In the Realm of Jet Lag, a Pico Iyer piece from 2004 that includes the story of Sarah Krasnoff, a woman who abducted her grandson in a custody dispute, then fled to the only place she thought would be free from the law, the international flight: 'They took about 160 flights in all, one after the other, according to the stage piece ''Jet Lag.'' They saw 22 movies an average of seven times each. They ate lunch again and again and turned their watches six hours forward, then six hours back. The whole fugitive enterprise ended when Krasnoff, 74, finally collapsed and died, the victim, doctors could only suppose, of terminal jet lag.'

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The London Nobody Knows (part two and three). James Mason narrated gem. See also the earlier Colour on the Thames, part of the BFI's YouTube presence / Abandonia, urban exploration / the Noise Mapping England website / Mr and Mrs Wheatley, a weblog / Chislehurst Caves, underground in SE London.

Wonderful installation by Jonathan Schipper, 'Slow Inevitable Death of American Muscle', a slow-motion car-crash. Very Burden-esque. YouTube commenters are predictably unhappy / Langlands and Bell's digital installation at wallpaper / Michel Gondry Entertained For Days By New Cardboard Box / the Soviet passion for reverse engineered Sinclair computers.

72 views of the Tower of Babel (via me-fi). See also 'Two-mile high termite nest proposed to counter the population challenge' / a rather pithy summary of the end of the era for the desert Guggenheim: Architect Rem Koolhaas saw what Vegas didn't have, not what it needed. Perhaps this will be the same fate of the Gulf cultural building boom?

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The life of a Lebanese taxicab, including this striking image of downtown Beirut in 1969 / Nick Cave Fixes, an unofficial site / Newly Released UFO files from the UK government (via the BBC). See also the book E.T. Culture: Anthropology in Outerspaces / art by Josh Keyes.

This isn't happiness, a tumblelog / has potential: potential architecture, unbuilt projects with a focus on Norway / farewell to the The faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands, destroyed by fire, along with a large chunk of modernist architectural history (news via archinect). For the faculty, it's a new start, and doubtless some form of architectural opportunity.

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