Portmeirion, a resort where no one has ever lived, is a fantasy village of stage-set tricks and juxtapositions designed by a self-taught Welsh architect. NYTimes/Travel View full entry
An ambitious project to create an online catalogue of every book in every language ever published is under way. Public goodwill is not in doubt, but some libraries remain to be convinced. BBC View full entry
Building is booming in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, but Human Rights Watch alleges that the migrant workers vital to constructing these projects are subject to “abusive labor practices”—and architects, it contends, are complicit in the problem. Business Week | via ArchRecord View full entry
A 28-year-old landscape architect from Harpenden helped the British Army near Basra, working with fellow soldiers from his unit, Ten Company, Fourth Parachute Battalion. thisishertfordshire.co.uk View full entry
Ian Bogost : "Despite a few more pointed questions than we might have heard otherwise, the CNN/YouTube debate produced the same mode of political discourse we've seen for years: the sound bite.”Kirsten A. Foot and Steven M. Schneider: “…demonstrates increasing dependence by... View full entry
Pascual Sisto dreams up a beautiful little traffic dis/utopia with some clever slicing and splicing of a highway video. watch. via sc.ch View full entry
With the help of simple tools introduced by Internet companies recently, millions of people are trying their hand at cartography, drawing on digital maps and annotating them with text, images, sound and videos, collectively creating a new kind of atlas that is likely to be both richer and messier... View full entry
A few days after MIT announced the first robotic ankle, a company in the UK has outfitted 5 people with bionic arms. TouchBionics Iraq Vet Shows Off Bionic Hand philly.com | BBC Video | National Geographic Stephen Colbert's iEYE Colbert Report View full entry
Maybe you've heard of globfrag. Coined from the words globalization and fragmentation, globfrag means that scattered and uncertain state of mind created by increased technology and contradictory knowledge. It means the inability to focus that comes from knowing very little about a great number of... View full entry
“His practice offers an extremely original analysis of modernist and contemporary architecture and its relationship to landscape. He investigates buildings in terms of vision and the visionary, the individual and the institution, and the relationship of utopian schemes, whether successes or... View full entry
A step-by-step guide to the making-of Hirst's $100 million diamond-encrusted platinum skull. Supertouch View full entry
US residents with access to a TV tonight might want to tune in to PBS to watch Prison Town, USA, a new documentary. The film asks: "What happens when a struggling rural community tries to revive its economy by inviting prisons in?" View full entry
State officials have determined that a West Bronx apartment building is eligible to be recognized on the state and national registers of historic places as the birthplace of hip-hop. Normally, buildings less than 50 years old are not eligible for designation, but there is an exception for... View full entry
According to Slate's Chief Political Correspondent, last night's Democratic presidential debate, a highly hyped experiment in user generated content, was successful. Test Tube | Share your view in the forum. View full entry
Wired presents the 2nd annual How To Wiki, your user-generated guide to DIY culture. Among other things, learn how to turn your flickr crush into real romance, or how to make an ipod nano case from a bike inner tube. View full entry