Linkpile (via Delicious)

• Diesel’s new watch: Style trumps functionality: Yes, another example of counterfunctionality in the watch world, a favorite topic of mine, as you know. “The watch face is perplexingly blank; but two micro-clocks on each side of the casing provide a total of four timetelling indicators.” $365.
• Product Displacement, continued: Follow-up on Eyecube contains other interesting examples.
• Cover versions – a set on Flickr: Classic records lost in time and format, re-emerged as Pelican books. Super! Via Listenerd
• On the electric guitar: “It is the symbol of liberation for the very practical reason that the guitarist can wander around while playing. He can smoke, spit or even sing while he plays. Electric guitarists.. are the dancers among modern musicians. Even Madonna has occasionally adopted a guitar as the necessary pendant of strutting musicianship. It is better to dance a bit with a guitar (Keith Richards) than dance a lot without one (Mick Jagger).” I don’t agree with everything in this essay, but the guy makes some pretty interesting observations.
• 25 logos with hidden messages: Via coudal