A list, from the man who read the Oxford English Dictionary, of his favorites.

An example, he says, is “petracore,” a word for the scent that rises from pavement after rain has begun to fall. “It’s a beautiful smell,” Shea said. “I’ve always loved that smell, when it first starts raining.”

I also liked debag – to strip the pants from a person.

I got a lot of push-back from on the original design, which was pretty dull(just the laptop). It’s a little trendy, but it makes a shockingly boring subject (new web pages) a little more entertaining.

My 30th birthday is next month. Nothing says ‘I care’ like a Design Within Reach Airstream.

Just sayin…

Maybe I’m just cranky from too much vodka-tonic, but it really looks like they’re ice-skating in hell. Or maybe a Frank Kapra version of Mordor.

Bicycle Sport Shop combines two of my favorite things: bikes and coffee. Having finished up the bicycle portion of my shopping adventure, I was en route to the coffee sector when something very shinny caught my eye (as people who know me can attest something that distracts me form coffee is fairly impressive).The Langster is a limited edition single speed (only 1000 of each were made), with a reversible back wheel that you can flip over and used as a fixed-wheel if you are so-inclined. Specialized also did really a cool thing here – instead of naming their bikes by some obscure system of three-letter-acronyms, they personalized each model to a city, right down to the custom paint job, with matching chain color in the case of my favorite the London (complete with tube-map).It’s a damn good thing they didn’t have one in my size…

Every so often, some quirky little piece comes together that I get really attached too, like this postcard/invite, with a shout out to my architecture days. Good things.

I traded these guys a website for a custom steel road frame. The load times are a littel slow, but otherwise I’m pleased.

Creative people have to believe in the value of their work. If you don’t have any belief then you can’t give anything – designing is an act of giving, and a belief in the value of the work fuels the desire to express something. (via swissmiss)

Not sure about the last time I was actually able to give said gift at a job (or if that’s even possible in most modern design jobs), but the full article/manifesto is interesting.