"I never dreamed about being president. When I was growing up, I wanted to be Willie Mays." - #43 "baseball been berry berry good to me." - chico escuelathis week's pregame festivities featured a demonstration inning by minor league all-stars. mascots were present. holz.box hit a line drive foul... View full entry
Two articles on what happens when they meet.LA Times | NYT View full entry
"Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast." The Guardian View full entry
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Three paintings produced in the 1950s by a chimpanzee named Congo sold in 2005 for a total of $26,352 at a London auction. One especially profitable painter is Towan, a 40-year-old orangutan at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle. His paintings sell for more than $1,300. AP View full entry
In order to make room for some new shirts we need to sell off the remaining t-shirts and hoodies. The crazy low prices will only be available to subscribers of the Archinect Weekly newsletter. If you're not already a subscriber to our weekly newsletter, sign up here, and stay tuned to the... View full entry
A team of scientists at Purdue University working on the DOE and NASA funded Vulcan Project, have already yielded a significant discovery: Previous CO2 estimates that used population as a proxy for emissions overestimated the Northeast's greenhouse-gas generation, while underestimating the... View full entry
Photographer Sze Tsung Leong trained as an architect at Berkeley and Harvard. His images of contemporary and historical urban landscapes are influenced by his understanding of spatial context and the power of history and it's erasure.NYT He believes that, “The horizon is such a basic way of... View full entry
1- "Greensumption" via John Jourden 2- "Talk Like an Encryption" via puddles 3- Somebody asks for a simple direction and ends up getting directed towards a blow job. Only in Archinect! 4- Thread Central is now over 20,000 posts. Every page, 201 of them as we speak, is a room full of friends!... View full entry
An unlikely row has erupted in France over suggestions that the semicolon's days are numbered; worse, the growing influence of English is apparently to blame. Guardian View full entry
Our latest banner advertiser has a great looking office loft space available in Greenpoint, just outside of Manhattan. Click the banner, or this link, for more information View full entry
Who knew that the first Louis Vuitton boutique in Brooklyn would touch down smack in the middle of an exhibition in one of the borough’s most venerable art institutions? But there it is, at the Brooklyn Museum, bright and gleaming and blending seamlessly with its setting: a sleek, stylish... View full entry
accoring to jerru guo, the '08 olympics may not be so great for beijing, or china...link "The capital hasn't seen this kind of an architectural makeover since the Mongols overtook the city, but a new Beijing may not be what's best for a modern China..." View full entry
Collaboration between science and design is yielding a radical new way of visualizing, understanding, and manipulating the natural world. MIND08 is a conference, presented by Seed and MoMA and inspired by Design and the Elastic Mind, which aims to catalyze this convergence... Bringing together an... View full entry
13 million Brits suffer from nomophobia. View full entry