Can you die from lack of sleep? I often feel I can. An interactive map of vanishing employment across the US. Pretty cool article: How shoppers make decisions in a recession.
Entries from May 2009
Green Aria, Frank Lloyd Lego, and creative people.
May 27, 2009 · Leave a Comment
This is awesome! Someone told me about it this morning and all the tickets are already sold out!! The ScentOpera introduces a new art form based only on smell and sound. I wanna get this soooo bad! The Frank Lloyd Wright Lego architecture collection. The 100 most creative people according to Fast Company mag.
Categories: Architecture and Design · Culture and Events · Music · Technology and Software
Tagged: 100 list, architecture, creative people, Fast Company, Frank Lloyd Wright, green, Lego, Music, Opera, performance, perfume, scent
Awesome islands, online genders, and fun money.
May 26, 2009 · Leave a Comment
I wanna go these places SOOOOO bad!!! Interesting article; Are men from Facebook, and women from Twitter? Matching real people’s faces with the heads on different bills. Very original!
Categories: Culture and Events · Photography · Technology and Software · Travel
Tagged: culture, Facebook, faces, genders, Mars, money, online, Photography, private islands, Travel, traveling, tropical, Twitter, venus
Wine, wine, and more wine.
May 21, 2009 · Leave a Comment
10 top international wine destinations, 10 architectural wonders of the wine world, and top 10 wine myths.
Categories: Architecture and Design · Food and Wine · Photography · Travel
Tagged: architecture, destinations, myths, wine
Portraits, Calatrava, and trains.
May 19, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Very interesting photo project in Berlin. Calatrava’s New York World Trade Center Hub. Are trains in the US slower now than they were in the 1920s?
Categories: Architecture and Design · Culture and Events · News and Politics · Photography · Technology and Software · Travel
Tagged: 1920, Amtrak, Berlin, Calatrava, hub, New York, Photography, project, trains, transportation, USA, World Trade Center
Abandoned factory, KFC in China, and Illuminati.
May 18, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Pictures of an abandoned clothing factory. Why KFC and other American companies are finally thriving in China. And why can’t the Catholic Church shake free of a 200-year-old conspiracy theory?
Categories: Architecture and Design · Culture and Events · Food and Wine · Photography
Tagged: abandoned, architecture, catholic church, China, conspiracy theory, GM, Illuminati, KFC, multinationals, photo essay, Photography, Slate, USA
Virtual Rio, golden coffins, and refrigerators.
May 15, 2009 · Leave a Comment
An amazing aerial view of Rio de Janeiro that you can tilt. Golden coffins and everything else. The insane perks of some CEO’s. A cool photo essay about people’s refrigerators.
Categories: Cartography, Typography and Illustration · Food and Wine · News and Politics · Photography · Travel
Tagged: aerial view, Brasil, Brazil, CEO, Chairmans, culture, eating, financial, food, General Electric, golden coffins, habits, Jack Welch., perks, photo essay, Photography, Rio de Janeiro, social
The Blind Wine Taster.
May 14, 2009 · 1 Comment
This article is so incredibly awesome that I’ll post only this link today; Alexandra Elman lost her sight due to diabetes in 1995, but has kept up her career as a wine consultant nonetheless. For the past 14 years she has continued to taste wines and consult on wine lists for restaurants, hotels, and retailers around the world.
Categories: Culture and Events · Food and Wine
Tagged: blind, New York City, New York Times, wine, wine tasting
Hitler, deadly sins, and coins.
May 13, 2009 · Leave a Comment
A German man knocked the head off a waxwork figure of Adolf Hitler in a Berlin museum. This is awesome! The map of the seven deadly sins in the United States. Why we spend coins faster than bills.
Categories: Cartography, Typography and Illustration · Culture and Events · News and Politics
Tagged: Berlin, coins, deadly sins, economy, Hitler, maps, museum, recession, research, USA
Free movies, accents, and Eugenics.
May 12, 2009 · Leave a Comment
The best websites to watch movies for free. This girl can speak with 21 accents. Very cool!
If you have nothing else to do, read about Eugenics.
Categories: Culture and Events · Movies, Literature and Quotes
Tagged: accents, Eugenics, movies, online content, sharing, Wikipedia, you tube



