I'm looking down at one of the most delicious magazine front covers I've seen in a long time – glossy mint green with painterly, promising coverlines and a cherubic Beth Ditto, naked, her modesty covered by a cerise tutu and, in the case of her nipples, an airbrush. Welcome to Love, the new style magazine from Condé Nast, which launches tomorrow.

Skimming through Forbes list of the Top 25 Most Influential Personalities on the Web Today, we were struck by the common thread running through some of the best blogs today. Pundits like Guy Kawasaki, Jeff Jarvis and Steve Rubel have all led the pack of aspiring bloggers by sharing a similar approach: they share all they know. From a professional standpoint, sharing your newest Marketing or PR innovations freely on the web doesn’t make a lot of sense. Any competitive advantage you may have had is lost to the public once these ideas live online, right?

Unconsumption” means getting rid of things. I don’t mean voluntary simplicity, etc. I mean we all have to get rid of things sometimes, and as you’re probably aware, this can lead to problems. Lots and lots of thought and energy and money goes into creating “meanings” for consumption, but what about unconsumption? Can that be done in a meaningful way?

THAT'S AWESOME! I -LOVE- it.

“Freestyle dining” is an emerging food trend in Manila. The process: customers picks from a list of key ingredients. Then they order based on whatever emotion or adjective best describes their dining mood, trusting the chef with the task of translating it into a matching meal. It’s like assigning the chef the role of culinary therapist.

After applying their talents to the Nike 1948 pop-up store in Shoreditch, East London, the sportswear brand asked Oscar and Ben Wilson to redesign the same space just a few months later. The new space has a rubber Nike Grind floor made from approximately 15,000 recycled sneakers and modular furniture that can adapt for different uses of the space.

The world's top cellphone maker Nokia is eyeing entering the laptop business, its Chief Executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said in an interview to Finnish national broadcaster YLE on Wednesday.

"We are looking very actively also at this opportunity," Kallasvuo said, when asked whether Nokia plans to make laptops.

If you are in or around Vienna this week, be sure to check out Evan Roth's (Graffiti Research Lab) first solo exhibition which opens at the Advanced Minority Gallery on Westbahnstr 22. A-1070

The opening coincides with the release of Evan's new self published book project called, /AVAILABLE ONLINE FOR FREE: Selected works by Evan Roth 2003-2008/ (made entirely in Linux using open source software and fonts). The book can be downloaded for free in its entirety here.

These Brooklynites, most in their 20s and 30s, are hand-making pickles, cheeses and chocolates the way others form bands and artists’ collectives. They have a sense of community and an appreciation for traditional methods and flavors. They also share an aesthetic that’s equal parts 19th and 21st century, with a taste for bold graphics, salvaged wood and, for the men, scruffy beards

Droog, Amsterdam’s stable of rebel designers, open a new store in NYC today. PSFK stopped by last night for a preview of the new shop on Greene Street in Soho. The two story space has the Droog shop on the ground floor and a curated exhibition space in the basement. The shop contains a collection of new and iconic product and furniture pieces from Droog designers and artists.

Toyota is looking to a greener future — literally — with dreams of an ultralight, superefficient plug-in hybrid with a bioplastic body made of seaweed that could be in showrooms within 15 years.

The kelp car would build upon the already hypergreen 1/X plug-in hybrid concept, which weighs 926 pounds, by replacing its carbon-fiber body with plastic derived from seaweed. As wild as it might sound, bioplastics are becoming increasingly common and Toyota thinks it's only a matter of time before automakers use them to build cars.

"We used lightweight carbon-fiber reinforced plastic throughout the body and frame for its superior collision safety," , which is pronounced "one-xth." "But that material is made from oil. In the future, I'm sure we will have access to new and better materials, such as those made from plants, something natural, maybe something like paper. In fact, I want to create such a vehicle from seaweed because Japan is surrounded by the sea."

"Slacker," like most labels, has always been a crude and misleading shorthand. We were a bit aimless, us urban, liberal-arts types. We were a little too enamored of irony, perhaps. A little too frivolous.

Some agencies are finding new ways to be creative, even without clients. Smaller outfits like Brooklyn Brothers and Anomaly have launched or planned their own products in categories from chocolate to clothing. The not-so-small Bartle Bogle Hegarty has started a division called Zag to create new brands—starting with Pick Me vegetarian meals and a line of "personal alarms" under the name Ila Dusk—that the agency itself will own. According to the New York Times, Zag has made a hit of a blog that it created to track the fashion habits of Michelle Obama. The site, called Mrs. O, has already led to a book deal, and branded merch is coming next. Not a bad performance, considering it's happening in the Depression 2.0 era.

“Some Call It Home,” a documentary on the gentrification of Downtown Brooklyn. Like many cities in America, Brooklyn is rediscovering and redeveloping its downtown. Old buildings have been torn down and glass-covered towers have shot up, often at the expense of lower-income residents. While the economic downturn may decrease the city’s development budget, not to mention the demand for luxury housing, long-established communities are already affected by empty storefronts and increasing rents.