Recently we've been enjoying looking inside some movie and television character's homes; now Boing Boing points to Mark Bennett—"a compulsive television watcher in his youth, he makes careful observations of the sets inhabited by popular TV shows, transforming them into fully realized architectural drawings." His blueprints, some of which are published in his book TV Sets, include the Jeffersons' home, Uncle Bill's home from Family Affair, Bruce Wayne's mansion in Gotham and Lucy and Ricky Ricardo's digs. more ›

For an avowed non-presidential candidate, Mayor Bloomberg certainly gets more attention than some of the actual candidates. Newsweek devotes its cover story to "Mike" Bloomberg, "The Billion Dollar Wild Card," a reference to the billion dollars Mayor B has at his disposal, should be decide to run for president next year. That is so much more flattering than the "Lazy Like a Fox" cover Newsweek had of Fred Thompson! Newsweek editor-in-chief Jon Meacham got to... more ›