Architecture: Boxes? No! Blobs? No! Boring? Never!

lots of props for NY-based Asymptote architecture in this article from Lisa Rochon:  " There was a point when the drawings and renderings by Asymptote, a New York firm led by two Canadians, Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture, were enough. When building their designs...

Vampire Movie 'Perfect Creature' Came To Glenn Standring In A Daydream

"The idea for vampire movie Perfect Creature came to Glenn Standring in a daydream. Or a daymare, if there is such a thing. He imagined there was a good vampire chasing a bad vampire in an alternate world where humans happily share their blood with these superior beings."

The Labyrinth Unbound: Weblogs as Literature

"The novel is, as Doody (1996) reminds us after Henry James, “‘a loose baggy monster.’ And it is so chiefly because it does not acknowledge the distinction between… Form and Matter” (p.304). The weblog likewise collapses form and matter such that they...

Satellite Radio Shock Jocks Apologize

This article raised my regulatory antennae: for now, satellite radio is unregluated by the FCC, and there is no doubt a huge desire by the two major companies (XM and Sirius, in the midst of merger plans) to keep it that way. It is in both companies' interests to stay beneath...

Crazy, Sexy, Strange: The Top 10 Wildest Places You've Had Sex

"When we asked you to tell us the strangest place you've ever had sex, we expected the usual backseats, bathrooms and parents' bedrooms. But we never imagined that one of you would actually have done it in a hot air balloon over Australia! Your answers ranged from barely...