Sri Lanka should ditch a plan to permanently turn its clocks back 30 minutes in April because the move could push up the island's energy bill and ward off investors, resident science fiction guru Arthur C Clarke has warned. HTC View full entry
"Candace Dwan Gallery is pleased to present the first exhibition of Stanley Greenberg's new photographs of contemporary architecture under construction. Included in the show are photographs of works by Norman Foster, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Steven Holl, Daniel Libeskind, Yoshio Taniguchi, Winka... View full entry
The Washington Post reports on the release of Google Calendar. with all the usual bells, but free - Calendar Sharing, Invitations, Quick Add, Gmail Integration, Search, Mobile Access, Event Publishing Also Google just won a patent for a voice activated search engine View full entry
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced its 2006 fellows, 187 artists, scholars and scientists who receive awards totaling $7,500,000 (an average of more than $40,000), who are selected on the basis of their "distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for... View full entry
Architecture Foundation announces a call for entries for Architecture Rocks, an architectural gig destined to be a highlight of the second London Architecture Biennale. Taking its lead from great British rock acts, such as Pink Floyd, Suede, and the Pet Shop Boys that have arisen from the world... View full entry
"Would you like your Coke and orange juice medium or large?" Ms. Vargas said into her headset to an unseen woman who was ordering breakfast from a drive-through line. She did not neglect the small details ””"You Must Ask for Condiments," a sign next to her computer terminal instructs... View full entry
Allan Kaprow, who coined the term 'Happening' in the 50s and staged hundreds of them -- unexpected, often absurdist performances in real-life settings -- passed away last friday. Flash-mobs and other art/life boundary-breakers have Kaprow to thank. LAtimes View full entry
To raise the profile of civil engineers in the UK, writers are being offered £35,000-worth of prizes to feature engineering characters on stage, screen or radio. "The group is worried that not enough people are being trained as engineers, something that will lead to a shortage." BBC View full entry
Inspired in part by Super Mario Brothers games, a group of teenage girls in Ohio decided to make "question boxes" to hang around their town last week. Local police were not amused.Spacing View full entry
"Sixty-one years after the end of the war, the authorities reckon some 10,000 people's remains are still to be recovered from beneath Berlin - along with around 75,000 tonnes of unexploded bombs" says Sylvia Brito Morales, a Berliner Unterwelten guide. By Jonathan Gorvett for al jazeera View full entry
"On Thursday, three members of a ski patrol perished on the slopes of Mammoth Mountain while attempting to rope off a geothermal vent whose opening had been obscured by snow. The vent, or fumarole, is a natural emission point of poisonous gas from pockets of molten rock within the Earth's crust... View full entry
A new breed of paternalists is seeking to promote virtue and wisdom by default. Be wary.The Economist View full entry
Histories get lost. That's how life is. Then, when the time is right, they get found. "Energy/Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction 1964-1980" at the Studio Museum in Harlem, is about such a history, which went something like this...NYT View full entry
Burt Hasen sits in his downtown loft, a sketchbook nearby and trays of gnarled paint tubes at hand, contemplating the painful possibility, faced by thousands before him, that he will lose the rent-stabilized home and studio in Lower Manhattan where he has lived and worked for 32 years. NYT View full entry