Freehold Or Leasehold – we saw several “leasehold” flats for sale in Notting Hill today and wondered what you were buying with that…not much, it turns out.

Marginal Revolution: The secrets of *Lost*, revealed – spoilers and speculation included, of course. I love this notion; reminds me of Joseph Campbell’s Monomyth. What better way to build a new story than on a framework tested for millenia?

Fireworks, lightning, and a comet – all in the same photo. Who needs tv when you’ve got a sky like that?

When pro mountain bikers can’t stop talking about great singletrack, it means a trip there is in order…

Giant drawings in sand. Here’s more. Awesome.

“All the political, religious, and moneymaking institutions’ power is built upon those institutions’ expertise in ministering to, and ameliorating, the suffering, want, pain, and fears resultant upon the misassumption of a fundamental inadequacy of life support on our planet and the consequent misfortune of the majority of humans” – From “Cosmography” by R. Buckminster Fuller,…more

Anil Dash: Bill Gates and the Greatest Tech Hack Ever – “Imagine imposing a tax on every corporation in the developed world, collecting $100 per white-collar worker per year, and then directing one third of the proceeds to curing AIDS and malaria. That, effectively, is what Bill Gates has done.”

The feel-good YouTube video of the year – and a neat statement about people around the world.

Very cool sketch notes – without concern for overlaps, which just make them more interesting…

X-bike – very cool concept bike, via Bicycle Design