January 2012
6 posts
Continental Breakup | This American Life →
Meyerson Hall: Butt-Fugly Building of the Week →
Architecture Ryan Gosling →
October 2011
4 posts
5 tags
Radiohead – Roseland Ballroom (9-28-11) →
via Troubled Souls Unite
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September 2011
16 posts
Next Stop Beaujolais: A Metro Map of French Wines... →
Yay, the Gissen map made it onto Strange Maps.
Boeing 787 Celebration Starts With Hand Delivery →
Why? Why, sky? Why do you look like shit? You look just the same as ever, just...
– Real Dan Lyons
Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books →
via NPR
The City as The Ultimate Bubble →
via 3quarksdaily
Manhattan Says Goodbye To Its Last Single-Space... →
via NPR
The parking meter was replaced with a credit-card-accepting version that speaks seven languages. Is this progress…?
It is like medicine that you give to a sick person and he doesn’t feel any...
– Greece Scrambles To Show It Can Cut Budget Deficit , via NPR
2011 Emmy Awards Winners →
via Wikipedia
Jonah Lehrer on Yogurt, Gut Feelings and the Mind... →
via The WSJ
That’s how Michael is always so calm.
How Wine Became Metropolitan: An Interview with... →
via Edible Geography
This is awesome, and I wonder if we could pull it off one day.
Germany Plans for Possible Greek Default →
via Der Spiegel
Space Debris Has Reached A 'Tipping Point' →
via NPR
PLANETES, here we come!
August 2011
9 posts
Models of 2011 Solar Decathlon Homes →
via ArchDaily
The Copyright Nightmare of "I Have a Dream" →
via Motherboard
The good news is that you are judging them [the surviving King family], not by the color of their skin, but by the quality of their character. The bad news is the quality of their character.
#37244906
South America: why the silence? →
via New Statesman
Star Wars Architectural Drawings →
via ArchDaily
Forbes’ top 10 list of most powerful women.
1: Angela Merkel 2: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who was No. 5 in 2010. 3: Brazil’s new president, Dilma Rousseff. She was No. 95 last year. 4: Indra Nooyi, CEO of PepsiCo. In 2010, she was No. 6. 5: Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, who was No. 66 in 2010. 6: Melinda Gates, co-founder and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She was No. 27 in...
Do Skirts Get Shorter When Wealth Declines? →
via Dollars and Sex
Prosecutors Ask Judge To Dismiss Charges Against... →
via NPR
DSK is free; only his career was ruined. Well, he’s rich enough.
How Vincenzo Peruggia Created the Mona Lisa, by... →
via Picture This
Cowboys and Aliens Review →
via SomethingAwful
July 2011
5 posts
Governor's Report Details Widespread, Organized... →
via NPR
Oh, Atlanta
Georgia Farmers Hail China's New Taste For Pecans →
via NPR
Personal connection with this story? :)
Will Switzerland Ban Power-Point? →
via BigThink
Cy Twombly, American Artist, Is Dead at 83 →
via the New York Times
June 2011
18 posts
‘The idea is that we won’t let Greece fall, we will defend the euro,...
– French Banks Ready For Big Greek Debt Rollover via NPR
The Technium: The Clock in the Mountain →
A 10,000 year clock funded by Jeff Bezos, huh?
Research shows promise in reversing Type 1... →
via The LA Times
Imported Beavers Gnaw Away At Argentina's Forests →
via NPR
They really are cute little monsters.
Polymer - Bank of Canada →
Yea~ Canada!
For the first time, federal auditors are suggesting that some or all of the cash...
– Via $6.6B Meant For Iraq May Be ‘Largest Theft’ In U.S. History @ NPR
Oh United States…