I always knew South Korea was forward thinking.  Now they’ve build an ocean side observatory from recycled shipping containers.

I’ve always thought that it was pointless to get a penthouse apartment in any major Chinese city because you’d be staring at smog the whole time.  This series of photos exemplify the pollution that’s happening in China due to the rapid industrialization and lack of standards/control.

What’s striking about this photo is that the kids aren’t wearing gloves, their hands are just that dirty, all the time.

Cement factory gets abandoned in Barcelona.

Architect buys cement factory.

Beauty ensues.

I’ve blogged about canned bacon before, now here’s another very similar, same shelf-live (10 years!!), machine gun on the can instead of camo version (via gizmodo).

on the interwebs:

fmylife – because other people’s misfortunes bring me happiness

mylifeisaverage – the opposite of fmylife

latfh – because hipsters are funny … looking

awkwardfamilyphotos – we all have them hiding in the drawers

tweetingtoohard -because life just isn’t hard enough

failblog – always a favourite

thisiswhyyourefat – because it is

passiveaggressivenotes – because I’m a carnivore, and I don’t need some wimpy support group

Have $10 million to spare? Here’s a converted church in San Francisco’s Mission district, right by Dolores Park.  Looks pretty fantastic (via boingboing).  See also.

I saw this mansion for sale on the MLS a long time ago (I think for around $2 million). Glad to see that it’s been sold and is being restored. Seems to be a shame that it’s been sitting empty for so long.

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

Paintings of the Presidents’ girl(and boy)friends. Who knew JFK was such a playboy? Oh wait, everyone.