Friday, May 22, 2009

Boxing Kangaroos in Chinese

Simple pleasure, I know, but I was checking my site meter and I had a very long visit here today from someone in Taiwan. The image at the left is how this site looks after going through Babelfish. Dang pretty.

Here's the link.


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Thursday, May 21, 2009

A Compendium of Beautiful Libraries

Rooms, it seems, are the theme for today. Here are more than a few amazing examples, from Curious Expeditions, in a post titled Librophiliac Love Letter: A Compendium of Beautiful Libraries:

For us here at Curious Expeditions, there has always been something about libraries. Row after row, shelf after shelf, there is nothing more magical than a beautiful old library.


The example here is from the Handelingenkamer Tweede Kamer Der Staten-Generaal Den Haag, or the Old Library of the House of Representatives in the Hague, Netherlands. (Click for much larger image.) You can practically smell it.


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Inspiring Hotel Rooms

There must be a Web site for everything.


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