Nice, simple bit of hardware hacking here. Take one spare laptop hard drive and one Moleskine notebook. Combine.

The best hip hop to come of the UK so far this year. Follow the link, listen to Thou Shalt Always Kill, then go buy it from the iTunes Store. Whilst you’re there, buy the video too. It’s brilliant.

This is a reminder for myself to read this later: John Grant of Greenormal writing for Mediacat about encouraging and nuturing the ‘coincidence’ of a design or strategy benefitting both the world (or environment) and the profit margins.

Absolutely gorgeous porcelain fruitbowl-substitutes entered into a DesignBoom competition. Hang your fruit on the wall. I like these an awful lot.

Beermat plus hole equals chopstick holder. Great thinking: simple and innovative. Spotted by Nokia’s Jan Chipchase.

Allan Chochinov of Core77 publishes a simple, if a little po-faced, manifesto on WorldChanging.

A beautiful piece from Sunday’s Washington Post, pointed out by Joshua Ellis at Zen Archery. One of the world’s greatest violinists poses as a busker at a subway station, playing a genuine Stradivarius. Nobody notices. Why?

Rosemarie Fiore works in the realm of systems art: defining rules which then create her art pieces. These long exposure photographs of old videogame screens in action are things of great abstract beauty.

John Moore at Brand Autopsy publishes his findings. A direct (if slow) response to Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz’ leaked memo earlier this year.

A great piece of product design. A simple plastic bracket into which a Wii remote and nunchuck clip, to produce a realistic looking and feeling pistol. Great for shooting games, but only if the games in question are built accordingly.

Found via Dino Demopoulos at Chroma: Dole are now including a three-digit ‘farm number’ on every banana’s sticker. Type that number into this website, and you get to see your banana’s farm of origin. Traceable and transparent.