"In the years since Albania’s 1991 revolution, satellite dishes and air conditioners have sprouted from the sides of Tirana’s buildings like disembodied ears and noses. Last year the city’s artist-mayor Edi Rama invited German architects Bolles + Wilson to create a color scheme for a prominent apartment house between the parliament building and former dictator Enver Hoxha’s villa as part of his plan to brighten the post-Communist city—and instead of pretending the awkward appendages didn’t exist, the architects decided to incorporate them into their design." [via We Make Money Not Art]

Incredibly inspiring story from SI of the most dedicated dad in the world. [via digg]

The Urban Forest Project consists of dozens of banners around Times Square by designers, artists, and photographers, based on the theme of a tree. View all the banners online. [via BADG]

Fear leads to hormonal cycle irregularities in rats that lead to cancer.

The complete works of Charles Darwin are going online. Not exactly reading for pleasure, but a great resource.

A photo of Foamhenge from my aunt Nancy. "I was driving down the back roads after leaving Lexington, VA on my last visit, and what should I see up on the hill to my right... out in the middle of nowhere... but FOAMHENGE! Yep, right there in plain sight, on the side of the road in rural Virginia is a life-size replica of Stonehenge." Very weird. I wonder if there's mini-golf beneath it. Only one way to find out. [thanks Nancy]

Good old fashioned racism in the form of a Republican campaign targeting black voters.

Nighttime marches in Pyongyang of thousands of North Koreans holding candles to make animated typography. Amazing, terrifying, and sad.

The Nutty Buddy. Watch the video. (I forget where I found this.)

Ze Frank recently launched a new ad model for his site for The Show, and it's really quite cool. "Ze is obsessed with rubber duckies, so a big duckie plus a 50-character mouse-over message will cost you $50. For ten bucks, you get a tiny duckie, and $5 buys you a jewel. It's very clever and allows the viewers to sponsor the show with whatever message they want. And don't think Ze's viewers don't read the messages." [Pomo blog via unmediated]

Keith Olbermann: The beginning of the end of America. [via digg]


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