• Designer Pages. A slick new product info site for architects and designers. 

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• Chinatown Garbage Tour. “You’re invited on a FREE tour of the New York City Chinatown Garbage. Did you know you could make art out of dead animals? YES! I am going to show you how to collect dead animals from the garbage in Chinatown to make your own personal taxidermy!” 

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• End the Architect’s Complex, Pay Your Interns. (As far as I know) the practice of not paying staff does not occur in Australia, but what a horrible thought; working in an already underpaid profession – for free. 

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• Sydney architects Choi Ropiha have a new website up and running. They won the competition years ago for the new Tckts booth in Times Square.  

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• That is quite a runway you have there. An extraordinary suspended slab airport runway at Funchal Airport, Madeira.  

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• Richard Johnson Awarded the RAIA Gold Medal. Good to see a practising architect given this award after the last few years of long retired practitioners. Johnson of JPW has been responsible for many fine buildings in Australia. 

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• Google Sky. Like google maps, only looking up, not down. 

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• Puddleblog. The splendid meeting of failed hydraulic infrastructure and topographic surface deformation. 

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• NSW State Government is looking into offering free train travel before 7am. It seems like a good incentive to get a few more cars off the road. 

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• Visualisation of all of earths air and water as spheres shown at the same scale as Earth. There does not appear to be much of either. 

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• A map of Australian Aborginal tribal boundaries. Via 1+1=3 

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• Fun with pencils. Thanks Garvan. 

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• Methodiziaz – Hire a stranger to stalk and photograph you out in public. 

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• An upcoming Lego Creator for the iPhone. 

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• Tonight’s talk at Tusculum is on Alts+Ads with presentations from Olivia Hyde, Genevieve Lilley, Stephen Collier and SC nemesis, Hannah Tribe. 11th March, 6:30pm Tusculum.  

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• Sigg Jones. A pretty incredible French home made animated film with a whole lot of unsolicited product placement. Expect to hear much more of these guys… 

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• Powers of Ten. An exhibition of UTS student work in which Sydney’s Town Hall is redesigned.  

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• The latest episode of ifanboy takes a look at the real and fictional cities of various Super Heroes. Gotham City, Metropolis, Hub City, Manhattan and so on. Be warned – this is hyper geeky stuff here. 

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• Is your current CAD program is not meeting your 3D needs? Maybe give Microsoft Excel a go… 

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• Today’s Archidose is a house in Lillyfield here in Sydney. It looks quite nice. I used to work with Allison Nobbs years and years ago. Funny how this internet thing works… 

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• New holograms of the Queen on display. “Chris Levine’s images, worth £1m collectively, show the Queen in a succession of off-guard moments. ‘They get away from the usual static portraits and get us closer to the real sensory experience of life, of being with someone,’ Levine said.” 

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• Another one? 

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