what is liz herber doing?

DRIVING ROBOTZ IN TOKYO.

nErD aLeRt!

here are the latest renderings from the ongoing quest to ruin the north brooklyn waterfront:

When Two Trees plunked down $185 million to buy the Domino Sugar Factory development site last summer, the already-approved plans for four-towers and 2,200 apartments were universally hated. The hulking buildings were bland and boxy, so Two Trees went to SHoP Architects (is there any major project these guys don't get?) and asked them to make it better—and by God, they did. Here now, we bring you the first renderings of the new New Domino. The number of apartments is the same, but SHoP added 60 percent more open space, two office buildings, a school, and more community amenities. SHoP principal Vishaan Chakrabarti and Two Trees Director of Special Projects David Lombino shared the 3.3 million-square-foot plan with us, detailing how this mega project is fundamentally different from the Brooklyn waterfront developments that came before it. (via)

i don't hate the architecture. if we've got to put some huge buildings right there, it'd be nice if they were kind of cool.

this was brought to my attention by thomas wilhelm, who raises an excellent question: how are all these people going to get to work, the L TRAIN?!?!

aaaaaaaaHAH AHaHAHAhAHA HA ahAH!!!

oh yeah. this please.

check out this baby b-girl going hamburger on an older boy in a breakdancing competition for babies. her entrance move is how i go from my bed to the shower each morning, jicyww.

monday morning desk cry

i had no idea that this song i loved was about hoping your grandma doesn't die.

here's the original, electrified version.

and i recommend checking out autre ne veut's whole album. it's excellent.

bad news beach bums

ft. tilden beach is going to be closed all season and maybe even beyond. it just isnt a priority. now where am i supposed to go drink in the sand? is instagram going to make it through the summer without all those ft. tilden pics? where is g.animalz going to wear her caftans? someone answer me!

pedro almodovar is so weird, but his movies are beautiful

this one looks good too. via.

amy poehler punks seth meyers on watch what happens live

fairway's back

fairway market, an anchor in red hook, reopens

see what they did there?

harbinger of your doom

this robot can rip your head off.

did you guys see what happened to thomas wilhelm last night?

A 100-foot wide sinkhole opened up directly under a house in the town of Seffner, Florida, last night, nearly killing two brothers and forcing authorities to evacuate the entire neighborhood. One of the brothers, a 36-year-old man, is missing and presumed dead, but firefighters have been unable to fully investigate because the house itself is deemed too unsafe to be inside. The hole underneath the house is estimated to be more than 100 feet wide, but it is not visible from outside the house.

The other brother told rescuers that he heard screams coming from his brother's bedroom around 11:00 p.m. last night, but by the time he got to the room, the bed and everything in it had been swallowed up by the ground caving in beneath it. (via)

david bowie - the next day

the new album is surprise streaming on itunes.


click here!

dedicated to kylie

Oh, What a Beautiful Morning!

NASA answers all your questions about that Russian meteor

I'm not some kind of paranoid freak, but I do believe that WTC tower 7 was a controlled demolition and I find it very difficult to believe that two space rocks happened to arrive within hours of each other. via

BRANDY! SHOW ME THE NOTE!

terry gross tuesday

it's not tuesday, but this fresh air interview is not conducted by terry gross, so we'll bend the rules a little.

if you'd like to add a little excitement and intrigue and organized criminal history to your day, take a listen at this interview with the authors of a new book about notorious boston gangtser, whitey bulger. you might remember him from jack nicholson in the departed.

it is pretty engrossing, and you get some really great boston accents, too.

solange was adorable on letterman

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