A couple of worthwhile blogs
Cooking Gadgets is a crazy blog about, well, about cooking gadgets. Like the fruit candle carver (pictured below) or this sandwich cutter.
Architectures of control is a brilliant set of essays on code as law. Code as law is of course an interesting subject for programmers, because we are sometimes called upon to deliberately make products defective in order to satisfy outmoded business models (luckily the companies I work for have not asked me to do this). But as code and technology infects the physical world, we are now seeing code as law affecting every day activities, sometimes where it is definitely not wanted, and other times when it most certainly is.