The results are in for the 'Wild, Weird, and Wacky Street Names Contest' sponsored by The Car Connection. Top craziest street name in the U.S.?: Psycho Path Pvt.. Runners Up: Divorce Court, Clinton and Fidelity streets, Unexpected Road. Yup, the'yre real roads. You drive and get lost on them... View full entry
Well it seems I'm not the only one who is rereading Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. Author of Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser lectures on meat packing industry in belly of the beast, TEXAS. Cut that MEAT, Cut that MEAT! RiceU View full entry
The LAPD wants to control the city's highways - and track the cars that drive on them, starting with stolen vehicles. Meet "the LAPD's high-speed plate-reading network." Wired. Earlier. View full entry
On NPR this weekend aired a pre-recorded 15 minute interview on To the best of our knowledge talking about humanitarian design and who I felt were the real 'star architects' out there. This was recorded before Hurricane Katrina and therefore focused mainly on post-tsunami reconstruction. View full entry
"The gypsy-visionary, social-scientist, explorer-architect, eco-rogue, control-freak artist" Andrea Zittel shows "a glimmer of selflessness, creativity and fearlessness in the face of a technologically advanced culture flirting with geo-meteorological suicide." strangeweather | new museum... View full entry
If you get a face transplant, will you look like your donor? 3D imaging on the bbc View full entry
A US-run prison in Afghanistan is quietly expanding to a capacity larger than Guantanamo, while avoiding international oversight under questionable holding conditions. It's carceral architecture in the era of the GWOT: NYT. Earlier. View full entry
a crazy reblog... Technorati Favorites allows you to aggregate 50 favorite feeds and automatically gives birth to one compact blog roll of all the goodies. Here's mine. | more at the javlog View full entry
Artist Christian Nold collaborating with residents of the Greenwich Peninsula is creating a live emotion map of the area that explores people's relationship with their local environment. See map in Google Earth - see project website View full entry
Banksy pieces on Melrose. You can see more here on LAist. | via View full entry
LONDON - Mayor Ken Livingstone refused to apologize for comparing a Jewish reporter to a Nazi camp guard, and now he's facing four weeks off the job ”” suspended for bringing his office into disrepute. yahoo View full entry
Gunmen have taken advantage of Brazil's carnival commotion to steal paintings by Picasso, Dali, Matisse and Monet from a Rio de Janeiro museum. They shut down the security cameras and then slipped away in a crowd of Samba revellers, said museum officials. Pablo Picasso's The Dance, Salvador... View full entry
Assignment #46 Draw Raymond Carver's Cathedral. via Miranda July & Harrell Fletcher's Learning to Love You More View full entry
Dear Mexican, Why do Mexicans call white people gringos? View full entry
Visitors to Central Park and Prospect Park this September will encounter an 8,000-square-foot tent city. The "refugee camps" won't house any actual refugees, but are designed to help New Yorkers understand what it is like to live in one. The exhibit is planned by a humanitarian group, Doctors... View full entry