It all starts one quiet afternoon at the brew-pub. I’m sitting with my associate Bobby, enjoying a pint of the house ale, when Stephen Covey (author of “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”) suddenly appears on the bar television. I can’t quite describe the level of annoyance that the bald…

As the previous post suggested, a number of great projects came out of this year's Urban Islands . [Image: The front and back of an architectural trading card, designed by Mitchell Bonus for Urban Islands 2009]. I've mentioned it before, of course, but Urban Islands is a biannual architecture studio…

In the aftermath of a US soldier's abduction by Afghan Taliban forces , the US military is disbursing leaflets in two towns near particularly dangerous areas, which threaten villagers with the prospect of being "targeted" or "hunted" if they do not return the soldier safe and sound, CBS News…

Story Tools Font size: * * * * Photo visibility: Canada's 'aggressive' war in Afghanistan is all about 'teaching lessons with weapons' and will leave nothing behind 'except the blood we'velost there,' the journalist son of late prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau said Thursday. MONTREAL - Canada's…

09.29. 2003 When John Titor first showed up on IRC chat in October of 2000, he was enjoying a neat kind of double billing - as his 38-year-old self sat downstairs in the kitchen, typing away, a two-year-old version of himself lay sound asleep upstairs in bed. The elder Titor had been sent back in…

No Kubrick Movie Is Just A Movie: 10 Years After Eyes Wide Shut Posted by: Tony – Mar 07, 2014 Legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick passed away on this date 15 years ago. In honor of that, we present an article published in 2009 and written by filmmaker Todd Raviotta about Stanley Kubrick. It is one…

Joseph Stiglitz April 17 (Bloomberg) — The Obama administration’s bank-rescue efforts will probably fail because the programs have been designed to help Wall Street rather than create a viable financial system, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said. “All the ingredients they have so far…

I spent last week in Zimbabwe, a nation that has lost so much ground from a humanitarian perspective and yet still has so much potential. I saw real signs of hope during my visit. There were media reports of various delegations visiting to assess the country's progress. Previously opposed political…

The Cougar Ace lists at a precarious angle in Wide Bay, Alaska. Photo: Courtesy of US Coast Guard Latitude 48° 14 North. Longitude 174° 26 West. Almost midnight on the North Pacific, about 230 miles south of Alaska's Aleutian Islands. A heavy fog blankets the sea. There's nothing but the wind…

Readers of The Shock Doctrine know that one of the most shameless examples of disaster capitalism has been the attempt to exploit the disastrous flooding of New Orleans to close down that city's public housing projects, some of the only affordable units in the city. Most of the buildings sustained…

In the smoking rubble of market fundamentalism, we are all being forced to rethink the principles that order our societies - and one small, shining idea is rising from the wreckage. It is the idea of human equality. The need for us to return to this, our best and most basic instinct, is spelled out…

The wide, beneficent face of Sheikh Mohammed - the absolute ruler of Dubai - smiles down on his creation. His image is displayed on every other building, sandwiched between the more familiar corporate rictuses of Ronald McDonald and Colonel Saunders. He dominates the Manhattan-manqué skyline,…

Figaro's Books “Clever, passionate, and erudite.” Publishers Weekly Hear the NPR commentary . “It is, dare we say, fiendishly clever.” - Chicago Tribune Order it on Amazon . Book Discussion Guide Collectible Figures Rhetorical togs, mugs, hats, and other figurative junk! Excerpts From Figaro's Book…

One of the most common refrains about the US tax code is it's too complicated -- and that compliance costs far too much for the average business. Compliance costs (the cost of paying people to plan tax-advantaged strategies) are very high. But there are reasons for that complication.

Le Grand Content Le Grand Content examines the omnipresent Powerpoint-culture in search for its philosophical potential. Intersections and diagrams are assembled to form a grand 'association-chain-massacre'. which challenges itself to answer all questions of the universe and some more. Of course, it…

La plus belle scène du monde Bienvenue au Cosmo Jazz Depuis quelques années, se déroule chaque été à Chamonix un festival qui se joue « sur la plus belle scène du monde ». Et si l’on peut soupçonner André Manoukian, grand ordonnateur […] — SORTIR — Exploded View + Pointe du lac Point Ephémère Paris…

A quick thanks to Nathan Yau for the plug over at Flowing Data ... I tried to add a comment there with some blogs I subscribe to (some already mentioned, some not) but I suspect the spam filter thought I was nuts to try posting 20 links. So here are a few other blogs/feeds you might like, if you…

How to nap (Text by Jennifer Ackerman, graphic by Javier Zarracina) Source: Boston.com