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13 Months in the Year of the Dog

Link: 13 Months of Dog Year.

Re-enactments of a years worth of stories from Chinese newspapers (via MeFi.) Not safe for work.

The Midlife Crisis Retreat - Home

Link: The Midlife Crisis Retreat - Home.

Hilarious advertising from Volkswagen: "You'll even get to meet Andy McNab."

A menu for murder | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited

Link: A menu for murder | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited.

The curious tale of Sir Jack Drummond, English wartime nutrition and post-war agribusiness. (Via hirez.)

Cyber Assaults on Estonia Typify a New Battle Tactic - washingtonpost.com

Link: Cyber Assaults on Estonia Typify a New Battle Tactic - washingtonpost.com.

How the next war will be fought?

The little corner of New York that could be renamed 'Little Britain' - Independent Online Edition > Americas

Link: The little corner of New York that could be renamed 'Little Britain' - Independent Online Edition > Americas.

Why the British - who presumably left home for a reason - feel the need for such institutions isn't clear. But they do. They pack the bar at the Soho House, the offshoot of the British club, just a few blocks away for the same reasons presumably. It's a tribal thing. They do better getting drunker together than most Americans and bask in some misplaced sense of shared superiority, although this conversation doesn't usually concern our gastronomic or dental prowess but our alleged better grasp of irony.

Oh dear. These people should just go home. Simon, I do hope you're not participating in any of this nonsense...

(Update: A.A. Gill's piece in Vanity Fair covers similar ground.)

 

Peter Ladner - Why does congestion always cost $1.5 billion?

Link: Peter Ladner - Why does congestion always cost $1.5 billion?.

NPA councillor Ladner takes a closer look at the assertions made about the economic costs of traffic congestion. In short, it seems like these numbers are probably completely made up.

Reuters AlertNet - ANALYSIS-Buyer beware, carbon cuts not always real

Link: Reuters AlertNet - ANALYSIS-Buyer beware, carbon cuts not always real.

The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: God I hope Murdoch buys the Journal

Link: The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: God I hope Murdoch buys the Journal.

they're worried because they know the place is 30% overstaffed and the Bancrofts don't have the stomach for cuts. Murdoch, on the other hand, could squeeze a quarter between his butt cheeks and produce two dimes and a nickel plus a penny for his trouble. He's that good.

THE FIFTY-NINE-STORY CRISIS

Link: THE FIFTY-NINE-STORY CRISIS.

You just worked out that the skyscraper you just designed could fall down at any minute? Wondering what to do next? I have some reasons to empathize with the characters in this story right now. (via MeFi, which has some opposing viewpoints.)

Peak To Peak

Whistler's "Peak To Peak" gondola is going to be something else... only 18 months to wait...