It’s pretty rainy and grey over here in Spicy Country, so here are some links to distract you from the wintry void outside:

• - Please Say Something by David O’Reilly (above first)
• - Marc Trujillo’s Urban America (above second)
• - Reimagining rain reservoirs as public parks
• - Follow-up to an earlier post: Swiss voters ban the building of minarets
• - Yay supermax! Sigh: Depressed US towns battle for Gitmo North
• - Good title sequences get me flustered: BBC’s How We Built Britain
• - On the 17th connotations of milkmaids and kitchen items: Vermeer’s Kitchen Fantasies
• - “Old Fashioned:” Donuts as art
• - A doll house for our times: Miniature shipping container homes
• - Apparently self-service checkouts make other people crazy too
• - In other machinated news: Tesco opens grocery store sans workers
• - Stats: Green roofs and carbon sequestration
• - The psychology of menu design
• - Pass on the pasta zoo goo: McDonald’s regional food varietals
• - Artist Kristin Lucas legally changes her name to Kristin Lucas: Self refresh
• - Flavored weather modification: the Cloud Project
• - The area required to completely power the earth with solar/wind
• - Country for the city: The sad/comic ballad, “Shutting Detroit Down”
• - Baron Ambrosia’s bizarre public access food adventures: Bronx Flavor
• - The relationship between cupcakes and gentrification
• -Yes! Yes! Yes! The eels drop two new songs from their forthcoming album, “End Times”
• - Tobias Fränzels Ping-Pong door might be the best thing ever invented (below)