Just stumbled across an incredibly detailed panorama of Tokyo on an Australian photo blog called digitalarts Mind Socket. Much of Tokyo – in fact much of Japan – consists of this never-ending and never-changing conglomerations of concrete mid-rise buildings with the odd high-rise thrown in for variety. The first impression on the traveler to Japan [...]
To counter the permanently negative press that video game enthusiasts are getting, the makers of the Penny Arcade have created a charity called Child’s Play that supports children’s hospitals from all over the world with toys. The system is beautifully simple – choose a children’s hospital from the map on the site and you will [...]
While I do not always agree with Jim Kunstler, he writes with a steady, intense passion about what our future without oil will be like. He abhors the suburbanized, mall-ified modern cities that have sprung up all over the United States with their dependence on cars and cheap oil and I fully agree with him [...]