Quoted: Long after today’s S.U.V.’s have become antique collectors’ items, millions of people will still be living in subdivisions built when gas was $1.50 or less ...

Why all the buildings in Vancouver match

Quoted: A direct relationship exists between the block-long base and the twin-tower design: If developers want a second tower, they are compelled to use a block-long footprint to house the required retail, mechanical needs, and lobby for the buildings. In addition, developers can use essentially duplicate designs for each building, thereby saving expenses paying for architects.

Another reason not to go to Places I Don't Like (like the mall, airport, Las Vegas strip...)

Quoted: Riding an escalator is not ordinarily considered risky, but a new study reports that from 1991 to 2005, nearly 40,000 people older than 65 were ...

ooh, here's a good conspiracy theory

Quoted: The $200 billion bail-out for predator banks and Spitzer charges are intimately linked

Is there a rule that headlines have to be incoherent now?

"go unfound"? "sex diseases"

Quoted: Sex Diseases in Many Gay Men Go Unfound, Experts Say

Quoted: Seattle residents would be able to toss meat and dairy scraps into yard-waste containers and quit separating recyclable materials next year under a plan announced ...

Wow, I didn't know there was a Grammy for books.

Quoted: Obama on Sunday won the spoken word Grammy for the audiobook version of his blockbuster tome "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American ...