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Category Archives: serious stuff
Paper money is obsolete
Monday, January 14, 2008
Mysterious $100 ‘supernote’ counterfeit bills appear across world The only way to distinguish some of the “supernotes,” experts say, is to compare photographically blown-up sections with magnifying instruments, […] About $50 million of the mystery money has been seized since 1989.
Gee, this sounds familiar somehow
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
‘Belgium? Something that does not exist’ Political fault lines divide nation | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited […] There is not a single national politician or leader (bar King Albert) or a single national political party that straddles the linguistic and cultural north-south divide between Flanders and the southern region of francophone Wallonia. “I don’t […]
After Katrina, pointing fingers
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
The Loved Ones – Esquire “Mr. Cobb, how are you doing?” I asked James Cobb, a lawyer in New Orleans, Louisiana. “It depends on what you mean,” Mr. Cobb answered. “If you mean how am I doing after losing my house and every fucking thing in it, and after being forced to live in a […]
Kowloon Walled City
Monday, August 20, 2007
area – 0.026 km² population prior to demolition – 50,000, approx population density – 1,900,000 / km² (it’s interesting to note that the city of london has a population density of 4,669 / km² and that hong kong itself a density of 6,206 / km2)
Boy in the Bubble – the real story
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Bursting the Bubble – Houston Press In 1978, although he was not quite eight years old, David had realized his life would be lonely, dull and short. His helplessness enraged him. Before he was born, his body had been donated to science.
Where plastic goes to die
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Our oceans are turning into plastic…are we? He had the time and the curiosity to try a new route, one that would lead the vessel through the eastern corner of a 10-million-square-mile oval known as the North Pacific subtropical gyre. […] It began with a line of plastic bags ghosting the surface, followed by an […]
Engineering as it should be done
Saturday, April 21, 2007
THE FIFTY-NINE-STORY CRISIS What’s an engineer’s worst nightmare? To realize that the supports he designed for a skyscraper like Citicorp Center are flawed–and hurricane season is approaching. So he fixed it.
