Paleo-Future: Desolation Row CanikPhotos has a great collection of photos from Taiwan of a housing development that was never completed. The set is called Desolation Row and has a companion set called Desolation Row Redux.

Die Anlage bei Google Maps

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BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Vanuatu cargo cult marks 50 years

Residents of the South Pacific island of Tanna worship an American „messiah“ named John Frum who first appeared to them in the 1930s. According to a village elder quoted in a recent Smithsonian article, John promised to someday return and „he’ll bring planeloads and shiploads of cargo to us from America if we pray to him. Radios, TVs, trucks, boats, watches, iceboxes, medicine, Coca-Cola and many other wonderful things.”

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Die 100 Besten Schriften „Heute ist die Internet-Seite zum FontShop-Ranking »100 beste Schriften aller Zeiten« an den Start gegangen – die Ergänzung zum gleichnamigen Magazin. Auf der Website findet ihr die ungekürzten 100 Schriftporträts und zusätzliche Abbildungen. Schriftenfreunde haben die Möglichkeit, die vorgestellten Fonts zu kommentieren und mit anderen zu diskutieren.“

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Miracle fruit alters sense of taste

Covert Dining in New York: Miracle Fruit

Wunderbeere — Wikipedia

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Graffiti Research Lab » LED Throwies (via)

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Graffiti Research Lab » Night Writer (via)

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