September 2009
15 posts
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Snow Leopard Combines Minor Improvements, Major...
As the name implies, Snow Leopard appears to add just a little dash of flavor to Apple’s previous operating system, Leopard. But OS X 10.6, as it’s officially known, is paws-down the best Mac OS yet, and it costs a dirt-cheap $30 for those who are already running Leopard.
It also adds significant new features that don’t make much of a difference today, but will in the year to...
Chicago's 2016 Olympics bid threatens Gropius...
Courtesy City of Chicago
Hoping to be selected as the host city for the 2016 Summer Olympics, the City of Chicago is actively planning for new facilities to accommodate the games. Those plans currently threaten a complex of post-World War II buildings on Chicago’s lakefront, the Michael Reese Hospital Campus, largely planned and co-designed by Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius. While the city...
National Library, Bjarke Ingles Group - Copenhagen
From WAN:
Copenhagen architects beat Foster and Hadid with ‘modern and rational’ library
Invited as one of five pre-selected architect led teams, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) was awarded first prize in an open international design competition which included 19 entrants amongst others Lord Norman Foster and Zaha Hadid.
The new National Library, named after the first President of the...
August 2009
28 posts
From Blackbook
Kylie Minogue has nothing to prove. She’s the sweetheart of just about every nation in the world. Countless European tabloid covers have devoted serious headline space to her romance with Italian pin-up Andrés Velencoso, 10 years her junior. The mini-divinity has not one, but five fragrances. She was even honored with the prestigious Order of the British Empire and the French Order of Arts and...
La Roux Announces A Few North American Tour Dates...
La Roux is back in the USA baby! British synth-pop sensation La Roux is set to hit North America for a slew of tour dates in support of her album coming out September 29th. If you haven’t heard ‘Bulletproof’ or ‘In For The Kill’ yet then get on it, because these are two of the hottest jams to come from the UK this summer.
With just about a month left until the US...
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July 2009
50 posts
