Yet another collection of strange buildings, a typical product of contemporary listomania. It's strange how these lists intersperse the 'modern' with the vernacular and the just plain crazy, making no aesthetic distinction between - as Venturi might have it - ducks and sheds, adverts and experiments, or even innovation and eccentricity. Related, Julius Shulman has died, aged 98. Perhaps the man most responsible for generating modernism's shift from functionalism to iconism, Shulman's camera chronicled contemporary architecture finding itself as a glossy life enhancement of an already gilded existence, rather than a tool for improving things from the bottom up.

It's great to be called the web equivalent of the 8-track, with .htm file extensions and all (thanks, kottke), but we genuinely don't know how to do this differently. We like the post that attempts to define what fast looks like though / Curated Magazine / Indian tiger park 'has no tigers'.

Keeping Up Appearances: London Turns Eye to Empty Mansions, a piece on the prevalence of apparently abandoned properties in Mayfair. Where there's wealth, there's waste: the Bishops Avenue in Hampstead is another haven for Ghost McMansions and 'evil' squatters' (via Wired).

How long will it take to remove the word "videotape" from the collective vocabulary? Probably never / the power of words: you should follow me on twitter / Cyrket is a desktop Android application browser / dome u planeta, a weblog / the Hobo Code, referenced in Mad Men, parodied by Cockeyed.

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