Egyptian graffiti artist “Sad Panda’s” latest work.
“Yusqut al-‘Alam Kulluh”: “Down with the whole world.”
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Read moreLetter from Richard Nixon to Ronald Reagan, 08/13/1987
Former president Nixon comments on Reagan’s speech on the Iran-Contra affair, delivered to a national television audience the night before.
Read moreWhat those of us with more freedom of movement may ignore all our lives: that the world is populated not only by biological, political, and geographic features, but by imagination and speculation, and that it is impossible to know any place entirely, but that there are ways of approximating our knowledge of a place that moves beyond the facts of typography, longitude, latitude, or demographics.
Judith Schalansky, cited in Judith Schalansky’s Atlas of Remote Islands
Read moreChinese man builds mountain on top of apartment
Daily Mail: A Chinese man has spent six years building his dream mountaintop villa – on top of a Beijing apartment block.
Eccentric Professor Zhang Lin shifted tons of rubble and rock onto the roof of the building to construct the outrageous home which looks like it has been carved from a mountainside.
Mr Lin could now be ordered to tear down his mountain penthouse if it is deemed unsafe.
‘It has come to our attention that Professor Zhang did not apply for permission for this structure. So unless he can prove it is safe, it will have to come down,’ explained an city official.
Photo: Mountaintop home in Beijing (EPA)
Read more“Fans will think they’re playing a video game or watching a Sci-Fi movie, but they’ll actually be viewing real NFL football as never presented before.”
Read: Replay Technologies Will Make Sports Replays Look Like Scenes From “The Matrix” – Fast Company
The Committee to Nuke Elysium 