument with a dude on the street today…