Archive for October, 2003

German architect Werner Aisslinger has developed LoftCube, a tiny “mobile home for urban nomad” that is made to be placed atop urban rooftops. It is meant to be helicoptered aloft, on assumes.

I’m gonna see what’s playing at The Empty Bottle next time I’m in Chicago

Elliott Smith was found dead Tuesday in his Los Angeles apartment from an apparent self-inflicted knifewound. Listen to a few snippets of his music.

What happened? Did you just come back one day after work and find your front tire stolen and then you think to yourself, “oh well, I never liked that piece of crap anyway.” Or did you just forget where you parked it? Think you took the bus that day instead of the bike? Why did you abandon your bike?

Doorsteps is a terrific little animation.

The New York Times has switched to the Cheltenham typeface throughout the paper.

Here’s Terry, from Ages of Metal, a celebration of heavy rock in 5 inch plastic figurines. Designed by James Jarvis. Other collections include the Forever Sensible Motorcycle Club and Juvenile Delinquents. Let’s not for get Lars either.

130 polaroids one inside the other over the past seven years from German photographer Mark-Steffen Goewecke.

Aw crap, now the President’s spirit has been cursed and tossed into the Ping River in northern Thailand.

In a parallel universe far, far away there is another houze.

Get the new iPod Software for Windows. It’s head and shoulders and ass over any software you are now using for playing mp3s on your windoze machine. Delete musicmatch from your machine.

The Great MP3 Caper.

The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe floating 1 million miles from Earth has provided a startling new description of the universe. First off, the big bang happened exactly 16.7 billion years ago and is still continuing. And here’s the universe’s current recipe: 4% baryonic matter (stuff like atoms and energy we can measure), 23% dark matter, and 73% powerful and elusive dark energy.

Christopher Wilcha And John Freyer thrift across America in a 1978 Ambulance. I’m watching out for Second Hand Stories this season on PBS.

When I was about 8 I probably thought that if I worked hard enough and built enough kewl lego thingies, then when I grew up I get a job as a Lego Master Builder. Why did I let that dream die?

Human heart found on I-75/85 by inmate work crew.

Seven foot, seven inch tall basketball star Manute Bol is set to make his debut as a horse jockey this coming Saturday.

It’s not necessarily fast food and portion size, says an article in the NYT Magazine, which has made U.S. citizenry so damn fat. It’s the overproduction of corn and an abundance of cheap corn sweeteners, cornfed meat and chicken that’s to blame.

The dumbass 26 year-old fan who cost the Cubs game 6 last night was escorted by security guards out of Wrigley Field with his head covered with a jacket because hostile fans were throwing beer at him and cursing at him.

If you’re like me and are sick of visiting places just because of tourist book reviews, dramatic scenery, preponderance of yummy restaurants, good live music scene, or other arbitrary reasons, then you should try browsing the Degree Confluence Project to pick your next destination by its longitude and latitude. The project is trying to creates an organized sampling of the world by visiting each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location.