Whew! Here we are again. Last week we checked out how to turn touch screens back into physical inputs with this hack: Physical knobs for touchscreens.

We’re also exploring how to take it back to the future by turning our digital messages into snail mail with Google Envelopes Beta.

We’re exploring the science of designing stuff with Susan Weinschenk and Neuro Web Design.

And asking ourselves: is Facebook jumping the shark? After reviewing the New York Times diagram of the Facebook privacy mess.

While also questioning our own mortality and life goals inspired by Before I Die I Want To…Project.

We saw one of our childhood dreams realized through a three-story playground designed by children that has a better safety record than playgrounds that have been designed to be ’safe’. Yeah!

We’re hoping that we can get to our Las Vegas clients by riding this train someday real soon.

Many of us were intrigued by VW’s open contest to crowdsource in-auto entertainment VW’s open contest to crowdsource in-auto entertainment.

We also checked out this story on how the Intercontinental outfits concierges with iPad. Oooh! Maybe we can experience it person together at UX Intensive San Francisco.

Also, we checked out this interesting Story (video) about the Semantic Web.