While I know metrosexuals have been and gone, I didn't realise they had been "replaced" by... pansexuals. Take your average husband, make him listen to a few show tunes, stick enough sequins on him to rival a Kerri-Anne Kennerley Logies frock, cover him in thick layers of make-up and teach him to do high kicks, and what have you got? A pansexual. Or to be more precise, a ... Read full entry

The Cool Hunter launches Fashionation, aggregator of all things fashion and fabulous. Each day we scan the globe's top fashion magazines - from every international edition of influential glossy bibles Vogue and Harpers Bazaar, right through to obscure and cutting edge fashion and pop culture tomes such as Pop, Marmalade, ID and Dutch to unearth the most creative and inspiring work happening in the world right now.

In 1993, music producer Brian Eno and Wired editor Kevin Kelley, co-wrote a series of scenarios depicting the world in 2008. Some of their predictions are rather morbid, while others are humourous, and just a little telling... Everybody becomes so completely cynical about the election process that voter turnout drops to 2 percent (families and relatives of prospective politicians) until finally the "democratic process" is abandoned in favour of ... Read full entry

Scarlett Johansson and Walt Disney World Apparently portraying Cinderella. Thanks Coolspotters (via Mike Industries).

A short video interview (4 mins approx) with Bill Tikos, creator of culture site, the cool hunter. Webmasters will either be inspired, or turn green with envy, at Bill's almost nonchalant talk of the site's "organic growth". Launched from his home in Bondi, Sydney, the cool hunter had about 40,000 visitors in its first month, but now receives over 600,000 visits a month. "Find your niche and if it's what ... Read full entry

Face Hunter Awesome fashion photography from the streets of London, Glasgow, Moscow, and beyond, via the cool hunter: Forget what the designers say, most trends emerge not from their studios but organically from the street. Cool young things all over the world are the true pioneers of fashion, wearing clothes in new ways by customizing and accessorizing and creating a pastiche of retro and modern.

Not sure how I missed this, but Tasmanian web designer Jason Carter has, sometime recently, relaunched conduit to all things cool, TheNews. I've also secretly subscribed to the view that Australia is the world's largest island for many years (largest island sounds way cooler than smallest continent), a point-of-view TheNews also seems to support. TheNews.com.au is a daily update on ideas, products and emerging trends in the intersection of art, ... Read full entry

A Call for Yuppie Communes. The opening paragraph makes for a gripping read, a society on the verge of collapse because 20-somethings are choosing to bunk up with their mates, rather than get married and start families. Adultescents, kidults, the boomerang generation they all mean essentially the same thing: Something has gone terribly wrong with today's 20-somethings. They are or, I should say we are something less than fully adult. Piled ... Read full entry

The future according to Bill Gates. Bill Gates shows us how easy it is too be wise in hindsight. He predicted computer users would soon throw out the keyboard and mouse in favour of interacting with the PC using hand gestures, and envisioned a world where computers were built into the furniture and far easier to use. I was somewhat underwhelmed by his keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show. That's what happens ... Read full entry

The Life and Times of Cool. An interesting discussion on future trends in web design, which also asks the question, "what is cool today in web design?" Many of us know in the back of our minds that the future of web design is closely connected with the future of the computers themselves, but we fail to realize the coming situations, where nearly everything we've learned (and practiced) is going to ... Read full entry