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Unless you grew up in the muds of Mono Lake, you had better be careful opening that box.

A whimsical and elegant printing block for Chinese characters that explores the enduring puzzle of writing.

We've met the shadow biosphere, and it is us.

Kevin Bacon's ad for the Logitech Revue reminds us that with personality in the cloud, we're all unwitting doppelg�ngers now.

We've discovered an earlier version of the redesigned Gawker's promotional video narrated by "infotainer" and business-card guru Joel Bauer. Gawker: it doesn't fit in a Rolodex.

Transmission of technological palimpsests from the Age of Rock and Roll.

it can be difficult to find genuinely useful apps for content creation of any kind. Shrink a powerful sampling keyboard down to iPhone size, and maybe you've got an answer.

Eyes in the darkness and a snowstorm in reverse, players in an ecological chamber play.

This animation begins with a clinically marvelous evocation of an insect's perspective of the forest floor. And then it gets odd and unsettling. Video after the jump.

An elegant new site presents the radio transcripts of early NASA missions in a textual dramatization.