London's Idea Stores (some designed by D. Adjaye) are located close to supermarkets in the hope to attract some of the daily shoppers. In Germany, Wal-Mart is becoming a public meeting place by organising Friday evenings for singles. View full entry
G2 the Guardian's daily magazine has a huge special report on China check it out. My favourite article: With 6,000 buildings classed as skyscrapers in the city, 1,500 require professional cleaning... View full entry
In a Tom Dispatch exclusive, Dead Cities author Mike Davis does a little skit on apocalypse denial. Read View full entry
What's going on in the world of today's marketers and advertisers? What are the new and surprising methods they're using to decipher who we are and what we want? (Frontline) View full entry
Oxford biologist Richard Dawkins is interviewed by Brian Lehrer. View full entry
Very handy web based app that manages your movie viewing habits. Plus it intergrates with netflix. Cin-o-matic is nice. View full entry
A church contructed with lego, in dedication of a cat. Gotta love the internet. Look View full entry
The SFGate on the 54th annual International Design Conference in Aspen, Colo., organized by Benjamin Bratton and Christian Moeller. Read View full entry
Eluding Artistic Pigeonholes : interesting new work by artist Richard Tuttle, now at the Drawing Center. View full entry
Despite months of protests, Wal-Mart-owned store opens near Mexico's pyramids. read | previously | related View full entry
Composer Liza Lim wrote her award-winning piece Ecstatic Architecture for the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. The piece – yet to be performed in Australia – won Lim the $25,000 Paul Lowin Orchestral Prize at a... View full entry
What might the potential impact of a 110 mile per gallon efficient motorcycle be? Think again... it's for the US Marines. Report Here View full entry
Looking to vent? Transfer recommends: back away from the polls and raise the hate on bad architecture ... with so much of it, ya cant lose! View full entry
New issue of Dirt is live online - the printed compendium featuring all contents of the online issues is due out early 2005, so keep an eye out for it. via View full entry
Does Peter Plagens of Newsweek think he just came up with this "Chairman Mau" joke (Or maybe it was his editor)? ... Here is a list of related articles via Massive Change (or search the news for bruce mau). View full entry