November 28, 2008
iPhone to go on sale in Taiwan on Dec. 13, finally
8gb model is free (!) with a 2-year contract (NT$2549/US$76.50 per month plan). 16gb model is NT$2,990/US$89.80 with contract. What the plan includes in voice minutes and data amount is unknown at the time.
November 27, 2008
Video showing that if you move a chicken's body around, its head remains amazingly fixed in space
November 26, 2008
The Bank of Oklahoma Tower is basically a half-scale version of a World Trade Center tower
It was completed three years after the WTC.
November 25, 2008
Shaq started Twittering last week
With the way he talks, you could say that he's already been Twittering for years. Here's the NYT article about this.
November 21, 2008
Interview with Mark Bittman about cooking in his tiny kitchen
Interview with the designer of the logo for Obama's campaign
November 20, 2008
Chuck Klosterman reviews Chinese Democracy
November 19, 2008
November 18, 2008
Ouroussoff reviews Gehry's Art Gallery of Ontario
November 13, 2008
"The Daily Show" writers discuss the show
Video interview with Merkley???
Thomas Keller and Grant Achatz are collaborating on three 20-course, $1500 dinners
November 11 at Per Se, December 2 at Alinea and finally December 9 at The French Laundry.
November 9, 2008
Ninetree Village, a recently completed residential development in Hangzhou, by David Chipperfield
How to find the original Flickr photo URL and user from a static Flickr image URL
NYT on Maya Lin and the piece she's working on for Storm King
November 8, 2008
Researchers now believe that some of the more entrenched elements of many athletes' warm-up regimens are not only a waste of time but actually bad for you
The old presumption that holding a stretch for 20 to 30 seconds—known as static stretching—primes muscles for a workout is dead wrong. It actually weakens them.
