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The Shackleton Centenary Expedition website (via fed by birds ), re-tracing the legendary 1909 Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole. See A Low-Latitude Antarctic Gazette for more polar tales.
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EEA is calling the Black Sea scheme Federation Island - it is shaped like a scaled-down version of Russia itself - and notes that 'the Dutch experience in reclaiming land from water will benefit the project, which [we] consider to be unique among its kind.'
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David Rooney on the south London locations associated with William Willett, creator of British Summer Time / a Bang and Olufsen fan page / Gaming Magazines of the Pre-Internet Era ( via ) / 'This page is dedicated to the history of all things Street Level.
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More Hidden Glasgow, a gem of a site (see ' water towers ') / The Piracy Paradox, James Surowiecki in The New Yorker on the role copying plays in progressing planned obsolescence.
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An online transcription, and reading, of Under Milk Wood (via haddock ). There's even the occasional Lovecraft story (via The Best Media in Life is Free ) / from free media to free housing, Squatter, the 'advisory service to squatters', with a downloadable history of squatting.
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The Lindbergh kidnap is a lesson for the McCanns - and the media, Ian Jack in the Guardian, in a piece about the parallels between the Madeleine McGann case and the Lindberg case, tells how the case inspired Isamu Noguchi's rather eerie radio nurse, which has become a totemic modernist object.
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Fabulous footage of the opening of Expo 70 in Osaka, perhaps the most cohesive and exhilerating architectural event ever held. Via arkitektur, via ExpoMuseum, which has its own Blog, tracking upcoming Expos and Expo architecture.
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The house was rebuilt by Hardy, Holzman, Pfeiffer in 1978, with an angled, canted facade that hints strongly - perhaps too literally - at the blast that came from within the former structure. In their original incarnation, the architects designed the HQ for Best Products in Richmond, Virginia.
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Not content with conquering space, the latest releases from the Foster PR machine illustrate two vast design and planning projects; a Libyan eco-resort ('an area the size of Wales') and a zero-carbon city in Abu Dhabi. See also the work of Chris Foss / Unusual Life, a weblog / Blogs by Iranians.
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