1.  Kronan, Täby
2.  Olympus Pen F, Tokyo
3.  Café Hawelka, Vienna

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/

Public Collectors consists of informal agreements where collectors allow the contents of their collection to be published and permit those who are curious to directly experience the objects in person. Participants must be willing to type up an inventory of their collection, provide a means of contact and share their collection with the public. Collectors can be based in any geographic location.

Including what “may be the world’s largest collection of home-recorded VHS tapes available to the public” and “a small collection of digest-size adult comics from Mexico.”

http://www.publiccollectors.org/

The Sea and Cake — Jacking the Ball.
Purportedly their first gig, The Lounge Ax, Chicago, 1993.

After revealed that Moses was the first graffiti artist (he sprayed on Hebrews’ doors to save them from tenth plague), another Hip-Hop culture bedrock is felled by Ancient History. Rapper Lil’Wayne is not the first to add bling to his teeth. Native american dentists had already to deal with pimps 2,500 years ago. Check National Geographic

From there, after six days and seven nights, you arrive at Zobeide, the white city, well exposed to the moon, with streets wound about themselves as in a skein. They tell this tale of its foundation: men of various nations had an identical dream. They saw a woman running at night through an unknown city; she was seen from behind, with long hair, and she was naked. They dreamed of pursuing her. As they twisted and turned, each of them lost her. After the dream, they set out in search of that city; they never found it, but they found one another; they decided to build a city like the one in the dream. In laying out the streets, each followed the course of his pursuit; at the spot where they had lost the fugitive’s trail, they arranged spaces and walls differently from the dream, so she would be unable to escape again.

This was the city of Zobeide, where they settled, waiting for that scene to be repeated one night. None of them, asleep or awake, ever saw the woman again. The city’s streets were streets where they went to work every day, with no link any more to the dreamed chase. Which, for that matter, had long been forgotten.

New men arrived from other lands, having had a dream like theirs, and in the city of Zobeide, they recognized something from the streets of the dream, and they changed the positions of arcades and stairways to resemble more closely the path of the pursued woman and so, at the spot where she had vanished, there would remain no avenue of escape.

The first to arrive could not understand what drew these people to Zobeide, this ugly city, this trap.

- Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities, 1972

With Wallace Shawn, Bob Balaban, and Richard P. Rogers.
Produced by Susan Meiselas, David Grubin, Co-Producer Andrew Fierberg. Original Music by Michael Montes and Robert Humphreville. Written, Edited, Directed by Alexander Olch.

Limited release, but highly recommended.

An excellent guide to adding the New Yorker to your resume.

How to win the New Yorker Caption Contest by Patrick House.