I think I’m in love (via apartmenttherapy).

It’s anime convention time – Sakura Con 2009.  I don’t know much about anime, but a lot of people spent a lot of time getting dressed up for it:

more here.

This is a long article about dubai, but interesting (via boingboing).

Once the manic burst of building has stopped and the whirlwind has slowed, the secrets of Dubai are slowly seeping out. This is a city built from nothing in just a few wild decades on credit and ecocide, suppression and slavery. Dubai is a living metal metaphor for the neo-liberal globalised world that may be crashing – at last – into history.

Reminds me of this video on real estate in Dubai.

I love it that the flowers are blooming right about now.

The first one is taken right outside my building, the second one is from the Quad at the UW campus.

I have to admit, I didn’t really know anything about Kurt Cobain when he actually died, but his lyrics, and his songs, and his untimely death touched a lot of people, to this day.  So much so that people still come to this bench outside his (old) home in Seattle, and leave flowers every year.

They’re a little expensive, but the concept of these lights are very cool.  Maybe this will be a DIY project.