This.

And more here.

I know exactly what to use this for. And funny that the guy's name is Martin.

Thanks to ScottC for the headsup.

Porphyre, our Lady of Perpetual Dreampepper, has co-founded a new LiveJournal place to go and gawk at the future. Futurotica they call it, and I've Bloglined it. Go and taste it. Chew it. It's delicious.

The variable city. Packed to the gills then empty.

In Spain one can find a linear city all along the coast built for tourism, a section of land that becomes the most crowded region in Europe, but just for a short time. It’s a city for only three months in summer, when thousands of people come looking for the sea and the sun. The rest of the year it becomes a ghost city, a city without any a function, with no people and no services.

Found via We Make Money Not Art.

Excellent article on procrastination. I feel better, anyway.

Wow. Here's the MetaFilter post with links to his work. That is some creepy, haunting shit. I mean, look at this. That's the kind of stuff to give me nightmares. The cool nightmares where I have a steno pad and take notes.

More goodness for an unannounced project that I have on tap. Just putting it here so I'll remember to find it later.

Found via Gridskipper.

WWII Army Sea Forts. On stilts.

Found via Boing Boing.

And somebody's already caught it and asked WTF is up with this to which I must reply: patience. Patience.