Rock Paper Lizard (Free subscription) | yesterday
This bird's nest is in a small suburban yard. It escaped notice all summer, hidden by the leaves of this "coral bark" Japanese maple. But with the wind and rain and natural course of the seasons, the leaves dropped, and now one's eye naturally tracks to the pretty bark of the tree, and then to the nest. It's about 7 feet up, and is about 4 inches in diameter. My guess...
Daily Painters International Art Gallery (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Please see my blog for interesting commentary on this painting (especially if you're a watercolorist.)
The Economic Way of Thinking (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Over at the DOL blog, my friend, Bob Lawson, calculates the yield on an empty nest in Detroit, The Pontiac Silverdome. Here's a story on how Beijing's "Bird's Nest" has also become an empty nest.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
INDIANAPOLIS - Larry Bird was not in the house when Bill Belichick decided to go for it on fourth and 2 from his 28. Even though Bird works just a few blocks from Lucas Oil Stadium, he has never been to a game there.
Birds and Beer (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
15th November 2009 The "no birds" bit isn't strictly true, although no interesting birds probably is. A walk around Whitlingham after the strong winds was notable only for a female Goldeneye , the first I've seen there this autumn. The best part of the day was finding a number of Bird's Nest fungi ( Crucibulum laeve ) on twigs near my house. (Well worth looking...
Goa Blog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Come rain, shine or cyclone Phyan, winged visitors keen to get away from the rigours of the cold seem to have chosen inclement weather over the freezing conditions back home. The result: Goa’s lakes, shores and wetlands are teeming with bird life earlier than usual. “This year, birds have arrived earlier than the last few years,” Suresh [...]
I Luv SA (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
... Olympic Games China is struggling to find a real purpose for its 450-million-dollar showpiece Bird's Nest stadium, while one of Germany's 2006 World Cup stadiums in Leipzigalso struggles to attract more than a few thousand fans to third-division games. With six months to go until kick-off in Johannesburg, South Africa is faced with the possibility that some of its new venues will...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
... Olympic Games China is struggling to find a real purpose for its 450-million-dollar showpiece Bird's Nest stadium, while one of Germany's 2006 World Cup stadiums in Leipzigalso struggles to attract more than a few thousand fans to third-division games. With six months to go until kick-off in Johannesburg, South Africa is faced with the possibility that some of its new venues will...
Fast Company (Free subscription) | yesterday
Construction sites are usually just urban eyesores, but Kooho Jung and Hayeon Kelly Choi have designed a space that could one day make people look forward to neighborhood construction. The Symbiotic Green Wall turns the barrier between construction and the street into a living ecosystem, complete with grass pots, birds nests, and pollution monitors. The wall is completely self-sustaining...
Carson's Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
Possibly hundreds of Antarctic icebergs are floating towards New Zealand in a rare event which has prompted a shipping warning, officials said on Monday. The icebergs are smaller remnants of the giant chunks seen off Australia’s Macquarie Island this month, including one estimated at two kilometres (1.2 miles) and another twice the size of Beijing’s “Bird’s [...]
Environment Blog (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
... information on water usage, noise violation, air pollution and foul smell. The plant pods, shade bird nest, sitting areas and lightings on the outside of the Symbiotic Green Wall gives you a perfect green visual treat. The intermediate zone that is basically the water recycling system consists of water purifying system and distribution system. The wall itself acts as a water storage...
Tongue Tied 3 (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
... about deer meat. By mid-morning, a number of folks had commented about their experiences with Bird’s Nest Soup, octopus, cow brains and rattlesnake. Then, while I was in our 10 a.m. news meeting, someone posted in reply a single word, a vulgar expression for a part of a woman’s anatomy. It was there only a minute before a colleague deleted it. A few minutes later, the...
Vintage Lifestyle (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Just to get you in the mood for Christmas I have decided to have a prize draw for one of the Christmas bird nests I showed in the previous post! When you make a purchase from our website between today and the 4th of December, you will automatically be entered in the draw. But, in the spirit of Christmas, you don't have to make a purchase to enter. You can leave a comment letting...
!! omg blog !! (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
... Peaches finally emerged wearing a costume resembling a cross between a woolly mammoth and a bird's nest. She lumbered around in it some more before stripping down to a pink bodysuit-cum-superhero jumper to belt out hits "Serpentine" and "Kick It". A proper initiation. Check out photos of the mayhem after the jump.
