Interesting links for January 8th:

• Jason Mecier – Cool gallery of Jason Mecier, who makes portraits of celebrities with "weird" materials, like candy.
• My Organized Closet – Wishing I had space for an organized closet like this.
• Power of Seating – Three designs of chairs, personifying three great figures: Queen Elizabeth, Superman and The Thinker from Rodin.
• Top 10 Gruesome Fairy Tale Origins – Some of the fairy tales we were told as kids, didn't start out as fairy tale-ish as they are now. A lot of them were way more gruesome, ending with not-that-happy-endings.

Episode 96: “fortune cookies… they are more American than anything else” 

I love listening to TED talks; they’re always interesting, yet fun to listen to. This one features Jennifer 8. Lee talking about the origins of familiar Chinese-American dishes and how not that Chinese they actually are. It’s 16 minutes long, but definitely worth watching:

[Watch the video on TED.com]