We haven't had some good thread recommendations lately, other than some of our official events. I thought I'd take a moment to suggest a couple of recent threads that I find pretty interesting.
Sara's latest thread is a great idea. It essentially asks you to show everybody a project that you're currently working on - it could be photography or a blog or any kind of hobby that you can post about. I am looking forward to seeing what people come up with for this one.
I think this thread speaks for itself. HopefulOtaku posted this (with some nice images as well). I've seen these backpacks around the city where I live and they actually look pretty cool.
pax et agape has posted a thread all about digital downloads of anime (which kind of became a general discussion about downloading all kinds of content for free). The views in this thread vary quite a lot, with some great insight on both sides. I've really enjoyed following this discussion so far.