Last spring, the tower was the scene for a world record BASE jump. Video on current.com > View full entry
A crush of overeager shoppers tore down the front doors and thronged into a Wal-Mart store in suburban New York, killing a temporary employee. NYT | All Eyes on Holiday Shopping Turnout in Bleak Economy View full entry
A French appeals court says Voodoo dolls of President Nicolas Sarkozy may remain on sale, but must carry a notice saying that pricking them harms the president's dignity. AP View full entry
For those of you who may not check the news very often ... At least eight separate but coordinated terrorist attacks struck the heart of Mumbai, the very cosmopolitan commercial capital of India, on Wednesday night, including "assaults on at least two five-star hotels, the city’s largest... View full entry
This ain't no farmin' garlic! South Korea's Daewoo Logistics this week announced it had negotiated a 99-year lease on 3.2 million acres of farmland on the "dirt-poor" island of Madagascar, off Africa's Indian Ocean coast. That's nearly half of Madagascar's arable land, and Daewoo plans to put... View full entry
Liz McCartney, dedicated to helping survivors of Hurricane Katrina rebuild their homes, has been named the 2008 CNN Hero of the Year. CNN View full entry
Eli Broad, the billionaire philanthropist who is one of this city’s biggest arts patrons, has offered $30 million to help rescue the financially beleaguered Museum of Contemporary Art if the museum’s trustees and other patrons also step up their donations. NYT View full entry
Called the "Atlas of True Names," the new map traces the etymological roots of place names and then translates them into English. The "City of Boatmen" is Paris. The Land of the Fire Keepers is Azerbaijan. And Italy means "calf." Or, you could be from the 'Opium' province in Turkey. spiegel View full entry
Thinking about what I can do to cause a controversy today, I decided to take myself and Tina to Venice Beach early in the morning, take some pictures and talk about things that might offend some readers for not talking about Pritzker Prize winners and 007 James Bond personally blowing up modern... View full entry
Stewart Brand works on the Clock of the Long Now, a timepiece that counts down the next 10,000 years. It's a beautiful project that asks us to think about the far, far future. Here, he discusses a tricky side problem with the Clock: Where can we put it?TED Talks and Visit the official website View full entry
Less than a year after the Los Angeles County Museum of Art opened a $56 million museum for contemporary art named for Eli Broad, the billionaire philanthropist who is its largest benefactor, Mr. Broad has decided to build his own museum and is considering a site just down the street. NYT | Audio... View full entry
Italians are critical of the recent appointment of Mario Resca, a former McDonald's executive and casino manager, to Italy's general director of museum development. Guardian View full entry
Writer, curator and philosopher Boris Groys gives a keynote lecture on how design today functions as a leading medium of self-revelation and self-positioning in public space. Arguing that design has acquired a new ethical dimension, he contended that where there was once religion, there is now... View full entry
French Architect Jean-Pierre Houdin has come up with a pretty convincing theory - 18 hours in front of the pyramid with an infrared camera could prove it. Unlocking the Great Pyramid airs Sunday, November 16, at 9 p.m. on the National Geographic Channel. View full entry
Massive wild fires, dubbed 'Sayre Fire' in Sylmar, threatening San Fernando Valley (aka 'Valley.') Many freeways are shot down as the fires are edging the densely populated urban areas within the grid. "Our No. 1 priority right now is life, and people have to get out of the path of the fire,"... View full entry