1. Bubble gin and tonic - I’m usually not down for avant garde culinary stuff as it tends to be pretentious (and navel gazing). But this idea is brilliant, even if I’m not dying to try it. More on spherical encapsulation as used in molecular gastronomy.
2. Urbane Jacket - What a beautiful jacket. The lines and material used here are fantastic. I could give up eating for two months, right?
3. Chiddy Bang - Opposite Of Adults [video] - Philadelphia hip hop duo Chiddy Bang (Chidera Anamege and Xaphoon Jones, met at Drexel Univ.) deliver a fun, fresh and amusing video from their new album. I love the bed-jumping scene.
4. Beer in good spirits - An curious little story about Tom Griffin, the man who logs 50,000 miles a year delivering oak barrels around the country to all the top microbreweries. This is the man single-handedly responsible for helping fuel the cask-aging movement in beer. Thanks, Tom.
5. Apple’s patent for a “breathing status LED indicator” - What a kick ass example of their attention to detail in design. They patented the slowly ‘breathing’ light for when their computers are in sleep mode. It’s set to the perfect rate of human breathing (12-20 breathes per minute) to achieve a psychologically pleasing effect. This has always been one of my favorite incidental details of their products.

Another week gone by without a ‘regular’ post.

1. eInk watch - I’m not sold on the design of the watch, but the technology has me intrigued. The eInk display looks to be a neat application in timepieces.
2. 35 lessons in 35 years - From the experience design director at Adaptive Path. Worth the read for a few little nuggets.
3. Jonah Hill and Elmo discuss mustaches - Not much more else to say, really.
4. Two Eye Wool Boat Shoe - I question what is becoming of me when I find boat shoes to be well-designed. But for some reason these wool Sperry’s caught my eye.
5. How to Be Alone - Fun little video by Andrea Dorfman. Poetry, music, motion graphics. Stuff like this is what makes the internet so great, and why legislation that threatens net neutrality is horrifically dangerous.

1. iPad + beer +hacking = awesome - The engineers at Yelp hacked together an iPad and a kegerator for some fun.
2. Skate Park after dark - Otherworldly photos of a skatepark painted in light.
3. Serious Eats - Rarely do I feature an entire website on FTILFF, but I’m continually amazed at how good the content coming out of this site is. I monitor a lot of food blogs but Serious Eats consistently has the most number of recipes that I end up flagging to try.
4. Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943 - These photos of America during the depression era are amazing. Or if you like, how about photos of Europe from 1906?
5. ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’ by Viktor E. Frankl -Said to be among the most influential works of psychiatric literature since Freud, Frankl (a survivor of Nazi camps) puts together a moving narrative that ultimately drives home the ideas of logotherapy. (Unlike Freud, who focuses on sexual impulses as the root of human behavior, logotherapy identifies man’s deepest desire as the search for meaning and purpose). A good read.