{ Thursday, March 1, 2007 }
Miscellany
- Sand Art Can get mesmerized with this one.
- Medieval Guilds Like a secret society and a lobbying group rolled into one. Going to investigate these some more.
- Reversible Destiny Lofts in a suburb of Tokyo. Inside, each apartment features a dining room with a grainy, surfaced floor that slopes erratically, a sunken kitchen and a study with a concave floor. Electric switches are located in unexpected places on the walls so you have to feel around for the right one. A glass door to the veranda is so small you have to bend to crawl out. You constantly lose balance and gather yourself up, grab onto a column and occasionally trip and fall. Even worse, there's no closet space; residents will have to find a way to live there, since the apartment offers only a few solutions. "You'll learn to figure it out," says Arakawa. Ten minutes of stumbling around is enough to send even the healthiest young person over the edge. Arakawa says that's precisely the point. "[The apartment] makes you alert and awakens instincts, so you'll live better, longer and even forever," says the artist. More here. (via Design Your Life).
- College-educated, highly successful women marry more. "So the doomsayers are wrong. Educated men and women are more likely to marry and less likely to divorce than others . And guess what? They have better sex lives, too." Thanks Mom and Dad, for making me do all those arduous applications.
- Recent Earthquake Map for San Francisco. Either a truck backed into my house, the neighbors are having a really wild party, or that was an earthquake. ... Confirmed! Wow, that was across the Bay in Lafayette. 4.2. Felt really strong up here. Again, I love the internet!
LINK | 7:49 PM | TB
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Where is Karolina comong from--Nazi Germany?This kind of thinking was popular around the time of my birth which was 1938.Handy way of getting rid of people one does not like.
tuula kahilahti | March 8, 2007 8:39 AM