Try installing this floating chair.
I’d love to know what this feels like to sit on – it’s hard to imagine what it would be like. I also wonder what kind of magnets you’d need to have in order to sell this safely in America.
This would definitely make cooking more fun!
The vaguely menacing Curta mechanical calculator.
Beautiful design, but there’s something about it that makes it look a lot like a gun of some kind.
Slightly more sensible than the furniture in a crate from last week.
Starbucks helps independent coffee shops, rather than killing them.
Nativist views (of which the anti-chain thing is one example) are just out of step with the real world, because they assume a zero sum world. The base insight of Adam Smith and Ricardo is that we’re not in a zero sum world. This is just one example.
No Country for Old Men wins for 2007. Well deserved.