This Japanese kitchen have built a deep-fat fryer where the boiling oil floats on top of a tank of cool water. The water is full of goldfish. The goldfish eat the crumbs of food that drop through from the boiling oil. Amazing.

Applying solid typographic rules to computerised musical notation. An intriguing speciality.

Information Architects Japan are right about everything from points one to nine. Point ten needs a little work, I think.

Andrew Plotkin’s diagrammatic approach to foodstuffs is very cute. If the typographic treatment wasn’t so abysmal, I’d probably buy a poster.

Dan Taylor critiquing favicons—those little 16×16-pixel icons that go alongside your website and sit in people’s bookmark lists.

A very nice treatment. ‘Undo’ wrinkles.

Play Monopoly ‘live’ in Central London via this website, with 18 black cabs as the playing pieces. The ‘Mett the cabbies’ link is a nice touch.

Jane McGonigal on her pet project: Harnessing the inherent crowdsourcing potential of massively multiplayer online games to solve real-world scientific problems. Interesting reading.

Lego sweets. Amazing. Why is it that sweets are the only type of food where product designers get to play?

Sarah Rich at Worldchanging writes a good, clear roundup on the state of play with industries moving towards zero-waste economies. This is the future. Industrial systems are what changes the world, not consumer recycling or energy saving.

Must remember to read this lot later. Joe Lamantia presents a reading list for designers needing to know more about thinking in systems terms.

Marcus Brown over at Noisy Decent Graphics gives a good, clear basic introduction for graphic designers in the UK on how to find and work with environmentally conscious printers.

Short-term memory dump. These German digital canvas printers are bloody amazing.

“When I (Simon Veksner) was at Saatchi’s, if ever I showed a headline to Simon Dicketts, he would automatically get out his finger and start covering up words. The idea is that if you don’t miss a word you’ve covered over, then you don’t need it.”

For OS X users: A Dashboard widget adaptation of Eno & Schmidt’s classic Oblique Strategies cards. All four editions.

John Moore at Brand Autopsy has a brilliant series of posts (collaboratively with Paul Williams at Idea Sandbox) on addressing all of the problems Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz listed in his recent leaked memo. Scroll to the end of the linked post for a contents list, leading to each piece of their discussion.

I quite fancy attending this. The brainchild of Russell Davies, whom you can find at www.russelldavies.com

This is brilliant. A solid, weighty, rare earth magnet wrapped in friendly silicon, shaped to stick to your fridge and act as a clip. Push on the top end to unclip, let it go to spring it back flush. Lovely.

This is terrifying to anyone who has read Jeff Noon’s Pixel Juice collection of short stories, and specifically the one entitled Solace. It’s an invention so spookily similar to that story’s focus, that it’s hard to believe.

John Thackara can be a bit hectoring in tone when comes to the written word, but he makes a good point here: It’s folly to apply Western models of connectivity to the rest of the world.