Mastadon, Curl the Burl. Mostly, because i love the phrase Curl the Burl, thought the video is kind of amazing.

two sets of problems given to Moscow university students, about math. One for Jews and one for gentiles. The problems were easy, but how they were constructed in the jewish councils made the soultions nigh on impossible.

excellent article on Der Speigel about the problems of corruption in Vienna.

the national trust for historical perservation in the states makes a smart, and quite important arguement for the persevation of the modernist masterpeice phyllis wheately school in NoLA.

From November 9, 2011

From November 9, 2011

From November 9, 2011

Takuro Kuwata, Striped Cups, 2011, Cermaic. more of his work hereincluding some great crackling.

cops force sex workers to perform sexual ats, in Vancouver. Glad that the commission on missing women is happening, really realyl not suprised.

eric mcsaveney is a young vancouver painter, the seires inland, of smokey/foggy landscapes in vancouver--all green hills and grey outbuildings, takes the romantic long view about what is seen in contempaary architechture. Not sure if they are obvious or quite moving.


The FBI changed it's deft of Rape To: "“penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim.” which widens the previous deftion, from 1921, (the prev. deft excluded anything but stranger vaginal rape)

fantastic review of attack the block.

plainly dressed for all yr amish clothing needs.

a history of the log flume (ie the industrial site to get logs down river, not the amusement park ride that was inspired by it)

From November 9, 2011

From the Dublin Tweed Ride.