Madonna's NYC Apartment Dreams Dashed

The Map Room: A highlight of Vancouver’s Pacific National Exhibition grounds was George Challenger’s massive — at 26×24 metres — exaggerated-relief map of British Columbia , which was on display at the B.C. Pavillion until that building was torn down in 1997. Saved from destruction, ...more

Host a Neo-Slacker Thanksgiving

Lifehacker: Hosting a Thanksgiving meal at your place sounds like a great idea—until you're up into the wee morning hours of Turkey Day. But opening up your home to friends and family doesn't have to a solitary burden. Chow.com is building a guide to a "Neoslacker Interactive Thanksgiving," offering links ...more

Amy Winehouse: a bit of a mixed day

no rock and roll fun: Some good news for Amy Winehouse: she's been granted a visa for entry into the US . So that'll help her building her career in the US. Although, maybe not. As this evening, the Daily Mail is reporting that police have raided her and Blake's Camden home: Police were refusing to comment on the ...more

Look at My Muscles

Light Within: Building muscles is one of the hardest tasks to accomplish. Doing same exercises in crowded gyms day in and day out becomes monotonous and most people leave it half way due to sheer boredom. There is no short cut to physical exercise but the best thing is that advances in technologies have made it ...more

Madonna's NYC Apartment Dreams Dashed

Starpulse News Blog: Madonna's dreams of expanding her New York apartment home have been dashed by co-op bosses because they refuse to let her buy a fourth property in the building. Read more!

v-day: 1811 eastlake in the times again

Treehugger: Image credit Julie Keefe for The New York Times That is the great headline in the New York Times that says it all, the contradictions and problems of building small, green and modern. Paul McKean and Amy Donahue, both architects in Oregon, ran into them all with their modern, green roofed 925 SF ...more

Daycare Center to Be Expelled

Gothamist: The city is showing the door to a daycare facility that has called P.S. 122 its home for 26 years. The Children's Liberation Daycare Center , which serves 88 kids between the ages of 2 and 6, is going to court later this month to object to its ejection from the building, with no plan for the daycare ...more

The American University in Cairo v. Israel

Daniel Pipes Weblog: The American University in Cairo, founded in 1919, has gone through its share of vicissitudes as an American institution in Egypt. Based throughout its existence in a cramped campus in the heart of modern Cairo, at Tahrir Square, the university is currently building a much larger home in a desert ...more

Fab@Home

CR4: Hello CR4'ers, I'm interested in building one of the FAB@Home prototype machines and was wondering if anyone in the CR had built one or had any experience with them. From what I've seen in videos it appears to have decent resolution and the flexibility with materials is a distinct advantage o

v-day: 1811 eastlake in the times again

Metroblogging Seattle: map via local.live.com The New York Times again returns to 1811 Eastlake. This time, they profile a pair of residents who went from the ferry terminal to studio apartments in Seattle's home for irrecoverable alcoholics: The handsome building...more