I just came across a rather different kind of news aggregator, at least compared to Google. The brainchild of Guy Kawasaki (ex-Apple evangelist and tech guru) you have to check out AllTop. This may actually become a regular destination for me.
On designing the body
Corpus 2.0 by Marcia Nolte is a set of seven portraits illustrating how the human body could adjust itself to the design of products, including a hole in the lips for smokers and an extended shoulder for holding a phone. Very strange and very interesting, check it out
It’s also a great place to start when teaching RSS & blogs. When I was teaching this summer and didn’t have time to keep up with my feeds, Alltop kept me on top of things (pun intended.) I also find it useful for “fringe” interests.