The Black Oven, a blog devoted to gloomy baking ("Immaculate confections succumbed to northern darkness") presents us with this fabulous recipe for Black Metal Cupcakes: Le Petit Gateau du Les Legions Noire - Traditional cupcakes inspired by untraditional black metal In a perfect world everything would be as stark and void...

Donya has shipped this four-port USB hub in the shape of the Emergency Exit ped -- I'm charmed by the little USB icon on his little briefcase (Hey! I thought you weren't supposed to try to take anything with you when you evacuated!). Looks like you'll have to go to Japan to buy one (for now). Link...

Microsoft is aggressively pushing a new low-cost version of its operating system intended for use with "ultra low cost PCs," competing with Linux on machines like the Eee and the One Laptop Per Child XO. However, Microsoft isn't willing to sell the low-cost license to any ULPC -- rather, the company has set out onerous...

The Vermont Eco Builder blog documents its project to make a kitchen floor from a patchwork of Marmoleum ends, rescuing them from a landfill. The effect is just lovely. Link (via Neatorama)...