self-imposed limits on technology make it more likely that human ingenuity will develop an elegant response to its environment. the idea is ...

if i move here, i will be cartographically prepared. doubles as weatherproofing. [thx g + c]

worthwhile, and the opening pages about pattern should be required reading for organizational behaviorists. ... no pattern is an isolat...

interviewer: What would you like to tell people? andrei tarkovsky : I don’t know … I think I’d like to say only that they should learn to...

"Renunciation," I said, "even at this late date, can work." "I'd agree with that," said Arkady. "The ...

saturday, before dinner at 900 degrees in manchester, NH—a pizza parlor with no similarities to this new york museum of pizza diversity oth...

richard feynman, he say: "i think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong." righ...

are you in new york city? go to the flavin/judd show at david zwirner's new poured concrete building on w 20th st at 11 ave. on the gr...

it continues to be my privilege to be acquainted with the entire staff of kat ran press . this week, i paid a too-short visit to its taste...

It seems to me that there was no need for American Airlines to undertake such a change, but many people do not understand the difference ...

this is important. How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are do...

like virgin america's launch inflight safety video and melbourne metro's dumb ways to die , almost every moment of this air new z...

this is jaime fennelly : Pass Into The Driftless by Mind Over Mirrors howdy pardner and the hard truths, my easy-listening aloha-shirt c...

i cannot vouch for the quality of this establishment's coffee, though its mascot leaves nothing to be desired.

if on a winter's night a traveler, this morning he would be a little bump in the white and smooth expanse. the mayor of new york city ...

the line for this was inconveniently long.

by tokumaru shūgo , stop-motion animation by kijek/adamski .

with the powerlines and streetlike aspect, this looks like a desert village. in fact, it is a view of sector 8 of the purna kumbh mela si...

midday, on the triveni road, we met a sadhu who invited us to lunch at his akhara. under a tarpaulin stretched across branches, we were ha...

the 37signals blog sometimes throws up real gems. this is a long promotional video for the polaroid SX-70 SLR folding camera , beautifully ...

the kumbh mela is a recurring hindu pilgrimage featuring many lights, a complicated social ordering, and many tens of millions of people try...

an early morning arrival on a heathrow-delhi flights offers serene vistas of the craggy, snow-covered peaks of the himalayas. indira gandh...

this quite remarkable performance by enra is certainly worth watching.

the same wine—a 2008 serine (thought to be a syrah relative) from nuclear physicist-turned-winemaker éric texier (brézème, domaine de perg...

this food item contains absolutely no shellfish.

on the way to DCA, we stopped at the hirshhorn (a pile of nested toruses inside a big cylinder, by the unfortunately named gordon bunsha...

to celebrate the arbitrarily anthropocentric turning of the year, i brought bagels and bialys south from kossar's to DC, there to join w...

I think our whole society is much too problem-solving oriented. It is far more interesting to [participate in] ‘problem creation’ … You kno...