I think we missed posting this last weekend...but it is priceless: Tom Wolfe gets ample page real estate in the New York Times Opinion section to chastise the NYC Preservation Commission and beat down developers. Why does the Commission have no power? And then again, should it? Read The (Naked)... View full entry
This months Architecture for Humanity newsletter includes information on the $125,000 matching challenge grant for the Open Architecture Network (donate and get a 'dog'), the Change Me logo design competition, a request for a green designer for an orphanage in Tanzania and upcoming events and... View full entry
On Talk Of Then Nation today Jennifer Senior and other insightful callers discuss "Burnout" (most specifically of the office variety). Don't know what I'm talking about? Consider yourself lucky! npr View full entry
This Friday the Guggenheim Museum NYC presents the third and final installment of Art After Dark for the season, featuring music selections by Telefon Tel Aviv and Dethlab. Festivities start at 9 PM and capacity is limited, so early arrival is suggested. See Flavorpill for all the details. View full entry
A Supreme Court argument Wednesday on the Bush administration’s refusal to regulate carbon dioxide in automobile emissions offered three intertwined plot lines to the audience that had come to watch the court’s first encounter with the issue of global climate change. NYT View full entry
Cartoonist Chris Ware designs four covers for the November 27th edition of the New Yorker by adding his own touch of postmodern to the season of gluttony: Stuffing, Family, Conversation and Main Course. |New Yorker| View full entry
Sub-division bans wreaths with peace signs... ome say it is an a symbol of Satan. Read View full entry
Nine years in gestation, Thomas Pynchon's novel Against the Day has arrived. | nyt review View full entry
Sometimes I ask to myself where publicity can go to? and I find answers like this: Charming is sponsoring a public toilet facility right on Times Square, as a promotional and service space. Charmin Restrooms | via View full entry
What is a micronation? Who decides? Is it all some complex joke? Lonely Planet dives head-first into the argument with their new Lonely Planet Guide to Micronations. Then NPR jumps in, interviewing one of the book's authors live on national radio - before the whole team sits down for a roundtable... View full entry
Did you hear the one about British street artist Banksy decorating a Disneyland ride with a Guantanamo Detainee? It is, in fact, a small world after all. Check out the How-To video recently posted to Banksy's website. View full entry
From 1944 to 1986, 3.9 million tons of uranium ore were dug and blasted from Navajo soil, nearly all of it for America's atomic arsenal. Navajos inhaled radioactive dust, drank contaminated water and built homes using rock from the mines and mills. Many of the dangers persist to this day... View full entry
As Oogleearth reports it wont be long until you'll be able to "push a 'buy' button in SketchUp and have your inventory of virtual home furniture materialize on your doorstep" View full entry
A Thousand Tiny Sexes is an art-book-research-action project to collect and publish 1000 proposals for TINY SEXES which are not Male or Female -- imaginary ones, as-yet-unrealized ones, or real ones -- in the hopes that these contribute to a collective reimagining of sex as a legal, biological... View full entry
ACTAR Press and AUDC are having a party 6:30pm Monday, Nov 20th at the GSAPP (Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall)...Desert America takes on the discussion of the American desert as a space of extreme uses and activities. The desert is a huge paradox: beneath the immensity and silence of its outward... View full entry