Forest Service officials have scaled back their assessment of how much recreation on national forest land contributes to the American economy, concluding that these activities generate just a tenth of what the Clinton administration estimated. Where did $100B go? read | via View full entry
7.2 Magnitude Temblor Injures Dozens, Shakes Skyscrapers. read View full entry
Pixelsurgeon interviews contemporary surrealist Margot Knight. via wm$na View full entry
Boomerang! With a brief interlude in the 90s the 80s never really ended. We are simply caught in a giant feedback loop. To prove the point of this undeniable fact, I leave you with this clip from Crossfire in 1986 with Frank Zappa. l related l View full entry
Al Qaeda , which translates into the BASE has created a digital space for its operations, but not necessarily as a means of attack-its all about media. WPost View full entry
Yesterday, Joichi Ito wrote an enlighting Op-Ed on the memory and culture in Japan at the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. View full entry
European artist Carsten Höller has designed a transparent Hotel Room sculpture which will hover above the ocean in Norway. via $notArt View full entry
Public bits of private life assembled in one story too much for Google to stomach? NYT View full entry
Peter Jennings, news anchor for ABC's World News Tonight for 22 years, has died at age 67. Jennings was credited with creating the first American news bureau in the Middle East in 1968. He received his American citizenship in 2003. CNN View full entry
Dia Center for the Arts says bye-bye Chelsea and hello Meatpackers. Dia will anchor the High Line with a $33 mill project by ... um, Roger Duffy (of SOM). | nytimes View full entry
Bansky hits the controversial West Bank barrier with 9 idyllic interpretations of the "other side." | BBC | prev View full entry
Who Loves Creepy Megachurches? Stadium crowds, thousands of rabid devotees, all chugging Jesus like Kool-Aid. Should you be afraid? Mark Morford for SF Chron delves into the new phenomenon of McMegaChurches. View full entry
A team of South Korean researchers reports it has cloned what scientists deem the most difficult animal of all - the dog. NYT View full entry
Don't be put off by the title of this story which reeks of cliché. Roberta Smith reviews two gallery shows for street artists. Urban Outsider Artists Evoke Society's Margins NYT View full entry
While the Pompidou Centre in Paris undergoes a major overhaul, parts of its vast collection have been re-hung thematically on one floor, resulting in some spectacular moments and telling juxtapositions. The Daily Telegraph View full entry