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Happy Halloween

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EDITT Tower (“Ecological Design In The Tropics”) will be built in Singapore with the financial support of their National University and should be the most eco-friendly in the country. The most interesting thing is that this 26-storey building will use photovotaic panels and will be wrapped in organic local vegetation that will act as a living wall insulator. More to it, the skyscraper was designed to collect rain-water, both for plant irrigation and for its “needs”.

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Economy update

random wednesday

Blobby bulbs and Cutie cute.

Summer was here yesterday! Yippy!

nest house

birds don't pay rent.

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miniature worlds

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Recommended by Jason Wells.

Goldfish funeral

River Deep Mountain High

Comparative Heights of the Principal Mountains and Lengths of the Principal Rivers of The World

a real nice way of presenting a lot of data - link here - or super big file here

and an article with many other awesome examples here

Hair hats

Welcome AK!!!!

Body bits.

Thomas vs 50 Cent. Click on the link to see the youtube vid.

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=kUQTVdqgJOc

massey ‘one day sculpture’ event on our doorstep

today at 1pm

A series of bells will be temporarily installed through central Wellington in a circuit curving from the waterfront though the central city and back to the sea. The line which the bells collectively delineate will correspond to the part of the central city most under threat from future flooding. By mapping the space of the city with sound, the project will consider the relationship of the built environment to Wellington’s natural topography.  

link for map  link for more info

one day sculpture - Led by the Litmus Research Initiative at Massey University Wellington

Taking duration and place as its starting point, ONE DAY SCULPTURE stretches the format of the scattered-site exhibition over time and space. Instead of presenting a cluster of artworks within the framework of a single exhibition, ONE DAY SCULPTURE offers the opportunity to engage with each newly commissioned work for one day only, one after the other, as a cumulative series across New Zealand over one year.

1920s driver navigation system

It doesn't speak to you or give live traffic updates, but this is the world's first sat nav - invented in the 1920s.

The Plus Fours Routefinder was designed to be worn on the wrist - relying on good old-fashioned paper maps wound around wooden rollers, which the driver turned en route.

The tiny scrolls also showed the mileage and gave a "stop" instruction at the journey's end.

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Awesome Monday.

Gordon

Getting your Jewish grandparents to vote Obama.

click on the ? to see the youtube vid.