Affluenza: March 5

I'd love to see a Vinn diagram of "wants well-designed minimal dining room furniture" and "wants a pool table":

http://www.fusiontables.com/

(Sometimes it can be hard to parse my comments on these things, so let me be a bit less opaque: I think these are pretty awesome.)

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Finally, a tote bag that lets everyone know you're a l33t h4x0r AND a total badass that the world better not mess with:

http://nexus404.com/Blog/2008/02/29/cool-binary-code-tote-bag-suits-geeks-with-serious-attitude-issues/

This is probably the most pitiful thing I've ever posted here.

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Speaking of tote bags, you guys know I'm not the biggest Stephen Colbert fan...the man himself is fine, but his fan club annoys the everliving shit out of me. However, I saw this last night at Barnes & Noble--uh, I mean a funky yet charming local independent bookstore!--and it cracked me up:

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Stephen-Colbert-Natural-Canvas-Tote-Bag/Promotional-Concepts/e/9780641891748

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At first these Chocolate Pencils seem sorta dumb, but they're actually pretty whimsical and clever.

http://www.roadsidescholar.com/2008/02/29/cool-and-clever-chocolate-pencils/

Sure, you could do the same thing with a Hershey's bar and a potato peeler, but who are you...Alton Brown? Nice tiki shirt, you fucking nerd.

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Karl Lagerfeld's utterly redonk carousel set for Chanel's fall 2008 show:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/29/style/rchanel.php

http://www.papermag.com/blogs/2008/02/chanel_carousel_best_set_ever.php

Mickey Boardman is a professional writer. He got paid to write that.

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Clay Moulton's master thesis is the Gravia lamp, an LED powered by gravity, which just took second place in the 2008 Greener Gadgets Design Competition:

http://www.core77.com/competitions/greenergadgets/projects/4306/

Nice catch, blanco niño, but too bad your ass got SAAAAAAACKED:

http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/03/03/stop-press-pixie-dust-unsuitable-for-household-lighting/

http://pesn.com/2008/02/19/9500471_Gravity_Lamp/

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It's A Log You Idiots, part of a continuing series:

http://designstudio.whatiftheworld.com/products/the-euco-bench/

http://www.designlush.com/main.php?id=9_1&subid=2

http://www.showlifestyle.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=8&products_id=112

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Chiasso's Baroque Bathroom Scales:

http://www.chiasso.com/store/item.aspx?ItemId=54141

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Stamp the image of the Virgin Mary on your toast:

http://www.worldwidefred.com/holytoast.htm

[For those of you keeping track, this is not technically a toaster concept.]

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Gmail Soap. For some reason.

http://interiordesignroom.blogspot.com/2008/03/gmail-soap-available-in-russia.html

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Outdoor Themometer by Rosendahl:

http://www.emmohome.com/35610.html

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Neat article on organizing your bookshelves by color instead of, say, usefulness:

http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2008/01/25/organizing-bookshelves-by-color/

Since when did COLOURlovers have articles?

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Molly sends us this pretty incredible spread of wedding cakes that will make you feel bad about your lifestyle:

http://www.brides.com/brides/cakes

We particularly like the cake with the baroque filigree.

Dixie Gas wants us to know that she is totally in love with Roberto Cavalli's Spring 2008 ready-to-wear collection:

http://www.style.com/fashionshows/collections/S2008RTW/complete/thumb/RBTOCVLL

I couldn't agree more. Ladies Of Affluenza, you have some shopping to do.

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Julius Popp's water printer:

http://nickpapageorgia.blogspot.com/2008/03/julius-popp.html

Blah blah blah: No, Julian, It's not a "metaphor for the incessant flood of information we are exposed to" it's just a really cool installation.

I'm not being snarky here...it doesn't have to about anything other than blowing people's minds. If your goal as an artist is to make people go WTF? instead of NFW!, then you are a lazy failure and should be ashamed.