A short film from the INDEX site about the award winning, low cost indoor stove designed by Phillips Design.  The stove is filters the smoke before it is released inside the house, or vented outside via a chimney.  It is a modular design that can be built quite easily by the end-user.  Built with low income users in mind who do most of their cooking inside their houses.

Via Design Observer

At Facing South, we read that in Alabama, construction for a new Sam's Club is destroying 1,500 year old ceremonial mound.

Indeed, as the Oxford, Alabama Mayor Leon Smith says, "What it's going to be is more prettier than it is today."

via Archaeology Magazine.

Henry Flynt, Purified By The Fire. I had never heard of him until I saw this post at aworks, which by the way, is a great blog I have been following off and on for years. Henry Flynt wikipedia page.

Just a note that the Built Furniture Teak Table Lamp has been showing up at a few design websites that I really love.  Some links:

materialicious

DeZona

modern echo

A somewhat mysterious blog, full of beautiful images.

Via things magazine.