|My latest column in NRC magazine on huggable pillows. Design Ross Menuez

|A Dutch girl called Lize is raising money for her new MacBook Pro. Send her your pic plus a little donation and she makes you

|Dutch airline KLM is following Virgin Galactic by offering non-astronauts an exploration into space. The first flights are to be made from a new cosmodrome

|At the end of this year America will have 1,000 body scanners at 65 airports around the USA. Some medical experts say the technology is unsafe

|Click here to hear the story of a couple of friends who made a 50 dollar instrument for their completely paralyzed graffiti artist friend Tempt

|Do not forget to get your Lanvin stuff next tuesday at 08:00 sharp. Store H&M

|It is made of those price-tag fasteners, this plastic ‘fur’ coat. It took 42 hours to embroider the fasteners in a herringbone pattern on a

|From the city of Rotterdam is this house, that has been designed with a great new kind of windows in the preserved façade and a glass

|A typical blog project, carpets constructed with every day materials. Reminds me of the excellent meat carpets by Belgian artist Wim Delvoye. Left is a

|Finally, the book by the world’s best graphic designer has been released. ‘I Wonder’ shows and describes Bantjes’ work through eccentric anecdotes and her harebrained ideas.

|An eye of extremities. Art Emilio Gomariz Via todayandtomorrow

|Billboard sculpture made of stainless steel rods at the USA-Canada border near Vancouver by Lead Pencil Studio: “… this permanently open aperture between nations works to frame nothing

|“I enjoy the freedom of just using my hands and ‘found’ tools. The energy and space around a material are as important as the energy

|This work was created by putting a snowball stained with a natural dye on paper and letting it melt. Art Andy Goldsworthy

|NYC’s marathon is one of the best-organized run events worldwide, with over 40,000 people taking part. Just training for weeks is not enough to finish a

|As I ran just half a marathon at the Dutch island Terschelling last weekend, in New York 45,344 runners faced the entire 42 kilometers; 99

|Want a mask like this of your face or that of a loved one, for just $ 10? Found at www.thatsmyface.com

|My parents singing for me at 00:00 in a little Italian chapel at my birthday, October 31st. Photo Hans Arnold

|Neptune, perfectly embodied, in the summer 2010 issue of Vogue Homme International. Photographer Jack Pierson. Model Tony Ward

|At my 50th birthday I bought the Fall Winter issue of Vogue Homme starring aged men. The ever growing ageism is becoming hot in the fashion industry. In tough