[The directors of the Matrix go very strange in this film based on a cartoon](http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/speedracer/trailer1a/). The style of this looks superb. I think it'll be a huge flop,…
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[Try installing this floating chair](http://gizmodo.com/346269/hoverit-lounger-relaxation-through-levitation). I'd love to know what this feels like to sit on - it's hard to imagine what it would be like. I also…
[A spice gun](http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/05/the-spice-gun-asks-do-you-feel-hungry-punk/). This would definitely make cooking more fun!
[The vaguely menacing Curta mechanical calculator](http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/05/hisgadgetoric-the-curta-mechanical-calculator-peppers-our-eyes/). Beautiful design, but there's something about it that makes it look a lot like a gun of some kind.
[A survival kit in a barrel](http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/02/20/bedu-emergency-shelt.html). Slightly more sensible than the furniture in a crate from last week.
I was struck by a [really interesting post](http://playthisthing.com/game-criticism-why-we-need-it-and-why-reviews-arent-it) by [Greg Costiykan](http://playthisthing.com/) on the difference between reviews and criticism, and the absence of real criticism of computer games at…
[Starbucks helps independent coffee shops, rather than killing them](http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/01/coffee_boost.php). Nativist views (of which the anti-chain thing is one example) are just out of step with the real world,…
[No Country for Old Men](http://www.exasperatedcalculator.com/archives/2008/01/movie-review-no-country-for-old-men/) wins for 2007. Well deserved.
[Really retro - like 12th century Russian](http://www.hiero.ru/2024553). I love the idea of doing these as religious woodcuts. There are a lot more of these if you look in…
[The strange (and wonderful) behaviour of glass](http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2008/02/shattered_glass.php). I'd never heard of this one before - although I bet it's a perennial hit at the Christmas parties at the…