I was just on Kevein Kelly’s Cool Tools blog, and he asked for suggestions on who to follow. I typed up a list in the comments of his post, and figured I’d share it here too. These are the most consistently interesting tweeters i’ve found: @pickover @bldgblog @pruned @johnfschneider @textism @johnmaeda @joguldi @timoreilly @jess7bennett @davewiner [...]

So my father once did a piece in which he made lead sculpture of the last meals of death row inmates. Now, there’s an online exhibition that asks you what your last meal would be before being put to death. You can participate here.

These are awesome little guidelines for making your life, your work, and your projects better. And they’re on the always blow-your-mind smart Overcoming Bias blog. Here’s the top 10, for a little taster. Go check out the whole list here. 1. Think of a typical day in the life of someone who’s been adapting to [...]

. Fantastic little video by Press Books/Harper Collins. Super smart way to use the web to communicate the awesomeness of print. And check out the making of the video here. Link from our homies at Iridesco.

Check out Murray Moss’s fantastic response to Micheal Cannell’s NY times article, Design Loves a Depression. Here’s a little taste: “Design tends to thrive in hard times,” says Mr. Cannell. No, it doesn’t. It tends to suffer, like any of the other humanistic disciplines. New ideas do not get championed or realized. Leadership turns to [...]

Take a moment to consider the purpose of jewelry from the perspective of cultural evolution. Jewelry enables people to demonstrate status, and so it appeals to human competitive self-interest. It’s a technology that serves culture by provoking ambition. Progress emerges when a population is ambitious. Obviously, this is hyper simplified, and human competition has some [...]

Happy 2009 everybody! Here’s hoping you have a super awesome year. So: long time readers of this here inspiration feed might remember the Megaphone. For about a year there was a little red box in the column to your right. Each day it said something provocative, inspirational, obvious, or stupid. Now, we’ve made a poster [...]