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  1. 10 chindogu tenets
  2. Dieter Rams: ten principles for good design
  3. The Burrow

    The Burrow is an unfinished short story by Franz Kafka in which a mole-like being burrows through an elaborate system of tunnels it has built over its life.

  4. Untitled (Rooms) 2001, Rachel Whiteread

    Untitled (Rooms) 2001, Rachel Whiteread

  5. Imaginary Colours

    Imaginary colors are points in a colour space that correspond to combinations of cone cell responses that cannot be produced by any physical light spectrum.

  6. Impossible Colours

    Impossible colours are hues that can only be perceived under specific conditions.

  7. Panettone

    Panettone is a type of sweet bread loaf originally from Milan, usually prepared and enjoyed for Christmas and New Year.

  8. Pantone

    Pantone Inc. is a corporation headquartered in Carlstadt, New Jersey, USA. The company is best known for its Pantone Matching System, a proprietary color space.

  9. London Beer Flood

    On October 17, 1814 a huge vat containing over 610,000 litres of beer ruptured, causing other vats in the same building to succumb in a domino effect. As a result, more than 1,470,000 litres of beer burst out and gushed into the streets.

  10. Boston Molasses Disaster

    On January 15, 1919 in Boston, Massachusetts a large storage tank burst, and a wave of molasses rushed through the streets at an estimated 35 mph, killing 21 and injuring 150.

  11. Therblig

    A therblig is the name for one of a set of fundamental motions required for a worker to perform a manual operation or task. The set consists of 18 elements, each describing a standardized activity.

  12. Green Ink

    In British journalism, green ink is used to describe written correspondence from self-aggrandising pedants, cranks, charlatans and eccentrics, or from the clearly mentally ill.

  13. Blazon

    In heraldry and heraldic vexillology, a blazon is a formal description of a coat of arms, flag or similar emblem, from which the reader can reconstruct the appropriate image.

  14. Cathemeral

    A cathemeral organism is one that has sporadic and random intervals of activity during the day or night in which food is acquired, socializing with other organisms occurs, and any other activities necessary for livelihood are performed.