This is so cool: Hotel Everland, a temporary, one-room hotel on the roof of the Palais de Tokyo museum in Paris with a magnificent view of the Eiffel Tower. It includes a king-size bed, lounge, bathroom, minibar, and a record collection. Very swanky. I love the toilet.
[ From Coudal Partners ]

Cartype has a pictorial of some awesome car gauge clusters. Some of them look like they\’d be distracting though, and the concept car ones are just hard to read.

George Carlin died yesterday at age 71. He was my favorite comedian and he\’ll be missed. I love his routine about familiar expressions:

\”\’The greatest thing since sliced bread.\’ So this is it, huh folks? Couple of hundred thousand years. The fuckin\’ pyramids for christ\’s sake…What\’s so great about sliced bread? You got a knife, you got a loaf of bread. Slice the fuckin\’ thing!\”

So you\’ve installed those Bocci power outlets in your minimalist house and now you need some lighting that\’s equally minimalist. The Torn Lighting is a perfect match. These things hide LED lights behind them, and it looks like they\’re also meant to be drywalled over.

This is pretty cool. This guy read all the Sherlock Holmes stories and drew a floorplan of 221b Baker Street. Heh heh, Holmes has a cocaine bottle on the mantlepiece. The 1800s were such a different time.