Is it Kosher To Automate? - This article is interesting, another cool find via 99PI, but it leads me to wonder if you precoded everything on Thursday night for your Sabbath could you just carry on with your normal routine? Your past self-automated everything the day before, so you aren’t technically doing any work.

Question Everything, Especially Yourself - For all of the find your bliss and crystal healing crap grafted on top of Buddhism in America, the fundamental aspect of interrogating the self through meditation is forgotten. Granted that's a lot harder than talking in a half whisper and acting superior to people, so I'm not surprised.

Just Enough Space For My "Currently Reading" List - A cool design concept for a library chair. Combining a seat, a lamp, and a space to store your books, this chair should be filed under "Shut up and take my money."

That Explains All The Trippy Visuals - The AV Club has an excerpt from a book about the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Kubrick apparently worked overnight in a factory to get the settings and process right for the effects by observing caustic chemicals.

Leading The User - If there is a good side effect to the kerfuffle around Facebook's data mining policies, is that software designers are starting to talk about the ethics of the profession. The Loop linked a video that describes the way web design can be used to obfuscate things the user wants to do.