If you’re interested in the biggest party in Mexico, if not the western hemisphere, go to “Aguascalientes”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes (city, state) for the Fair of San Marcos.
Before you go, be sure to rest up because there’s almost too much to do: bullfighting, cock fighting, casino, concerts, and 10+ two-story warehouse-sized bars packed with beer, booze, and babes. Starting in mid-April and lasting three to four weeks, this party is the largest attraction Latin America. In a hard to believe four day feat, all of the bars, restaurants, and numerous stages are assembled in extravagant temporary structures – complete with marble walls, fountains, elaborate signs, and sculptures. An average night, weekend or otherwise, has more than 35,000 partiers that don’t quit until 5-7 am. For more touristy information on how to get there, where to stay, and what more to expect, visit “here”:http://www.mexperience.com/guide/colonial/aguascalientes.htm.
The picture is from the official site, “feriadesanmarcos.com”:http://www.feriadesanmarcos.com/. Since the webpage contains only pictures with links, even a good “website translator”:http://translate.google.com/translate_t is ineffective.
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Virgin Earth Challenge
http://duenos.net/article/123/ a couple of days ago about the X Prize for auto efficiency, I bring you the Virgin Earth Challenge. Launched in February, 2007 Challenge prize of $25m will go to ??"whoever can demonstrate to the judges' satisfaction a commercially viable design which results in the removal of anthropogenic, atmospheric greenhouse gases so as to contribute materially to the stability of Earth’s climate."??
Just like the X Prize, I hope this will provide the necessary impetus to get innovators and entrepreneurs to take the task of dealing with global warming seriously. For more about the competition, check out "the website":http://www.virginearth.com/.
X Prize for auto efficiency
The “X Prize Foundation”:http://xprize.org has announced a new competition to achieve automotive efficiency. Arguing that competition breeds success and citing Lindbergh’s prize-winning trans-Atlantic flight, the X Prize foundation shocked the world with the original “Ansari X Prize for space flight”:http://www.xprize.org/xprizes/ansari_x_prize.html by making space tourism a reality. Now it seems the group’s target is more terrestrial with the multi-million dollar prize going to the first group that can make a car that, among many other things, gets 100 miles per gallon. Read the full list of “guidelines”:http://auto.xprize.org/xprize/guidelines.html if you’re interested.
Originally found through “this article”:http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/006420.html at “World Changing”:http://www.worldchanging.com
Patagonia sells their scraps
Outdoor company “Patagonia”:http://www.patagonia.com has always been good at being environmentally responsible, so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised by this. The DIY shoe is really just a $30 bag of scraps with instructions on how to turn them into something that sort of looks like a shoe.
You can buy the DIY shoe at the “Patagonia site”:http://www.patagonia.com/web/us/product/collection_alt.jsp?OPTION=FOOTWEAR_COLLECTION&catcode=SHOES_SP07_US.SHOES.MENS.CASUAL#yc or you could pay a lot more for the pre-built Nike version, “Considered”:http://www.treehugger.com/files/2005/03/nike_considered.php
Originally found at the “Gear Addicts blog”:http://www.sacaddicts.net/
Homemade Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
42 year-old Constable Nick Pointing might just be the perfect husband. His wife Carolyn has absolutely loved the story of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang for years and now thanks to four years of hard work and a lot of skill, she has one of her own. Nick and Carolyn built this road-legal (although not flight-worthy) replica of the famous flying car out of an old Land Rover.
Photo credit and original story at the “Daily Mail”:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=446637&in_page_id=1766&ito=1490
Yet another step closer to Big Brother reality
In a move that only someone completely devoid of a sense of irony could think of, Home Secretary John Reid has ordered that some of Britain’s 4 million (count ’em) CCTV cameras also be equipped with the power of speech. Sound like 1984? Check out this picture that’s been floating around the blogosphere of all the cameras around George Orwell’s former residence. Also, there is no way that anyone could write this story up better than “these guys”:http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38718 at “The Inquirer,”:http://www.theinquirer.net check it out.
IKEA to move beyond decorating homes, builds them
It wasn’t long ago that do-it-yourself Swedish furniture maker IKEA didn’t dominate the world of yuppy interior design. Okay, that’s not true, IKEA has had that market cornered for a long time but it was only recently that they moved into home manufacture itself. BoKlok Homes (a partnership between IKEA and Swedish construction firm Skanska) have been building homes in Sweden for a little over ten years and are now moving to the UK. A BoKlok (Swedish for smart living) development in Gateshead has already been approved and their British partners, Smart @ Home are very optimistic about becoming “a major provider of housing in Britain.” Pictured here is the original architect’s mock-up used to get planning permission for the development.
These houses actually seem pretty cool, they are all prefabricated pieces that can be assembled in a day cutting down in a big way on the waste associated with on-site construction. In addition to being less polluting on-site, BoKlok houses are also made of sustainable and durable materials. Perhaps most importantly, these houses are going to be filling a sorely-missed niche in the British housing market as property prices all over the country have soared astronomically in the past decade leaving most low-income families with very few options.
Here is a link to a “Guardian article”:http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/architecture/story/0,,2048116,00.html about BoKlok. Photo credit to “e-architect.co.uk”:http://www.e-architect.co.uk/newcastle/ikea_housing.htm
A Custom Network for Everyone
 take 5% of the revenue. In addition to the prospect of revenue sharing, Sonopia would appeal to potential clients by providing the opportunity to sell custom handsets and yet another way for non-profit groups to contact donors.
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http://www.sonopia.com/mvc/network/main.html?html=/mvc/network/start.html . A "Business Week":http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2007/tc20070402_894285.htm?campaign_id=rss_daily article on the company.
Go South Young Man
Global warming isn’t happening quite fast enough for sun-seeking Americans who have been moving to sunny Southern California and Florida at such rates that the property prices haven’t had time to catch up. “Business Week”:http://businessweek.com recently put out a special report about the 274 most appreciative zip codes in America. Quite why they’re appreciative is unclear, and there’s certainly no real understanding as to why they chose 274, but in an equally random number choice, here are the top 11 and here is a “link to the report.”:http://www.businessweek.com/investing/special_reports/20070302luxuryreal.htm Time Out magazine started in 1968 as a simple fold out poster for all the entertainment listings in London. Now they publish three weekly periodicals (London, Chicago, and New York) dozens of city guides, and an annual compendium of every single film review ever written by Time Out reviewers. That’s over 17,000 films reviewed. Starting this year, that entire database of film reviews is available online for free at “timeout.com/film.”:http://www.timeout.com/film/ Reviews from Time Out tend to be witty, shrewd and very sarcastic. In a word, British.
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Time Out Film Guide
Style aside, the online film guide acts much the same as “IMDB”:http://imdb.com/ (allowing cross searching actors, directors, genres) but all with a sleek, professional sheen to it. Also if you like the review, you can buy or rent the DVDs right on the screen.
http://elliott-herder.com/plugins/ you can just go to the search engine selector in the top-right, go to the bottom and select "add Time Out Film." Happy searching.