World’s Biggest Domino Rally

Boom!. 16 buildings being simultaneously demolished in Honk Kong using 1500lbs of explosives. One of the buildings actually remains standing and had to be ‘manually’ pulled down later. It’s a really odd feeling to see the 16 buildings, which are all about the same size as the tallest buildings here in Edinburgh, being completely dwarfed by all the surrounding towers. See also: ‘Architecture of Density’ Hong Kong hive living.

The U.S. Secret Service have redacted the text under a high school student’s year book picture, after he won the accolade ‘Most likely to assassinate President Bush’.

Bamboo T-shirts. Made from bamboo fibre and cotton, the description of them on the page looks just great. They only cost a paltry 10 Yanqui dollars too; I may have to get hold of one.

Overheard snippets of conversation on the London Underground.

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