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Category Archives: Urban Living & Lifestyles

Update on Whelan murder

A man has been arrested in connection with the horrible murder on the number 43 bus (see this post) according to the BBC.

What is really takes to earn $100k plus as a service professional

What does it REALLY take to make 6-Figures as a service professional? by Catherine Franz
Over the past 30 years, I’ve read so much on how to make money that I know I can write a series of books on the topic, books that would cut through the junk and you don’t have to buy 101 [...]

Who gives a hoot?

One of the new T-shirts from kingkongshrimp.com

The Dolphin boat

First we had the Airscooter – a helicopter for every home. Now we have the Dolphin boat – an essential addition to every man’s water kit. Check out the photos below…
 
 
[Via BookofJoe , with thanks]

Brutally Honest Personals

From Esquire Magazine: The singles…are real people with real issues. Some are overweight. Others are crippled by debt. Quite a few live with their parents. But they all have one thing in common: They are available. And they’ve put themselves out there with the hope of finding someone willing to accept them at face value. [...]

Ruin-lovers anonymous

This Russian site, Abandoned, “is a photo base of abandoned plants, unfinished buildings, industrial sites. Most of them situated near to Moscow.”
http://www.abandoned.ru
For the ruin-lovers amongst us.

Autonomics weblog launched

Jason Bates is one of the smartest people I know and now he has a blog!
Get over to the Autonomics Weblog for an intellectual feast!
[This is a placeholder notification. Autonomics and Jason deserve a detailed post but I am unable to write it now.]

Happy Slapping back in the news

Smart Mobs cover the topic: Part 1 and 2. Now there is footage too. It is horrible to watch.
For the record, I was on this whole topic two months ago in “The pain of others: Abu Graib, Bumfights, Jackass, Happy Slapping…a new media sadism?”.

Unrealised Moscow

First we had The New York that night have been. Now we have “Unrealised Moscow“:
Moscow architecture from the 1930s to the early 1950s undoubtedly occupies a central place in domestic construction of the socialist epoch. Its specific nature and scope is the most outstanding illustration of the socialist Utopia in architecture. This period saw [...]

Linkdump from February

Web of Letters: Type the letter in and have the site parse the text to images ransom note style. A bit hit and miss..
The New York That Might Have Been: Images of New York from films and fantasy mock up such as Zeplins docking on the Empire State Building or artists impressions of Gaudi’s American [...]