This weekend in furniture fantasy, I found:


A bird chandelier and fantastical tree bed with bird's nest (though, imagine how unfun it would be to clean the bed frame) from Shawn Lovell Metalworks.

The "Palm Tree" lamp by Aqua Creations out of Israel. Quite the piece here: hand-dyed crushed silk shades crafted over dark brown organza wrapped metal tube frames. Only $6250... if you can even find one. Apparently it debuted in 1997.


A handsome Art Deco hope chest on Craigslist for a measly $200.

And finally, I think a field trip is in order to Klassik by Lynne in Emeryville. Founded in 2002 by Danish born Lynne Jensen, this showroom is stocked directly from Denmark, but they don't update their website as quickly as they get new things. I chanced upon a post on Craigslist that they have a new shipment; photos here.

I'm pining for the Borge Mogensen Teak Cabinet (left).

I found this record in the basement, DJ Qbert's Wave Twisters, so I brought out my record player and checked it out. It was rad. It's all, "YOU .. ARE .. AN .. OSTRICH" then crashing metal garbage can lids and deep, freaky bass. It's totally hypnotizing and ass-vibrating... I may have found the brown note! It's crazy. I love it.

Stacey Peralta interviews Mike Shine. via @fecalface

Raw Meat on the Doorstep from Eddie Ringer on Vimeo.

This is an email sent to my co-workers after a frustrating day wrestling with our (actually really great) Content Management System, Drupal.

For future reference, so that YOU don't spend all day trying to mend this problem...

Today we had an issue with "The Big Four" Block on the homepage. We discovered that if you weren't logged in, it only showed 3 headlines, not 4. Boy, was that awkward.

I opened up the Block View and noticed that it was set to display only 3 Nodes, and that ain't right, so I changed it to 4 and all was peachy til we realized the Block title, "The Big Four," had vanished.

After three HOURS of trying various methods of reinstating the Header, guess what: the way to get the Header to show up is... wait for it... you can simply put a SPACE in the Header setting for the Block View.

That's right. A space. => <= one of those. OBVIOUSLY.

Apparently, having *anything* in the Header setting will cause the Block to pull in an image (specified somewhere currently unknown) for the title. This is why the other similar Block, Eat+Drink, shows a title--it has the "More Eat + Drink" link in its Header setting.

The reason the title disappeared after I edited the Nodes per Block setting in the View is because a space is nothing, and though I didn't even edit the Header setting, its Input Format was set to Full HTML, which strips extra spaces, thus leaving the Header settings empty. Hence, no title.

Thanks XxxxXxxx (web dev company I won't actually malign publicly.) You guys are geniuses. Why do something simply (they could have put an image tag right there in the Header settings) when you can create an illogical, inscrutable paradox (i.e. nothing = something) and pass it off to unwitting web workers.

Perhaps the C.I.A. could use my help in deciphering the last unsolved portion of Kryptos.

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