Playhouse: As Jack Frost makes his presence felt, the winter cocooning begins—and you start to notice how decrepit and grodulated your surroundings are. Time to take a look at some bleeding-edge design and wish you had a Monster Housestyle budget to outfit your pad with it. Sure, if you filled your home with Crib Candy’s recommendations, it’d look like a cross between the Playboy Mansion and 2001: A Space Odyssey, but what’s wrong with that at www.cribcandy.com.

Suburban assault: A few years ago, it looked like we were in the midst of an SUV-size arms race that wasn’t going to slow down anytime soon. That turned out to be wrong, but somebody didn’t get the memo. These customizers-cumsociopaths take Ford F-650 trucks, which are normally used for, say, municipal roadwork, and turn them into giant-sized SUVs and pick-ups for professional ball-players. Prices start at approximately a mortgage downpayment. Hear Hugo Chavez laughing his way to the bank at www.f650pickups.com.

Comments? Michael Citrome