On things I want

Tandem umbrella by Marc Owens.

On things I want

The dove grey lace up "men's" shoes of my dreams. by LD Tuttle, from Lamb's Ear Shoes

Video: Photograph of Jesus

from CR blog

Article: The NYT 2008 Year in Ideas

The 8th Annual Year in Ideas

Welcome back to the Year in Ideas issue. For the eighth year in a row, we have compiled an alphabetical digest of ideas, from A to Z Start Reading (almost), that helped make the previous 12 months, for better or worse, what they were.

Article: Beer, bread, coffee better than in the good old days.

Makes me homesick."
Represent

Article: Obama makes pick for energy chief, sources say

President-elect Barack Obama is likely to name Steven Chu, a physicist who runs the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, as his energy secretary, three Democratic officials close to the transition told CNN.

Represent.

Article: Lard Sculptures

Only one thing comes to mind...why?

Army Gurkha chefs in Hampshire have been recognised for making eye-catching sculptures - made from lard.

Article: Black Holes

According to Dr Robert Massey, of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), the results suggest that galaxies form around giant black holes in the way that a pearl forms around grit.
from the BBC

Article: Birth, death and shopping

The rise and fall of the shopping mall
Dec 19th 2007
From The Economist print edition

America now has some 1,100 enclosed shopping malls, according to the International Council of Shopping Centres. Clones have appeared from Chennai to Martinique. Yet the mall's story is far from triumphal. Invented by a European socialist who hated cars and came to deride his own creation, it has a murky future. While malls continue to multiply outside America, they are gradually dying in the country that pioneered them.