Brilliant, inspiring product design. Single-use barbecue charcoal, packaged in a recycled pulp container that acts as firelighter and includes a ‘chimney’ hole to encourage fast, hot burning before it disappears.

Clay Shirky gets to the crux of our current social state over at WorldChanging. Fundamental change in society frees up people’s time, which they fill with nonsense at first: Gin in 1700s England, TV in our recent history.

Just in case anyone reading is interested, I recently put a bunch books from my design-related bookshelves up for sale on Amazon Marketplace. Link in the title.

The new Weiden + Kennedy offices in London sport some beautifully economical toilet sign icons.

Witty typographic screenprints for Apple geeks, using common shortcut commands within well-worn phrases.