Philippe Starck knocks 'em dead at TedTalk 2007. And all the time I'm watching, I'm thinking, "is this possibly how Eddie Izzard comes over in France?". Laughs, yes, and pathos too, but somewhere, deep beneath the surface, some rather stimulating ideas.

Here's the introduction to a rather nice reader's story that Andrew Tobias put on his blog:

This past Christmas Day I was home cooking for my husband when I saw a news report about a grass roots organization operating here in Atlanta, the Global Soap Project. It was founded by a man named D...

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I just opened my second 10kg bag of Bongiovanni¹ type 0 high protein organic bread flour. Total cost of flour plus some other goodies, almost €34.75. I decided that the bread stash could reimburse me for its raw materials, which it now has without too much pain. Not enough dough to give up the da...

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Living by the precepts of Getting Things Done requires sorting things into one of four piles: Delete, Do, Delegate, Defer. Which is fine, as far as it goes, although you do need to stay on top of Delegate and Defer. The problem is that Google, and in particular GMail and Reader, make it so very ea...

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“People often assume that I must be some extremely moral person because I didn’t take advantage of the lottery,” he says. “I can assure you that that’s not the case. I’d simply done the math and concluded that beating the game wasn’t worth my time.”

Wired's story Cracking the Scratch Lottery ...

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