Saudi Arabia is reportedly planning to build the tallest building in the world.
And could there be a more appropriate, fiscally prudent and not-at-all-utterly-hatstand time to do such a thing? We think not.
The proposed Kingdom Tower in Jeddah will apparently be 1,600m, or a full mile tall. It will cost $30 billion to build and will be nearly twice the height of the current tallest building in the world – the Burj Khalifa at Dubai in neighbouring UAE.
C&H has gone all bleak, lately.
Random House Children’s Books has just announced the publication of The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories: seven ‘new’ Dr Seuss stories that appeared in magazines between 1950 and 1951 but were never released in book form.
The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories by Dr. Seuss, who died in 1991, will be available September 27. It includes “The Bear, the Rabbit, and the Zinniga-Zanniga,” about a rabbit who is saved from a bear with a single eyelash; “Gustav the Goldfish,” an early, rhymed version of the book A Fish Out of Water; “Tadd and Todd,” a tale passed down via photocopy to generations of twins; “Steak for Supper,” about creatures who follow a boy home in anticipation of a steak dinner; “The Bippolo Seed,” in which a scheming feline leads an innocent duck to make a bad decision; “The Strange Shirt Spot,” which was the inspiration for the bathtub-ring scene in The Cat in the Hat Comes Back; and “The Great Henry McBride,” about a boy whose far-flung career fantasies are only bested by those of the real Dr. Seuss.
The book can be pre-ordered now on Amazon but won’t be released until September 2011.
Access Main Computer File is a celebration of classic computer interface scenes from Hollywood movies. Once on the site, names and dates appear when you mouse over the stills.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp9iJ3pPuL8
On March 12, the Japanese government issued an evacuation order for residents living within the 20 kilometer radius of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Since then, the no-man’s-land has been out of touch with the rest of the world.
A Japanese journalist, Tetsuo Jimbo, ventured through the evacuation zone last Sunday and filed the following video report.
He says that, inside the zone, homes, building, roads and bridges, which were torn down by Tsunami, are left completely untouched, herds of cattle and pet dogs left behind by their owners wander around the town while the radiation level remains far beyond legal limits.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U
An animated version of Australian comedian, musician, punk whimsicalist and guyliner aficionado, Tim Minchin’s epic beat-poem Storm.
It’s excellent. You should watch it this minute.
The Apple Store playset from Playmobile: including Keynote Theatre, a miniature Genius bar, tiny iPhones, iPads and a special add-on linepack including Steve Wozniak on a segway.
Available from Playmobile for between $50 and $180.
At least, it would be, if the whole thing hadn’t been a rather brilliant April Fools prank this time last week.
