until the weiner poopie gets cleaned.

from: ihasahotdog

the article itself is ridiculously long and every other paragraph seems like a tangent on elevators, but there’s an interesting idea to it

how would you spend 40 hours with yourself?

here’s the time lapse video:

here’s the article:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/04/21/080421fa_fact_paumgarten?currentPage=all

a fun snippet:

Loading up an empty elevator car with discarded Christmas trees, pressing the button for the top floor, then throwing in a match, so that by the time the car reaches the top it is ablaze with heat so intense that the alloy (called “babbitt”) connecting the cables to the car melts, and the car, a fireball now, plunges into the pit: this practice, apparently popular in New York City housing projects, is inadvisable.

“…spent the last two years of his career collecting used chopsticks from the cafeteria. An experienced canoe builder, Ogawara spent over 3 months gluing 7,382 chopsticks together into strips to form the canoe shell, to which he added a polyester resin coat.”

link

“vice” has undertaken a video project in which they are posting short, weekly videos taken by a staff member that somehow finagled his way into north korea. the videos are haunting, eerie, and incredibly interesting. i would most definitely suggest a viewing to get an inside look at this cloistered culture.

the vice guide to north korea.

you can, in fact, book your vacation with kanye west.

the deals on the site are actually quite good, especially the last minute deals. i’m in the process of resisting a weekend trip to san diego. i may give up resisting soon.

kanye travels.

(larger view).

the chart above is a visual representation of where us citizens and british citizens stand on many major issues. it’s interesting to see where these differences lie, and how vast they can be. one in particular that caught my attention was the varying opinions on global warming.

the full article that goes with this chart can be found here.