Warning: this post is about furniture. Fast Company has an article on the decline of the furniture company Design Within Reach. The article focuses on how in an effort to cut costs DWR "copied" designs it had earlier sold as a distributor. Full Article at Marginal Revolution

In this month's issue of Fast Company, we looked at a startup and Cornell University spin-off Novomer, which claims it can make plastics from CO2 captured from factories. Full Article at Fast Company

PC retail giant Dell has confirmed that Twitter has contributed $6.5 Million in sales to the company’s total revenue, since it first began Tweeting 2 years ago – that’s about $3.25 million annually. Full Article at PSFK

To no one's surprise, Facebook's latest privacy changes -- which openly encourage greater information sharing -- have failed to go unnoticed by its more than 350 million members, and the myriad media types, bloggers, privacy advocates, and... Full Article at MediaPost.com

Giant's Causeway, left, is surely beaten in the Eclipse as Kalanisi goes past in one of the best races of the decade. Photograph: Toby Melville/PA Most punters, if they're honest, have the clearest memories of the races on which they won the most money. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited

Many social-media thought leaders, including famously pseudonymistic Dooce, have spoken out against the fines. In response, FTC representative Richard Cleland told Fast Company, "That $11,000 fine is not true. Full Article at Yahoo! Buzztracker

As Fast Company reported, the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme--aglobal watchdog group created by the United Nations in 2002--was supposed to have removed all but 1% of these so-called "blood diamonds" from the market. Full Article at Fast Company

In a snark-filled "design" item on Fast Company, Cliff Kuang unloads on the new City of Philadelphia logo.  It's the one with the new "Life. Liberty. And You" slogan. Full Article at Philly.com

Fast Company profiles Whole Foods CEO John Mackey and his conversion from hippie to libertarian preaching the gospel of what he calls You are currently signed in as (nobody). Sign Out Do these matryoshkas measure up? Yes. Full Article at The Food Section

I was recently asked to highlight some of Hewlett-Packard’s environmental printing programs, but after reviewing the materials the PR folks sent, I decided the more interesting story was to reflect on how HP got listed #1 in Newsweek’s recent rankings... Full Article at Triple Pundit

The magazine rack More News It’s cheaper over there Getting Food and Drug Administration approval for a new drug or treatment can take years and cost millions of dollars, notes Fast Company (December-January), because human clinical trials are required... Full Article at KansasCity.com

I am new to your publication, but is it your editorial policy to interview someone just to do a hatchet job on them? If you wanted to trash John Mackey why not just go ahead and put it out there? Full Article at Fast Company

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - An important consumer safety alert, a recall of two million Slim Fast shakes. The Slim Fast Company and Food and Drug Administration are recalling 2 million cans of its milk-based liquid shakes. Full Article at ABC4.com (KTVX)

We can think of a few fun ways to get you through your next sick (or slow) day. Slow-tech star Redbox is expanding into video games and launched an iPhone app to locate specific movie titles at different kiosks. Full Article at Fast Company

Fast Company admits corporate policy compliance training films are a drag, but they've found someone who can "Make Corporate Training Rock": Russ Berland, who devised vignettes in the manner of The Office to spice up the traditional sexual harassment... Full Article at Village Voice

DENVER -- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Mojofiti™, a global network of people working together to break down language barriers, today announced the founders of CRONAN, Michael Cronan and Karin Hibma, have joined its board of directors. Full Article at Freshnews.com

Fun for political obsessives: Fast Company informs us that the Good Guide, a green-products advocate, has analyzed the political contributions of several companies to create a Democratic-to-Republican litmus graphic by means of which their readers... Full Article at Village Voice

SEATTLE, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Cor.kz Wine Info, the leading wine application for mobile devices, has partnered with Occipital, the makers of RedLaser, to bring bar code reading for wine to the iPhone. Full Article at PR Newswire

We love technology here at Fast Company. And we're big on design too. Which is partly what makes RED's digital cameras quite so awesome, since they mix the two exquisitely. And the newly official RED Scarlet may even change the DSLR game too. Full Article at Fast Company