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What to do when you want to keep with the traditional local architectural style when building a 160 room hotel, but that style only creates 4-5 story townhomes?
Stack them 70 of them!

(image from WAM, via )

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The Muuto Cat Dome is a habitat for your pet cat and goldfish to interact with each other. The ultimate entertainment for a cat is a moving creature, and the ultimate entertainment for its owner is seeing this playful interaction. (from)

From the recent Paris Fashion Week, which showcased RTW fashions for spring 2010 comes a perfect example of the importance of angle.  Viktor and Rolf exhibited a collection including heavily chopped tulle.  The first 2 pieces are amusing, but unremarkable



The third, however, at the right angle achieves what must have been its intent

A more direct view of it makes it far less interesting

(Three large pictures from style.com, smaller one from Jacques Brinon/Associated Press, VIA)
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• Somewhat dull reporting and images from London's recent Jewelry Week
• Much more exciting, finally a name to go with some pictures of uncut diamond jewelry I photographed in Paris, it is the work of Patrice Fabre. 
  

• A fantastic watch blog, entirely in Hungarian.  Even not able to read a single word, the movement section provided a fantastic collection of photos.
• From the New York Times, a review of a contemporary furniture exhibit at the V&A, including the fantastic "Robber Baron" wardrobe. More information and some close-up shots of the detailed, if a bit disturbed, bronze castings available from Moss (below, closed from Moss, open from the V&A website)

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• Martin Baas Grandfatherclock - Most unusual in mechanism
• A bit on Apologetics - from Biblia Hebraica, a bit of discussion with a good defense of critical Biblical scholarship versus Apologetics, and an interesting example of the difficulty of handling that difference within the broader field.  It's hard to take the some of the comments seriously, but that is somewhat the inherent problem
• Akkadian/English Cognate - I never would have expected something like this, but.... (remember that an 's' with a caron on it, š, makes an 'sh' sound) [via]