Featuring David Sedaris’s unique blend of hilarity and heart, this new collection of keen-eyed animal-themed tales is entertaining as always.  Kill two birds with one stone by supporting the NPR fall funding drive and get the new Sedaris novel. Though the characters may not be human, the situations in these stories bear an uncanny resemblance [...]

Coat hangers. Sliced bread. Bottled water. These simple yet successful inventions are among the 101 chronicled in Anthony Rubino Jr.’s cleverly funny Why Didn’t I Think of That?. This 224-page book looks at the complexity behind these common goods, while offering up tons of questionably useful trivia and imparting some possibly needed advice to future [...]

“Symbology” or “the use of symbols.”  can be a muse which translates many different cultures and a strong design tool. These bookends by “New York” based Eric Janssen are beautiful, playful and “reasonably priced” to own. Made by MERLO-T in Switzerland. Go see it Digg Stumble Upon Del.icio.us Buzz

SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance. From the team that brought us Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner have returned with the follow up SuperFreakonomics. The original Freakonomics changed the way we look at the world.   SuperFreakonamics threatens to be  even more surprising, funnier, [...]