Ultra small house in Toyko. Parking space-sized
It’s superbly-designed and cost $500,000, a bargain for Tokyo, and is on three floors. But still, the primary reason for its size is the stratospheric price of housing there.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Month November 2010
Drug cartel hit men now operating in Arizona
There are good reasons why residents in Arizona are freaked by what’s happening on their border. It’s not just xenophobia and racism. Unlike other states, the Arizona border is so rugged that a fence can’t be built, hence it is…
Eurozone getting wobbly, bailouts coming
Portugal needs a bailout. So does Ireland. It used to be banks, now it’s countries.
Build your own road
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UymdI1zXuI0&feature=player_embedded Tiger Stone will lay 400 meters of brick road a day. BldgBlog A new street-printing device—unfurling a geological substrate known as Tiger Stone, as orderly and as easy “as laying laminate flooring”—can neatly place brick roads where there weren’t…
Cool It. The Movie. A new approach to climate change
In Cool It, Bjoern Lomborg says current climate change initiatives are based on fear and that new approaches are needed. He says he admires Gore’s documentary since “his movie made us all aware of climate change”. However, “it did…