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Demolishing a Building One Story at a Time
Here’s an amazing video of a building being demolished by slowly lowering it to the ground and dismantling it one floor at a time.
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Do Gas Taxes Cover the Costs of Roads?
This article just barely scratches the surface of something I’d like to see a whole lot more about. They discus information released in Texas that reveals that gas taxes are not actually high enough to cover Texas’ expensive road system. I had the hunch that driving was subsidized by general taxes, but hadn’t seen any numbers. I’d love to see more on this.
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David Brooks at the New York Times captures the changing state of intellectualism and taste: “prestige has shifted from the producer of art to the aggregator and the appraiser. Inventors, artists and writers come and go, but buzz is forever.” Nothing remotely groundbreaking, but this tongue-in-cheek article describes exactly what most prominent blogs have become.
August 11th, 2008