Friday Frisson: Early Edition

The last few weeks have sucked. And so I am proposing a nice counterpoint to all that suckage, right here. I know that it’s still only Thursday on my side of the rock, but we’re going to get our Friday Frisson on early. Here, then, are a few small yet very pleasing delights.

CPUs. Getting my fangirl on here. CPUs are Cayce Pollard Units, per William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition–Cayce being the branding-sensitive protagonist with a stringent fashion sense born as much of necessity as of style:

What people take for relentless minimalism is a side effect of too much exposure to the reactor-cores of fashion. This has resulted in a remorseless paring-down of what she can and will wear. She is, literally, allergic to fashion. She can only tolerate things that could have been worn, to a general lack of comment, during any year between 1945 and 2000. She’s a design-free zone, a one-woman school of anti whose very austerity periodically threatens to spawn its own cult.

Given my overwhelming love for the novel and for Cayce in particular, this layout of her wardrobe (and suggested wardrobe items) makes me a little drooly.

Beyond the Pale. Y’all, I am obsessed. Everything about this blog is fantastic. Miss Nightingale, its author, is a perfume-maker (for serious) who curates the tidiest, most excellent collection of Victoriana, fashion, art and assorted oddities.

This house on Design*Sponge. I could look at it for hours. Probably already have, actually.

What small things are you loving? Tell me about them!