blogwatch: where we’ve been clicking this week

blogwatch

Check out this shelving system that gets its design inspiration from capillaries. Kinda diggin’ it… At BoingBoing.

Lifehacker let us in on a free program that turns your handwriting into a custom font. Completely awesome — unless your penmanship is hardly legible!

SoCal residents: now’s your chance to score a primo condo in the coveted Castle Green building in Pasadena, for a paltry sum of $2900 a month! Via the Huffington Post.

Learn how to make Japanese curry rice from scratch at Serious Eats. No MSG required for maximum deliciousness!

Got ants? Re-nest’s got a great roundup of natural ant repellents. Cinnamon, apparently, works pretty well!

Celebrate America’s independence from Great Britain the proper way: through festive alcoholic beverages! Curbly’s fun post , Red, White, and Booze, Part Deux should be all the researchin’ you need.

Architectnophilia’s house of the week makes us want to hop on the next flight to the Pyrenees.

And while we’re over there, should we want to stopover en Paris, we’ll be staying at Christian LaCroix’s Hotel du Petit Moulin, thanks to CasaSugar.

Ariel

I’ll put in another plug for the cinnamon as an ant repellent – we tackled a nasty case of sugar ants in our house with this. And it smelled good, too!