Note who built this. Ouch!
“2 November: Saudi Arabian men ride on the newly-opened holy sites metro light rail in Mecca. The Chinese-built monorail project, will link Mecca with the holy sites of Mina, Arafat and Muzdalifah, and will operate for the first time during the hajj this month”
The annual hajj pilgrimage to Mecca | Travel | guardian.co.uk.
For the first time in years I’m impressed by something from Microsoft. Seriously good stuff.
A Necessary Ruin: The Story of Buckminster Fuller and the Union Tank Car Dome on Vimeo
Why does the replacement building look like a shed? What happened to the beautiful shapes of the future?
“In Galena, Ill., passers-by might have seen a man in a shabby military greatcoat and slouch hat trudging to work that Thursday morning, as he did every weekday. He was Ulysses Grant, a middle-aged shop clerk in his family’s leather-goods store.”
Really? With a name like that I expected at least royalty.
…but did he forsee his own end?
Paul, the WCup predicting octopus, dies at 2½ – USATODAY.com.
“The unspeakable depression of lighting the fires every morning with papers of a year ago, and getting glimpses of optimistic headlines as they go up in smoke.”
Far too true…
