"Thirty years ago the posters on the Shanghai public transport system screamed Maoist slogans. For the past 10 years they have been hard-sell advertisements for cosmetic surgery clinics and cars. But from next month a more poetic tone will be struck by verses from Blake, Wordsworth, Michael... View full entry
Land of the Big Puts 'Too Big' to the Test... Greenwich, Connecticut, "With plans calling for almost 39,000 square feet in the main building, plus an 1,165-square-foot pool house, the home that Joseph M. Jacobs, a 53-year-old hedge fund manager, wants to build for his family on 11 acres in the... View full entry
Developers and brokers talk about demi-lofts and soft lofts, new-construction lofts, condo lofts and townhouse lofts. But she calls it 'tfol'.latimes, if you wanna discuss View full entry
"Bay Area residents can take a virtual helicopter tour of the region's deadliest geological time bomb, the Hayward Fault, just by pointing and clicking. Unveiled Thursday by the U.S. Geological Survey, the online tour, which resembles an aerial overflight from an altitude of a few hundred feet... View full entry
BRITAIN has banned Tourism Australia's controversial "So where the bloody hell are you?" advertising campaign from TV. Freedom of press? Now you see it, now you don't.australian View full entry
If, one day, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake hits the Pacific NW, do you: a) run away, b) steal a few flat-screen televisions, or c) thank heaven for the recent "'infrastructure interdependencies' workshop in Bellevue, Wash., called Blue Cascades III: Managing Extreme Disasters"? Hint: pick c. ENR. View full entry
Abu Ghraib, the Iraqi prison that became a byword for torture first under Saddam Hussein and later under the American occupation, is to close. Its 4,500 prisoners will be moved to other jails inside Iraq, a US military spokesman said. Indep | related 1 : 2 View full entry
In an effort to create a $20 million endowment for the support of its permanent installations in New York and Texas, the Donald Judd Foundation has decided to sell about 35 Judd sculptures at Christie's in New York on May 9. NEWSgrist View full entry
Bill Wasik , senior editor for Harper's Magazine and inventor of the Flash Mob, assesses the construct as a social experiment. WNYC l related View full entry
Shaking up the meeting of the Congress for New Urbanism, PIPS (the Providence Initiative for Psychogeographic Studies ... or, People Interested in Participatory Sculpture?) is holding Provflux, which is kind of like Conflux. View full entry
A critical look at artist collectives - which substitute the singular artist-as-genius authorship model for "multiplicity, anonymity, unpredictability" ... nytimes | thanks kanarinka View full entry
During the 1990s rebellion by the Tuareg people of northern Mali, Toure was seen as something of a peacemaker by singing in all of the region's languages - Songhai, Fulani and the Tuareg's Tamashek. bbc View full entry
Is blogging the next victim of the celebrity invasion, it is in China. NYT View full entry
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Well, looks like plans to re-kickstart the Star Wars program are well underway with a big lobby-fest in Washington for new contracts. Others, however, are talking about geoengineering a massive solar shade (55, 000 orbiting mirrors) in front of the planet to reflect enough sunlight that could... View full entry