Reinventing the wheel. Or the rocking chair.

Stumbled onto the 100% Design show in London, and a few pieces really jumped out as smart, inventive and entertaining. The picture is of a rocker called Ku-Dir-Ka by Lithuanian designer Paulius Vitkauskas. The floor model was bright green, but it's also available in black and red according to its manufacturer, Contraforma. Designer Anthony Dickens takes a whole new look at time with clocks that scroll in a linear fashion while others rotate like a carousel. Andrew Lang has created something that looks like a flower pot screwed to the wall. Instead, you lock your bike to it. No need for big bike racks. A design group called Asobi from Slovenia crushes all sense of scale with their XXL suggestion for public seating, the Isle Lounge. Dead Good brings cool Britannia to a mirror. The London office of ad agency Wieden & Kennedy even got in on the act, sponsoring a design contest for a new product that reprepresents them . It's very democratic. Vote here.

Five years later

A tribute in light, through 2008 at least. A renewed effort to build a physical memorial. What if that morning had never happened? Rounding out a neighborhood by building up. And Santiago Calatrava's designs for the new transit hub.

Everybody's crazy

Jody Rosen of Slate.com has a great piece on the large number of covers out there for the Gnarls Barkley track "Crazy." It seems to be the lingua franca on this summer's music circuit for groups like the Raconteurs, Of Montreal and the Kooks. Even better, Rosen unearths the Ennio Morricone track that's the basis for the song's main riff.

Six years of every day

Photographer Noah Kalina has been taking one picture of himself every day for the past six years. And he's strung all the photos together into a video. Music by Carly Comando. Listen on her My Space here. Two more similar projects (by different photographers) are here and here. And what would a trend be without a spoof?