Swedishness is a site featuring the awesomeness that is Swedish Design. The best part: You can own some of it. Go. Visit. Smile. Buy. Rejoice.

Man, I love Scandinavia.

Ferocious is a curated, quarterly publication that collects illustrators, graphic artists, short fiction authors and written text.

I came across Ferocious this morning and it looks to be a beautifully curated, designed, and printed quarterly. It will certainly be at the top of my list of pubs to buy. Excellent work!

Ferocious Quarterly is published by Nate Utesch.

Via Grain Edit.

Reconstruct is a project series by Rogier de Boevé. Excellent, beautiful work.

Since August 2005, We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world’s newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases “I feel” and “I am feeling”. When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the “feeling” expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.). Because blogs are structured in largely standard ways, the age, gender, and geographical location of the author can often be extracted and saved along with the sentence, as can the local weather conditions at the time the sentence was written. All of this information is saved.

I remember discovering We Feel Fine back in 2005, and it blew my mind. Very creative and inspiring project. I am posting it here today because it has just as much—if not more—value today than it did 5 years ago. And really, to some people this site may be old hat, but it’s still important enough to give a shout-out to. You never know who might discover it today and become inspired to build the next great project tomorrow.

My friend recently forwarded me this great blog post on the great Chuck Norris, Karate master and jean inventor. Oh, how I need a pair of these special CN pants. In this ad, he’s sporting an 80′s style that is surprisingly trendy right now with the hipster crowd, especially with that sweet #1 Karate shirt. I realized that:

1.) He’s so cool, I wish I was the guy in the ad about to get my face kicked in

2.) I want Chuck Norris hair (complete with hidden death fist underneath.)

Sometimes during a brief moment of boredom, I will simply enter a phrase into my address bar to view the result. Bad Hair is the result of my search the other day. I find it to be magnificently conceived and humorous, without much rhyme or reason, and I’m glad I found it.

Awesome speech in Copenhagen back in December from Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed. He has stated that his country will  be the first carbon-neutral country in the world. We need more world leaders to stand up and demand a system change, if for no other reason than simply to have the “moral clarity of our cause” as our motivation to bring clean air, water and soil back to everyone.

Photo by Matthew McDermott

I love browsing the website for The Buckminster Fuller Institute

The Buckminster Fuller Institute is dedicated to accelerating the development and deployment of solutions which radically advance human well being and the health of our planet’s ecosystems.

Amen.