The Oculus Yacht is a 250 feet, long distance cruising "whale" capable of speeds upto 25 knots and transporting 12 people in ultimate nautical luxury. It is the first yacht from Schöpfer Yachts LLC and was designed by E. Kevin Schöpfer, founder and owner of his namesake company. Would look great moored next to the Protein Wally.

Amazing. Directed by Thibaut de Longeville and via: http://www.lamjc.com/

Our longtime friends at onedotzero are looking for your creative output for their upcoming "adventures in motion" tour which kicks off in London at BFI Southbank on 9-13 September.

MTV and Swatch have got together with Behance to find the world's best 2D, 3D, graphic art, illustration, fashion, motion design and film talents.

Called MTV Playground, you will have the chance to win $20,000 and the opportunity to have their work featured on MTV. Sounds good? Sign up here ...

If you ever get bored of Vice's Dos and Don'ts then this is where you can go to Look at this Fucking Hipster:

Props to cuz Ciaran for the link.

These are genius. More over on Kottke ...

See, adverting can be good if it's done right.

All the designers, all the time. You can find it here: http://www.tweeeeet.com/

Sweet. Props to Mr Tantramar.

NYC based Colossal Media will hand paint your billboards for you for that authentic touch. Via the equally awesome Missbehave magazine. Am loving the original work they did with Shepard Fair for Dewar's, original 1960's style.

Finally! A super simple out-of-the-box hack c/o AnchorFree for all those non-Americans who want to find out what all the Hulu fuss is about ... and they've even made a version for your iPhone. Happy days.

I had no idea the incredible range of projects Wellcome Trust have funded over the years. It ranges from kids books to this award winning documentary. They've even made a little video to show them off, not that I presume they are the showing off kind of people.

Damn! My favourite magazine has just hired my favourite designer to make my favourite things. Expect good results.

Mr Blaire MacIntryre shows us the way forward. Now *this* is what I've been waiting for. Props to @ammonite for the link.

After more than 50 years of experimentation, physicists are hoping to develop the first form of nuclear fusion technology that produces more energy than it consumes. Within the next fortnight, researchers at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in California will fire 192 separate laser beams capable of generating 500 trillion watts - 1,000 times the power of the US national grid - for a fraction of a second.

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Even though it's aimed at a younger audience, it's good to see game play and genetics coming together, especially in Darwin's 150th anniversary year. Routes is an online adventure following comedian Katherine Ryan as she tries to find out whether her genes or her environment have given her cancer and lupus by the age of 23. Developed by Channel 4 Education in association with the Wellcome Trust it aim to explore wht information is hidden in one’s personal genome and how dangerous is it to divulge such data. The fun begins late January.

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Starting the new year on a good note. I've been tracking Objectified for a while as it comes from Swiss Dots, who are the same people who made the design porn feature that is Helvetica.

Happy holidays Protein peeps and here's to 2009 being yours and mine.

Our good friends at Resident Advisor have given us 5 pairs of tickets to their awesome Christmas party this Saturday at Matter. I know it's a long way away, but this is the best line-up the club has had and we're not just saying that because they are our mates. Fancy winning? Simple, first five people to hit us up with a good enough reason gets to go. Good luck!

Boom! Forget the fact it looks awesome and works like a dream, the above JS-909 is entirely built in javascript which means it's iPhone friendly and therefore good for some mobile beats at your next house party. Sweet.

Perfection is every sense. Via our friends over at Core 77

We're doing a little Christmas jam this Thursday with our man Dante Fried Chicken as part of Mutate Britain at Cordy House. We're bringing him over from NYC to cook up a fine feast and then leave it to the Patchwork Pirates & Co to kill it on the decks. It's open invite for all Protein peeps, but you *must* RSVP as the list is supatight. More details here and this is how his last party went down out.

New dopeness by Evan Roth of Graffiti Research Labs for Hov’s latest cut off the up-coming Notorious film soundtrack.