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Zucchinis are known to you and me as a vegetable (Photo by Forest & Kim Starr)

That is exactly what you eat when you eat a zucchini, my friends. While we know it as a vegetable, scientifically the zucchini is considered ‘an immature fruit, being the swollen ovary of the female zucchini flower’.

Bon appétit!


 

A sweet story told in two minutes. Memories of my own mixtape moments came flooding back (though I never gave girls mixtapes till I was a bit older than our protagonist).

Also, you cannot go very wrong with a Kinks and a Heart song, can you?


 

Apple excels at taking existing concepts – computers, MP3 players, conceit – and carefully streamlining them into glistening ergonomic chunks of concentrated aspiration.

›› Charlie Brooker ruminates over the iPad


 

Painstakingly hand-crafted beauty and brilliance.


 

That’s some seriously insane (but totally valid) CSS by Román Cortés.

And now I’m feeling thirsty.


 

Leopold and Loeb, a terrible 1924 kidnapping crime undertaken just for the ‘thrill of the kill’


 

Another happy, fun video from the band that brought us the original happy, fun video. There’s an open letter from OK Go about video embedding and other marketing issues for their new album – quite a good look at how (a small part of) the music industry works.


 

The complete works of Samuel Beckett, with a specially designed typefaces for the covers. Bold and beautiful work by the London studio, A2/SW/HK.


 

Will there come a time when data will be sufficient or is the problem insoluble in all conceivable circumstances?

›› The Last Question by Isaac Asimov © 1956


 

Steven Bonner is a great illustrator with a great body of diverse work, like this sweetly detailed T-shirt print


 

Totally random picture, yo!

Seriously… WTF?


 


 

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