Truly Custom Cakery based its cake on the Batmobile from the 1989 movie. Would the Tumbler Batmobile taste better? Or the 60s-era Batmobile? This calls for a comprehensive study.

Link -via That’s Nerdalicious! | Bakery Website

You might think the TV show The Good Wife is best suited to middle-aged women (so much so that my fiance enforces reference restraint when we’re out with friends). Seriously though, it’s one of the best shows on TV. Character Depth! Complex, contemporary issues! And tons of tech. Bear with me. More »

Forget
Tiger Moms! The
secret to raising great, well-behaved kids is … being French!

Pamela Druckerman explains why French parents are superior:

Why was it, for example, that in the hundreds of hours I’d clocked
at French playgrounds, I’d never seen a child (except my own) throw
a temper tantrum? Why didn’t my French friends ever need to rush off
the phone because their kids were demanding something? Why hadn’t their
living rooms been taken over by teepees and toy kitchens, the way ours
had?

Soon it became clear to me that quietly and en masse, French parents
were achieving outcomes that created a whole different atmosphere for
family life. When American families visited our home, the parents usually
spent much of the visit refereeing their kids’ spats, helping their
toddlers do laps around the kitchen island, or getting down on the floor
to build Lego villages. When French friends visited, by contrast, the
grownups had coffee and the children played happily by themselves.

By the end of our ruined beach holiday, I decided to figure out
what French parents were doing differently. Why didn’t French children
throw food? And why weren’t their parents shouting? Could I change my
wiring and get the same results with my own offspring?

Driven partly by maternal desperation, I have spent the last several
years investigating French parenting. And now, with Bean 6 years old
and twins who are 3, I can tell you this: The French aren’t perfect,
but they have some parenting secrets that really do work.

If you’ve got kids that don’t listen to you, this is the one post to read today: Link

I would like to take this opportunity to personally thank Kate who perfectly sums up how I, and probably a good chunk of the population, feel about those giant stacks of unclaimed phone books showing up at apartment buildings every year. More »

One of the great things about H&M creating special collections with high-end fashion brands is that the advertising of such co-labs is usually as beautiful as the collection itself. The latest commercial has been directed by Sofia Coppola.

The video is set in Marocco and presents a 1 minute story featuring Marni at H&M collection and a fascinating Brian Ferry’s Avalon song.

Check in out, the photography is beautiful.

You’ve seen many minimalist art posters based on movies, but how about minimalist posters for internet memes? Artist Stefan Van Zoggel created 29 of them so far, illustrating both classic and recent memes. Link -via Blame It On The Voices

Possibly one of the sweetest and nicest promo pieces for Valentine’s Day I’ve ever seen. And possibly a sign that the creative “war” between Field Notes and Moleskine has officially begun. After a lot of recent great videos by Moleskine, FN fights back with a lovely little artwork.

The video has been created to promote the Red Blooded notebook which has been recently added to the Field Notes standard product line. The notebook that becomes a love letter: a further proof that life, love and commerce can intersect nicely. Well… maybe the description that they added on the site is a bit too much but, still, it’s a very inspiring and beautiful work.