Fuego Fanzine, a new publication with a flying saucer theme / images from Design for the other 90%, plus associated review / Patricia - Vanishing Mother, a photo series by Ellen Jantzen / Grafik Magazine has a new website and blog / spun with spider silk / ride the Magic Highway (1958) / Where Warcraft and I began, and why Warcraft matters, Tom Chatfield on the fifth anniversary of the game /

Lego's advent calendar, like Muji's before it illustrate the growing fashion for using this seasonal device as a way of spooling out 25 days worth of product (even branching out onto magazine covers. See also Mighty Goods' advent calendar round-up from last year. The winner is undoubtedly Playmobil, which seems to have mastered the art of blending the religious iconography of the calendar with the strictly secular world of its toys.

Question Mark Question Mark Question Mark, via an especially cynical me-fi. Related, Found Sounds / all you need to know: How the H1N1 vaccine is made, Kottke gets all in-depth and ultra-informative / map: the UK's greatest driving roads / another fine blog post, This Means Something, Fantastic Journal on Close Encounters of the Third Kind (wikipedia).

Boars and Fury, a tumblr / inMexico, a weblog / Mikko Canini / The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to "The Office" / A Ravilious and Bawden Blog, part of the magnificent Mainstone Press / Y Mag, architecture magazine and weblog / SLAB Magazine, 'The Heuristic Journal for Gonzo Blurbanism' / Taschen's majestic Moon.

What Will Become of Brand Dubai?, 'The bubble burst and everything that Dubai stood for - overt displays of wealth and conspicuous consumption fell dramatically out of vogue.' / videos of Arcosanti (Arcosanti site) / Heuristic England, a weblog / Quiet Babylon, a weblog (especially the recent post 'Hacking with Pictures') / Nuits sans Nuit et Quelques Jours sans Jour, a weblog

We are independently wealthy, a weblog / Makeshift, 'an experimental fanzine about architecture and its alternatives' / 'What Do Presidential Libraries Say About Their Namesakes' Legacies?' / Grain of Salt, design, urbanism and architecture weblog.

All about The Peckham Experiment. See also our extracts from The Peckham Experiment: a study of the living structure of society / Voitures Presidentielles, a French car museum (via Jalopnik) / Copy©unts, on advertising copyism (via haddock). Combine with PhotoshopDisasters and Bad British Architecture for a strong dose of creative professional schadenfreude.

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