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I'm sorry, does that mean that we have - up until now - been living in an era of careful consumption?

If you live in an earthquake prone area, concrete construction is a pretty big selling point. I just spent several days looking for an apartment in Tokyo and "Concrete Construction" was generally listed as the first feature on all new buildings. They are marketing the building to the...

As a former Amsterdammer, I can tell you that the Dutch use two main theories. The first is to make sure that your everyday bike looks like a cheap piece of crap that nobody would want to steal. Spraypainting it pink seems to work. All Dutch people own a shitty bike for regular use and a nice...

The stadiums being replaced right now were built before the owners had heard of "corporate boxes" or realized that that was where the real money was. I believe that the price of real estate in New York has a lot to do with stadiums being in New Jersey. The owners get the cities to cough up...

A seat licence is not the same thing as a ticket. A seat licence is upfront money for the priveledge of buying tickets. It would be a huge lump sum payment. So rather than accumulating interest on an $800M loan, the owners would be accumulating interest on an $800M deposit as the stadium was...

You didn't ask for my opinion but I'm in a giving mood. Gullible people don't deserve to be swindled any more than weak people deserve to be bullied or attractive people (like me) deserve to be sexually harrassed. The church doesn't ask people to hand over their life savings on day 1. I...

I would like to see an entrance to the water garden added to the PATH which passes right in front of it under King. It would give people a nice place to have lunch outside but away from the street and would prevent the garden from feeling so abandoned (except for the ducks). It might even give...

An oldie but a goodie.

I'm good with the whole 'bring down the church of scientology infrastructure' thing but can't we combine it with a whole lot of mocking their stupid beliefs as well? Wouldn't they get a lot less recruits who they could steal from if everyone who walked by the recruiting centre pointed and...

Really? I thought that the reason they were building a new Olympic stadium in London was because Wembley was unusable without a track. Hockey to basketball means removing the rink boards and putting some plywood over the ice and adding some temporary seating - "Floor Seats".

Art, I'm really not sure if your post is snark or not. From the reviews that I've read, Stein's movie primarily about blaming Charles Darwin for the Nazi Holocaust. And the movie is openly a call for creationism to be taught in science classes which has put the producers in a direct...

I have a hard time seeing how an NFL stadium and combined Pan Am Games stadium can work for both parties. The Pan Am Games don't need 80,000 seats or the stadium will look empty and no NFL team wants a permanent running track moving the fans in the premium boxes farther from the action.

Anyone interested in finding out more about this hilariously inept piece of propaganda should be reading PZ Myers at Pharyngula (if, for some reason, you don't already read PZ every day!).

I don't know what you normally drive but if you are concerned about parallel parking - rent a Mini or a Smart car, practice in it and take your test in it. You know where your back wheels are so you won't hit the curb, you know where your back bumper is so you won't hit anything behind you and...

Thought that I would provide an update. After carefully weighing the opinions of the 10 strangers who voted in an online poll (Thank you everyone), I will be heading off to Tokyo in mid-April. I will be sure to post photos.

Great shots. Thank you. I think I would be paranoid of missing the last ferry back. Does anyone know what the "Free" signs are all about?

I just saw an ad on the Dutch comedy channel. They are about to start showing the Trailer Park Boys. Sweet. It's funny when the commercials include all of the swearing. The Dutch love the F-Word. Also, that Little Mosque on the Prairie show is apparently on one of the big Dutch networks...

The only programs that get dubbed are children's programs. Everything else is subbed. This is great for the foreigners like me except when in an English program there are characters speaking in a third language which is subtitled into English. In those cases, English subtitles are replaced...

I would say that it's because most Dutch and European television isn't all that good. Even British TV isn't universally great. I think that those few great British shows that make it across the pond (The Office or Extras for example) and the great British shows that don't make it across the...

Sort of off topic but I thought I would share the Canadian content that I get on TV in the Netherlands. Most importantly, I get Hockey Night In Canada double headers on Saturday night (Sunday morning) and since they show the national game, I always get the Leaf game. Of course, this is on...