the best calendar

I needed a calendar.  I searched amazon.  Below is the first result for “calendar” under the Office Supplies department.  I bought it.  It will be here in three days.  I cannot wait.

mall squatting

Fascinating article on a couple in Rhode Island who responded to a megamall (or “Lifestyle Center”) built in their (former) neighborhood by creating a guerilla apartment within it and living there regularly and for long periods of time over a span of  four years.  I love the fact that they took the motivating factors behind [...]

well it’s not supertopical anymore but

somebody with a sense of humor and a good grasp of the subprime mortgage fiasco had a good time with this:

just click through the images. I thought it was worthwhile.
oh, and http://thingsididlastnight.com/

aahh subway monster!

he’s done other things, but this by far is the most ambitious and ballin’ one…
ps. ryan and melissa are the straight tightest

powerpoint karaoke?

yes, while the two have existed separately in the past, it is a relatively new phenomenon that has melded them together in a glorious combination of improv, corporate-speak, and a healthy amount of alcohol.
In a typical event, a few brave people volunteer to “present” a random deck of slides pulled off the Web, or borrowed [...]

author is prone to extreme bouts of enthusiasm

Take Away Shows, a project (based in paris) that records various alt/indie musicians performing songs in uncommon venues.  like the street.  or a freight elevator.  or a rooftop.  all are great, but some are especially incredible:

some of the copy that accompanies the video waxes a bit poetic, but the wonderful direction/sound/locations more than make up [...]

“The Earth has a new centre and it is a tiny desert kingdom gone mad.”

Fascinating article about Dubai: its past (brief), its present (glittering) and its future (bound to be spectacular).  Also contains the interesting factoid that Dubai, with it’s 1.5 million people, owns the same amount of foreign assets (including US debt) as China, whose population dwarfs Dubai many times over.

It sounds like a surreal, magnificent, exploding shrine [...]

Outsourcing:

No longer just for companies.
I remember my professor in “Technology Targeting Social Issues” class mentioning that he did something like this, which is a really interesting (I think) phenomenon that will increase in popularity as long as there is such a great disparity between wages in the US and other countries, and information continues to [...]

the road

ever since The Morning News picked The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, as the winner for their 2007 Tournament of Books, I’ve been intending to read it. Just finished it a few days ago. first book I’ve finished in an embarrassingly long time, but it was incredible.
I always thought Stephen King’s The Stand would stand [...]

drugs are bad good your choice

Prohibition has failed–again. Instead of treating the demand for illegal drugs as a market, and addicts as patients, policymakers the world over have boosted the profits of drug lords and fostered narcostates that would frighten Al Capone. Finally, a smarter drug control regime that [...]