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The ‘sustainable’ discotheque

Rotterdam could soon be the new home to the ‘first sustainable’ dance club where you can move it move it in an ecologically sound manner. Details look dubious though. It could be pretty great but since the opening is by invitation only and ours seems to have gotten lost in the mail, you’ll have to let us know. The dance-floor generates energy (presumably not in the usual nightclub sense). The...
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Cash for organs may be best

The British Medical Journal is often full of surprises. This time the latest shocker is that they are publishing a piece arguing that people ought to be paid for ‘donating’ their organs.   The piece argues that if the government can regulate the economy of the live human organ market that they can curb the existing black market for contraband organs which is the hidden reality in many parts of the...
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Big Bad Bullys Ban Beck’s Beats

Chartmakers in the UK have banned Beck’s latest effort from ranking up in their eyes. Is his music too ccontroversial? No. They are actually banning him because his CD is packaged with an added DVD featuring videos stickers and helps his fans create their own artwork. Who knew that giving the fans more content and attempting to embrace new business models could result in exclusion from your peirs. It really is...
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The secret of the suburbs

Matthew Summers-Sparks has a write-up in The New York Times about the resurgence in popularity of secret rooms and passages in otherwise typical suburban homes. Apparently this thing is becoming increasingly common to the delight of firefighters everywhere. Perhaps in this age of questionable privacy such spaces become necessary as sanctuaries from the invasiveness of contemporary living and the desire for a private...
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An ordinary building

Greg Smith tips us off to Franco Mattes and Eva Mattes who are stirring it up in Viterbo with their ordinary building piece. Long story short; they have installed a plaque on a building which looks like a city historical building plaque except the copy discusses how unremarkable the building in question is. Reactions are definitely mixed with some questioning the authorship of ‘history’ and others simply...
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