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Every day, the same, again

87.jpgMan steals house, claimed he purchased it from Yahweh.

Chinese carpenter survives being impaled with a steel pole.

Man caught smuggling 18 monkeys in girdle.

The only bodily fluid you can compost in San Francisco is snot.

Wells Fargo ATM in Antarctica.

Older, more educated workers, have highest length of unemployment.

“But imagine a device,” says Tan Le, founder and president of Emotiv Systems, an electronics company focused on brain-computer interfaces, “that learns how to use you.”

The Internet will run out of Internet addresses in about 1 year’s time.

How best to live our lives in a world where the Internet records everything and forgets nothing? The web means the end of forgetting.

Almost as soon as the first iPhone was introduced in 2007, AT&T realized it might run short of bandwidth. Inside the iPhone network meltdown.

For the first time, research shows that American creativity is declining.

A Method for Creativity – Lessons from Joan Rivers.

Gene linked to aging also linked to Alzheimer’s.

Caterpillars crawl like none other.

Soccer players know the secret of predicting where to go as they navigate around other humans, but the rest of us are dummies. How to walk through crowds.

Designing The Perfectly Smooth Roller Coaster Ride.

Women more likely to give their phone number to a man after they’ve listened to music with romantic lyrics.

If you’re visiting a strange town and need company, you can always rent a friend.

45.jpgInterview with Maurizio Cattelan.

Damien Hirst interview with John LeKay.

Was Mona your last girlfriend? Yes.Interview with John Waters.

Tobias Wong, the enfant terrible of the design world, had died on May 30 at 35, in what authorities ruled a suicide. This was no tortured artist, locked in a downward spiral, friends and family said. Complex, mercurial, mischievous — he was all those things. But he was not miserable.

Heather L. Johnson finds inspiration in the infrastructure systems of cities and their impact on the physical space and experience of urban environments. Referencing both anatomy and machine, Johnson uses delicate embroidery and graphite drawing to consider movement, identity, activity and space.

The Washington obelisk, made of marble, granite, and sandstone, is both the world’s tallest stone structure and the world’s tallest obelisk. There are taller monumental columns, but they are neither all stone nor true obelisks.

Today in cutesy packaging.

Jerry Saltz Studio Visit Report.

At a press conference Tuesday, God Almighty, our Lord and Heavenly Father, gave his strongest indication yet that he might soon step down from his post as the supreme ruler of all things.

Nonexistent people.

Double Rainbow.





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