A Scale Comparison of the US and Europe
08/07/2008
And some other interesting maps on Radical Cartography. Read More
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Nuclear Power Plants Turn To Craigslist For Recruiting Efforts
07/07/2008
Westinghouse Electric Company is building dozens and dozens of nuclear power plants all over the world and they need you, Craigslist prowler, to work for them. Westinghouse Electric Company also posted this missed connection: Cute Brunette Outside Reactor Room 4—you looked so cute even though you were vomiting blood and your hair was coming out in clumps. Wish I'd h ... Read More
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Your Building Moves Me, Mr. Architect
06/26/2008
Wow, we can't think of a better way to start off everyday covered in sick from the mouth down. Make it stop! Make it stop! [yt]http://www.youtube.com/v/Bq-QUkE1DGM[/yt] Read More
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Three is a Crowd?
04/10/2008
Sometimes when we ride SEPTA to work in the mornings, the train shows up and it's really crowded so we just wait for the next train to come five minutes later. Too bad we don't have some white-gloved dandies to cram us on board so we can get to work five minutes earlier. "No really, I think we can fit a few more people on this thing." Japanese Train Push - Watch m ... Read More
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Welcome to *unt, a'hem, Lunt Village
04/09/2008
The quaint English hamlet of Lunt in Merseyside is faced with an unfortunate dilemma: they can continually repaint defaced village signs or change the spelling of their town to Launt. A name change would foil vandals who get their kicks changing the "L" in Lunt to a "C." The The Telegraph reported that village ole-timers like David Roughley, whose family has farmed i ... Read More
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Oh Danny Boyz In The Hood
03/17/2008
South Central L.A., March 17, 2008—It's the one day of the year when L.A.'s Crips gang members ditch their telltale blue apparel in favor of kelly green in honor of their Irish heritage. Read More
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White House Redux
01/29/2008
Storefront for Art and Architecture, an NYC-based nonprofit geared towards promoting innovative ideas in (yup, you guessed it) architecture, art and design, is currently taking "idea" entries for White House Redux, a contest it is holding for a brand new White House design. What should the most powerful house in the world look like these days? We're thinking Graceland ... Read More
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Bombay Subway Commute More Fun Than Smallpox
01/07/2008
No really. We always think it's annoying when SEPTA is a little late. This sh!t is c-r-a-z-y. We don't even want to see what third class looks like. Read More
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From the Department of F'd Up
11/28/2007
According to our good friends at the New York Times, the N.Y.P.D. has been placing dummy lost items around town and then busting people who pick them up and walk past a uniformed police officer without turning in the found item. Read all about it in Jim Dwyer's article "Dragnet That Ensnares Good Samaritans, Too". Wow, that's kinda totally f'd up. Read More
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A Different Kind of Pot Head: The New Johnny Appleseed
10/25/2007
Everyone likes to think of themselves as an instrument of social change these days. Everybody got some great idea for changing the world around them when they aren’t in the club gettin’ tipsy. Perhaps your philanthropy might take the form of a recently purchased, vertically-integrated-manufacturing-ed Rib Boy Beater Tank from sweatshop renouncer Am App , or, you m ... Read More
