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Yet another piece on the Burj, this time at the BBC - expect a lot of these in 2009. Not much new here, save this quote about the building's as-yet-unrevealed final height: '"If you put the Empire ...

A small selection of general links. Right now, haddock is the place to go to catch up on all the holiday media splurges, like the BBC Today programme guest editors (who included Zaha Hadid) / 'An a...

Epic images from NASA's Cassini Probe / be careful what you wish for. Back in August 2007, icon magazine included a feature called Why design needs a recession / paintings by Dane Lovett / Have you...

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Detroit ruins: the Motor(less) City (via The Cartoonist) / a great visual essay on Chittagong, Bangladesh (via me-fi) / Cassette from my Ex (via domeuplaneta) / Most coveted Covers, a section of th...

Caustic Cover Critic on Odile Redon's enduring popularity amongst book cover designers. They also have a browse through our Pelican Project. We need to do a little bit more to this particular featu...

Boing Boing readers predict the next five years and beyond. Some are eccentric - 'More men will decide to opt for obedient robot wives to do cooking, cleaning and other stuff that will appeal to th...

Random links today / all about the Prandtl Glauert Singularity / books written and illustrated by Barbara Jones (1912-1978) / extracts from the archive of Manuel Raeder / objects by Amplifier / oth...

Vinyl, the documentary, the first part of Alan Zweig's entertaining 2000 documentary about vinyl obsessives / Loop are back / 11 Awesome Comic Book Hideouts / This New Ocean: The History of Space F...

A Second Tulip Mania, do the prices of contemporary art works represent a 'classic investment bubble'? 'In Russia [contemporary art sales] rose 2,365 per cent in five years (2000-05)'. Also, 'In Br...