Sketch furniture may not have any practical applications (yet), but the idea of drawing furniture in thin air and printing the physical objects is just amazingly cool.

Gladwell on the formula for making perfect movies. Speaking of movie formulas, the Netflix Prize offers a million dollars to the team that substantially improves their movie recommendations. The data of course reveals lots of fun facts, such as these lists of loved, hated and contentious movies.

Markus Hofer has some really fun pieces. Along with the above pictured Room Corner, Light Cone and Juice are personal favorites. The site’s in German, but the pictures speak for themselves.

Casey Templeton was named College Photographer of the Year in 2005. I particularly like his rugby and chair aerobics series. Thanks to Kiley McEvoy for the link.

Disco, a new OS X app, quite literally burns your CD. A brilliant touch.

The printer as social letterbox, or what if you could print stuff for your friends. As much as I hate wasting more paper, there’s something about getting a physical printout (also, this could be a great way to recycle all the one-sided printouts lying around your office).

The BenQ Black Box is a beautiful design for the ultimate mobile device. BusinessWeek has some insightful commentary. So simple, so versatile — will someone please build this?

Lot’s of aurora pictures: timelapse, from space, with a volcano.

Jason Kottke has a fun little post on Line Rider, a new online game/art form. This video is great.