The Cannes Lions site has posted this year’s winners. Go ahead, waste an afternoon watching brilliant commercials from around the world.

A great photo-essay from the NYT about a Tea House in Hangzhou.

I don’t usually post geeky stuff, but this article details how Firefox cleverly circumvented a security hazard. Great design!

The History of the Button blog has a bunch of good posts about this common design element, including this one on the fake crosswalk buttons in NYC and this one on a really cool new peripheral (watch the video).

MIT has a really ambitious research underway for renewable energies. Speaking of which, these solar towers look really promising. Of course, all of this could be a moot point if these guys are legit.

The NYT on whether movie stars impact movie revenues. The answer seems to be no.

Peter Callesen’s paper art is really beautiful and imaginative.

That is because you crazy, a great ad for Ikea.

Great series of library pictures.

Bruce Schneier has an interesting and intelligent take on the British liquid-bomb plot, namely that our reaction is causing nearly as much fear and disruption as an attack would have.