Memo to Rain: Please go away.

Here’s a great look into how tunnel boring machines work. [via]

Jenna Fischer (of The Office fame) is one of People’s 100 most beautiful people of the year. She says the best beauty secret is to get enough sleep. :) Also, her favorite city in the world is Sydney, Australia! YAY AUSTRALIA! Whee! [via]

Brian Witlin of Rootphi is partnering up with Timbuk2 to offer a new and exciting way to reuse and recycle your trash — into stylish Timbuk2 bags! I’ve owned a couple of classic messenger bags from Timbuk2 and I can tell you that there’s pretty much no other company that makes a better messenger bag. I just love them. If you want to enter to win a prototype version of one of these made-from-recycled-trash bags, you can enter through the contact form at the bottom of the Cool Hunting page (just make sure you pick ‘Timbuk2 Giveaway’ from the drop down menu before you submit).

I just noticed that Timbuk2 also raised their prices on their bags. WWWWWWHHHHYYYYYYY????!!!!

New Yorkers: there’s a chance of showers today and into the night. I wouldn’t have ever guessed it since it looks so beautiful outside my window right now. I guess I should expect that to change slightly by the time I get off work tonight. Nooooo! Don’t go away Sun! You look so good!!!