"For example, in cities, the degree of criminality is affected by liberty of movement; it’s higher in culs-de-sac. And high-rises are culs-de-sac: two thousand people jammed together in the air…"

"Attached to the top of each bottle is a cylinder. This cylinder is a cartridge that contains a concentrate. When you get the bottle home, you fill it with water and then attach that cartridge to the top of the bottle. Now when you squeeze the trigger you get a spray that is made up of tap water mixed on the fly with the concentrate in the cartridge."
Thanks Mayo for the link.
Armand Hammer himself was an intriguing person by all accounts…as I understand it, it amused him immensely to buy stock in Church & Dwight who made the baking soda and toothpaste, so that when people asked him if he made the products (kind of) bearing his name, he could say yes truthfully.

Adam Richardson, frog design

"Mr. Peñalosa's solutions may work in the developing world, but is North America ready for his happy revolution? Consider the advice he gave to planners in Los Angeles last year: Let traffic and congestion become so unbearable that drivers voluntarily abandon their car habits." Thanks Charles for the link

"We have done a fantastic job on usability of passwords. They’re so usable that anyone will type their password anywhere they see the word “password”…" (via Boing Boing)