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June 26, 2008

Tattoos; Word of the Day in Congress; Astronaut deadline; Dubai's moving skyscraper

Strange and Beautiful Tattoos. Except for a couple that build the navel into the design, most are on the broad canvas of backs.

Related: The Skins They Carried: Military tattoos in the age of Iraq. Texas Observer.

To Ink or Not to Ink: 10 Questions to Consider at TattooFinder.com, a catalog of designs.

On the record: Capitol Words: The most often used word was on any given day in the U.S Congress. Friday's was "oil," Tuesday's was "veterans."

Space, but little time: NASA - Deadline Approaching to Apply for New NASA Astronaut Class

Maya 10k: Can You Live With Just 100 Things?. You gotta be kidding. Count my grapes.

There's hubris in moving parts: Dubai plans 'moving' skyscraper. BBC.

The world's first moving building, a 80-storey tower with revolving floors giving an shifting shape, will be built in Dubai, its architect says.
The Dynamic Tower design is made up of 80 pre-fabricated apartments which will spin independently of one another.

"It's the first building that rotates, moves, and changes shape," said architect David Fisher, who is Italian, at a news conference in New York.

"This building never looks the same, not once in a lifetime," he added...

There's a computer animation of the still-conceptual building at the link.

Train: containers: Take another look at the Singapore train plan, a very intelligent concept -- the train doesn't stop, the people go up to a car atop the train that will slide to a stop at their station. The car detaches and coasts to its berth on its own level as the train continues on below.

If you snooze, they really can't wait for you to get up top to your container. (It's container shipping at root.)

I blogged this briefly Monday, but the idea grows on me.

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