Whenever I need to buy furniture—and it's been a few times over the past few months (yes, bookcases are useful things)—I check out Modhaus, an online store and "gallery of modernist furnishings, decorative arts and cultural artifacts of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s." Our apartment is rapidly becoming a shrine to the buying tastes of the Modhaus owners. How much wood can one possibly fit into a living room?

It’s Friday! Hooray, and it is time for another caption contest. This week’s picture should be a good one!

Something we’ve intentionally folded into our upcoming Managing Experiences conference in San Francisco is several quick sessions on topics that will soon impact everyones career in user experience. And we’re very excited that one of these sessions is with Matt Jones, a talented designer previously at Nokia and the BBC, but now founder and lead designer of the Dopplr service—a very useful social network for frequent travelers.

Last week Dopplr was featured in TIME Magazine, where it’s clear the utility and experience of the service is so much more important than its status as a social network.

“Dopplr… allows you to plug in all your travel plans for months ahead, and see at the click of a button which friends’ and colleagues’ journeys will overlap with yours…”

“You never know whom you might meet on the road. But if karma isn’t quite working out for you, Dopplr could be the next best thing.”

Matt Jones and Dopplr are just one of our many great speakers at MX, and if you sign up by Sunday, you can still get the early-bird pricing.

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I didn’t know half the delegates are voted on in less than a week. I mean, I knew a lot of races were happening at once, but half the delegates? That’s a quasi-election day right there. This video should help you decide:

Why do public benches never seem to dry? A simple solution to an age old problem, The Rolling Bench ensures you'll have a dry pad to sit on no matter the conditions.

Designed by Korean firm Sungwoo Park and friends, the bench is built on a rotating axle. Just turn the hand crank to unveil the dry side of the seat so you can take a load off without getting a wet behind.

via yanko design.

The lack of inventive gifts around Valentine's Day is yet another reason why we have a hard time getting behind the commercial holiday. We've found some fun alternatives, DIY solutions and, thankfully, Vosges applied their winning formula of inventive chocolate combined with clever presentation for a traditional gift with enough of an edge to keep it interesting.

Shaped like a Sacred Heart, their new Flaming Chocolate hearts come in three flavor-ways, (white chocolate with lemon and peppercorns, dark chocolate with chiles and cinnamon and milk with almonds and salt) and are solid chocolate. We think that whether your passion is religious, amorous or simply for chocolate, these are a good choice. They're $12 a piece from Vosges.