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condohype

05/23/07 12:57 PM

I’m loving this new blog that savages the vacuous marketing behind the condos that are springing up all around Vancouver like mushrooms in cow shit:
condohype [via Rob Cottingham]

First impressions are important and Origin’s is one of timeless elegance, thanks to West Coast-inspired architecture and enduring, natural-looking materials like timber, brick and Hardie plank siding.
“Natural-looking materials?” […]

Boston continues its war on objects

02/28/07 11:10 AM

Still on a roll after detonating a suspicious-looking Lite-Brite, today the Boston Bomb squad detonated what was apparently a suspicious-looking
traffic counter. That will teach the terrorists over in the traffic control division.

Life Imitates The Onion, again

02/26/07 1:01 PM

Well, if right-wing ideologues have anything to do with “life,” that is. The funny thing is, while this:
Fears of Canada-Mexico superhighway driving U.S. critics loco
Are North American governments secretly conspiring to build a “NAFTA superhighway,” four football fields wide, from Mexico to Canada, to bypass regulatory controls and whisk goods swiftly to market?
looks superficially […]