Legal tussle.

Was Mario a commie conspiracy to corrupt our minds? Or perhaps he is corrupting the youth to take drugs.

In Salem Mass, hidden between Witch museums, and Wicked bars, you’ll find the Peabody Essex Museum home of the Yin Yu Tang house. Reassembled after being transported all the way from China, it originally stood for almost two centuries in a small town of the Souther Anhui province called Huang Cun. This site is all flash, and is really beautifully done. I especially like the flythrough, though being flash, I can’t link directly to it. Enjoy!

Bogota, capital of Colombia I imagine is a lot like New York’s five points, back in the day. Gangs of children, dangerous traffic, gangs and corruption. A new Mayor has a plan to change all that, using of all things mimes on street corners. That’s right, circus guys who don’t talk…

Check out this site which among other photo greatness, includes a gallery of a cool brick-block snap together building. The building is basically a steel core, to which snap on rooms are attached!

Hi there sweetest heart of angels… How is the visit of your brother
from across the seas or South of the thirteen states? That he bodes well
is in my hopes too…

Out here in California for a week, I’ve been to a bazillion cafes. Most of them have wireless internet. I was down in Santa Cruz, and a friend’s network had the password 13131313131313131313131313. I don’t know if that’s 13 times the bad luck or what. Here in San Francisco I made my way to Golden Gate Perk where the password was 0a f6 01 6f 82 96 56 75 02 94 d4 e8 4e. Now that is SERIOUS security. They change the password every few ticks of the atomic clock! Don’t try breaking into that wifi network. Anyway, if you’re looking for wifi in SF, check out Cheese Bikini.

I was first exposed… from her weblog Reverse Cowgirl. I then picked up a copy of her You’re a Bad Man, Aren’t You?. Though she is Invisible now, she’s writing again, blogging a book called Porn Happy. Her writing covers the surreal end of human relations, and you will surely find it challenging, and Catherine M shocking, but stimulating, and endlessly yet strangely seductive.

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Gorgeous art of Aya Kato. Noir? Goth? Japanese? Maybe a bit Beardsley, her art is a bit of all of these elements.

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Some have theorized that right-handedness evolved with the development of language, which is centered in the left hemisphere of the brain. Now it seems that left-handedness may have been around for five million years, and obviously remains to this day. This speaks to the conspiracy that instruments, such as guitar, are made with the complex and intricate movements on the left, because musical instruments were historically invented by lefties!

This show featuring works of NYU’s Interactive Technology Program is upon us once again. If you haven’t been able to go before, be sure to this time.

ITP Winter Show
Sunday 12.19 2-6pm
Monday 12.20 5-9pm

THanks Shawn.

Back in the day busty supermodels fell for guys who lived in trailer homes. It’s true, I have proof!

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This is a great site featuring a gallery of changed places in NYC, mostly architectural changes. Beautiful shots, like this one of Pike + Henry streets, looking out the the Manhattan bridge, and East River.

[Geisha Asobi]

Lives of 1000 are around the corner. The medical breakthroughs may be nearer than you think, or so believes Dr. Aubrey de Grey.

[Thanks Duncan]

Surreal art of the body, Alex Grey’s work evokes the infinite universe, through his hullucinogenic images.