I go to a sixth grade play -- Design follies -- The home magazine kitchen -- Refrigerator doors and message centers -- High-technology gadgets -- The teddy -- How long is noon? -- Real time -- Nature's packaging -- Evolution versus design -- Turn signals are the facial expressions of automobiles -- Book jackets and science -- Brain power -- Hofstadter's law -- One chance in a million -- Coffee cups in the cockpit -- Writing as design, design as writing.