This Week in Awesome (8/25/12)

We're not at full capacity here, guess it's just one of those late-August weekends...

Some of you may have done away with your hard-wired landline phone. If you're young enough, you may not realize that those phones used to have dials instead of buttons. (Ftrain via The Awl)

This is the sort of thing I have often thought about, and would do myself, if I had the skills and the time. (BuzzFeed via Fantasy Floorplans)

And finally this week, 25 insane but real informercials. (Time)