...Douglas Rushkoff is currently "guest-blogging" over on Boing Boing. His entire intro piece is amusing, and well worth a read, but this line in particular leapt out:
"It's hard to figure out how to make traffic flow in a city originally designed for cars..."
Yes, Doug. Try figuring it out for one originally designed for horses.
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/22/rushkoff-here.html __________________________
Bonus item for
astartesyriaca and others:
"A rare medieval cookbook is to be digitally photographed page by page and the results uploaded to the internet for gourmands around the globe to study."
More here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/sep/22/10 __________________________
David Blaine to be suspended upside-down for 60 years!
Er, sorry. Make that 60 hours. It's not enough, is it?
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080922/tts-uk-newyork-blaine-84c9cd5.html