a tour of a coffee plant

For the millions of coffee lovers nationwide out there, now you can watch how coffee (more specifically, gourmet) is roasted (from BoingBoingTV):

A school that contains colorful (visual) language

The public school buildings I went to as a child were old, drab-colored, and just plain aesthetically boring. The heavy use of color would mainly be confined to the display of the high school mascot or in the kindergarten wing of the elementary school. Over in Amsterdam, they are designing public schools that are fun and pleasing the eye. Coolhunter has the pictures of the Amsterdam schools here. Public schools here desperately need a dose of creativity.