Incredible slideshow of a War of the Worlds photoshoot for a book cover. By Larry Knox, and available here. Sounds dry, I know, but SQUID! SQUID! SQUID!
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Obituary: Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs
NEW YORK (AP) – Jane Jacobs, an author and
community activist of singular influence whose classic “The Death and Life of Great American Cities'' transformed ideas about urban planning, died Tuesday, her publisher said. She was 89.
Jacobs died at a Toronto hospital, which she entered a few days ago, according to Random House publicist Sally Marvin. The author, who would have turned 90 on May 4, had been in poor health.
A native of Scranton, Pa., Jacobs lived for many years in New York before moving to Toronto in the late 1960s. She and her husband, architect Robert Jacobs Jr., were unhappy that their taxes supported the Vietnam War and moved to Canada. Robert Jacobs died in 1996.
Jacobs, who based her findings on deep, eclectic reading and firsthand observation, challenged assumptions she believed damaged modern cities – that neighborhoods should be isolated from each other, that an empty street was safer than a crowded one, that the car represented progress over the pedestrian.
Her priorities were for integrated, manageable communities, for diversity of people, transportation, architecture and commerce. She also believed that economies need to be self-sustaining and self-renewing, relying on local initiative instead of centralized bureaucracies.
Jacobs received a number of prizes, including a lifetime achievement award in 2000 from the National Building Foundation in Washington, D.C.
Stonefridge; Monument for the Ages
From Sploid. You know it's a slow news day when you've checked Fark, Guido Fawkes, the Guardian, the Globe and Mail, the Province, BoingBoing, News of the Weird and the ever-reliable Weekly World News and you only find one story worth posting.
Most people who visit England's historic Stonehenge monument come away disappointed.
In photographs, the ancient whatever-it-is looks impressive with the sun shining through its stone gates and the majestic silence and all that.
But in reality, the sun never shines at all because that's how England is, and there's a huge freeway right next to the monument so all you hear is traffic, and the whole place is overrun with dirty hippies wearing hooded druid robes.
Luckily, there's a much better option.
This is recycling at its most creative. Truly, the artist should be very, very proud, if for no other reason than it keeps those loopy neo-Druids out of my way. Adam Horowitz is reported to be the artist. Hmmm, isn't he in Beastie Boys? O! How the mighty have fallen!
Linkie o’ the Day: Beautiful Agony
It’s amazing what you find clicking on “most recently updated” on WordPress. It tends to be more interesting than the “Most popular” which, this week, is Scoble-iffic as always, with strong showings by Dead Raj Kumar and MIT marathoners. BFD! as we say on the W3! By clicking on “Most Recently Updated” blogs, I’ve turned a computer animator on to Canuck Immortal Windsor McKay, found something that will get the nasty red mildew out of my bathroom (is it related to red tide? Apparently yes!) and now, have come (or is that “cum”?) across Beautiful Agony, the least nekkid, most interesting sex site I’ve ever seen.
Beautiful Agony is dedicated to the beauty of
human orgasm. This may be the most erotic thing you have ever seen, yet the only nudity it contains is from the neck up. That’s where people are truly naked.
The videos were made in private by the contributor (and sometimes their partner). We don’t know what they’re doing, or how they are doing it, we just know it’s real and it’s sexy as hell. Make your ears blush by putting on your headphones and turning the sound to eleven.
Yes, there are free samples. Look for the ones with the red borders and the text underneath that says ‘free sample’.
New agony comes five times per week (at least).
Note to micromanagers everywhere: this must be your spiritual home, because at this very moment, up at the top of the page, it quite clearly says, in large grey-on-white-eurostile lettering, NEXT VIDEO DUE 2 HOURS – 54 MINUTES. I mean, are these people on some kind of a production schedule? Excusing themselves from the dinner table because they’re due “on camera?” The mind boggles. The gonads boggle also, quite an interesting sensation. And since the site isn’t dedicated to filming sex as such, just filming the successful climax (sorry) to Gasmquest, and since we all have our good nights and our off nights, it must be asked:
How do they KNOW??????
Hey, is that Clay Aiken
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