These guys sell home electronics and furniture designed by Dieter Rams. I would like to own pretty much every single item on offer, but which one would be on top of my wishlist? This Braun radio DIY kit.

Boing Boing linked the Howtoons how-to guides for kids and adults alike. Such as this Visual Communication guide, a godsend for someone as inept at drawing with pen and paper as me.

There should be more things like this. It really pisses me off the fact that despite the exponential growth in access to information, there’s a thorough lack of great explainers in many areas. I wonder, for instance, if I could have learned any degree of programming without the kid-friendly ZX Spectrum programming books I read back in the day. I probably wouldn’t.

Cory Doctorow has a new novel out called Makers, which you can, as usual, download for free from his website.

I have a colossal number of pages to read as part of my Master’s thesis investigations, but I’ll read this as soon as I feel I need a break from those readings.

Perhaps not on the same plateau as Miroslav Tichy, the Czech that builds cameras from stuff found in the trash, but still amazing: Kwanghun Hyun is a Korean designer who builds very functional-looking cameras from scratch. Be sure to check his portfolio.