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Rooting around a nutty Christian website, which debunks UFO chasers with stuff that makes the maddest of the tin foil hat people look positively sane: Intelligent Life in Outer Space? "That's right, one of the reasons that God made the Moon, solar system and stars was to provide a way for us to distinguish the passage of time (days, months and years) and predict the coming of seasons. Without these heavenly bodies, the job of keeping time and navigation would have been far more difficult." So the reason for creating 99.9999999999999..99% percent of everything was so that the 0.0000000000000...001% have a wristwatch. Thats the best argument for a blind watchmaker I've ever heard.

Pity the poor guy that has this on his business card. Sort of like the Empire State building meets Japan, in a very bad way.link »tags: [weird] via Wists: link

Force Ministries - a Christian organization indistinguishable from a terrorist one.link »tags: [religion] via Wists: link

An empty, glass enclosed entrance with a spiral stair to an underground room - coincidentally, the architecure of Apple's new store is schematically identical to the Louvre, the main setting of the Da Vinci Code which also opens tomorrow.link »tags: [architecture] via Wists: link

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Why settle for a one bedroom Manhattan Apt the size of an Oklahoma McMansion's garage when you can get something as big as Disneyland, with as many turrets. Here's a wists list of fantasy real estate for sale in Europe.link »tags: [real_estate] posted via Wists: permamark

The Spanish Architecture exhibition at Moma reveals the startling fact that, despite its relatively small size, there are more innovative new buildings being built in Spain than in the whole of the US. A few years ago, this was not the case. America was the architectural capital of the world in the 20th century, with Chicago its leader in academic terms, but New York, winner of the people's choice award. Every day as I walk around New York I marvel not just at the buildings but the people that had both the balls and, simultaneously, the sensibility to build them. Yet New York is becoming a living museum of the 20th Century, if a design as radical as the Chrysler Building was submitted today, it would likely not get built. Perhaps this is innevitable and not all bad. When Duchamps' Large Glass was broken in transport - he claimed that...

Treehugger founder, Graham Hill also chooses Wists as one of his favorite sites.link »tags: [news] posted via Wists: permamark

Interesting trends - the split between Catholic and Protestant looks like Northern Ireland. Jewish and Muslim populations are largely co-incident. Money and religion are somewhat mutually exclusive. Oregon is nice and godless.link »tags: [religion] posted via Wists: permamark

This is Yum Brand's (owner of KFC's) satement on bird flu. Even if cooked chicken is safe, the coming chicken cull is going to make Zinger sandwiches cost more. Yum's share price has been pretty stable - time to short before bird migration.link »tags: [news] posted via Wists: permamark