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I've been wanting to read Paul Graham's Hacker's and Painting for quite some time, but I hadn't thought of looking for related articles.
Werner pointed out Paul's excellent essay "Made in USA" about American's and design vs speed. Many great observations.
And his commentary on Taste for Makers is also an enjoyable read that plants (or re-affirms) many good core design beliefs in your head.
My race helmet is no longer valid after the 2004 season since it only conforms to Snell 1995 safety levels and there is a 10 year safety limit. I've always liked Arai since I never liked the fit of other helmets I've on and will probably end up ordering a new Arai (unfortunately Snell 2005 helmets don't come out until next October).
Although it doesn't matter much to me, my teammates have been giving me a hard time all year about having a simple white helmet. Still, it would be really cool to have a painted. Perhaps not as outrageous as Scotty's ;).
I found a few different companies that paint helmets:
Probably makes sense to run a short helmet design contest and give away something (an Amazon gift certificate?) to the winner.
Helmet designs I like:
Engadget interviewing Caterina Fake, one of Flickr's co-founders today, and she talked about one of the many tagged groups of photos: The squared circle Pool. At this point it consists of 1600+ photos contributed by photographers around the world of circles made square through photography. An amusing look at the world we live in!