The Museum of Modern Art’s new 630,000-square-foot, Yoshio Taniguchi-designed Manhattan facility opens to the public on November 20th. The new digs have nearly double the size, a five-fold increase in space for educational and research activities, a 110-foot atrium, and a 1945 Bell 47D-1 helicopter hung by curators over the grand staircase.
Got some great ideas for costumes this year from the Seattle Stranger’s list of 2004’s Scariest Halloween Costumes.
Drunken elephants trampled to death three people after getting drunk on rice beer. In the north-eastern Indian state of Assam local villagers keep their homemade rice beer in drums outside their homes with no bouncers to protect it.
So I was reading the latest issue of The American Conservative (why are you laughing? it’s true) and I found that I was a lot more consevative than I thought. It seems that some of the editors of The American Conservative have endorsed Kerry for President. George W. Bush has come to embody a politics that is antithetical to almost any kind of thoughtful conservatism, says the editorial.
Analysts are predicting as many as 75% of Floridians will turn out to vote next week. And the New York Times reports that tens of thousands of voters had not yet received absentee ballots that the Broward County elections office had sent them several weeks ago.
The New York City Subway has turned 100 and the New York Times has a nice multimedia Flash feature on the system and the culture around it. Included is a little interview with every straphanger’s favorite New Yorker, Dr. Zizmor.
I could be wrong, but I think Eminem is calling for a revolution.
I’m voting for Chris Christmas Rodriguez to replace Santa this year.
The legendary British DJ John Peel has died. A radio DJ for more then 40 years, first briefly in the U.S. and then as a member of BBC One’s original lineup. He was, as the BBC described, a radio DJ who remained at the cutting-edge of popular taste and he had an uncanny ability to discover and play the best new bands before they broke out. His Peel Sessions continued to break new bands for decades in live in-house recordings. Peel died of a heart attack a while vacationing with his wife in Peru. He was 65.
Marla Olmstead’s abstract work has been compared to Pollock, Mir
The Baghdad blogger, Salam Pax, whose annonymous online descriptions of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Baghdad earned him worldwide fame and a regular column in the UK Guardian, writes about a recent trip to Washington D.C.
The U.S. military knows where Osama bin Laden is: South Waziristan in the Baluchistan Mountains of the Baluchistan region of Pakistan. This is according to a member of the 9-11 commission, John Lehman, the former secretary of the Navy under President Reagan. “There is an American presence in the area, but we can’t just send in troops. If we did, we could have another Vietnam, and the United States cannot afford that right now,” said Lehman.
Except in zero-gravity.
You weren’t expecting to see this today. Check out this film of a Mexican pistol duel from 1896. It comes from an exhibit of photos and films by Gabriel Veyre, a French photographer and Lumi
Fantastic site for found type fans. Public Lettering: A Walk in Central London is based on a walk by English font designer Phil Baines for his graphic design students to explore opportunities for specialist, site
Axis of Evil pillar Iran endorses Bush for president. I don’t know what this means either.
During every election year since 1936, when the Washington Redskins have won their last home game before the election, the incumbent president has stayed in power. The Redskins will play the Green Bay Packers at home on Oct. 31, 1pmEST. Currently, both teams have the same record of 2 wins and 4 losses.
For those who have a habit of reading corrections in the news paper, try Regret the Error. It’s a daily blog dedicated only to newspaper corrections.
The elusive Indian bandit Koose Muniswamy Veerappan has been gunned down by authorities in the southern India state of Tamil Nadu. Veerappan had spent 30 years on the run and had been accused of murdering police officers, slaughtering elephants and kidnapping a movie star. He was thought to have smuggled ivory from 2000 slaughtered elephants and to have killed more than 150 people, including police informants whose bodies Veerappan hung from trees. Though among some of India’s poor he was celebrated as a Robin Hood-style hero who gave money to impoverished locals, and they in return helped him evade capture on several occasions. At least two Bollywood movies were made about his story.
Bin Laden is in China and will soon be captured and transfered to the U.S. just in time for the elections. At least that’s what a poorly google-translated article in Spain’s el Mundo newspaper says.