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Historical Futuristic Thursday: Tower For The Dead


Architecture magazine eVolo recently held a competition for skyscraper designs. One of the more interesting entries was a subterranean edifice submitted by Israel López Balan, Elsa Mendoza Andrés, and Moisés Adrián Hernández García. Far from any typical design for an underground structure, the theoretical tower will be a fully functioning large-scale graveyard; a Tower for the Dead

 

Beat The Border Lines, Try a Catapult


Mexican soldiers have seized two catapults that were being used by drug smugglers to fling packages of marijuana across the border with the US into Arizona. A military statement today says an anonymous tip led troops to a house in the border city of Agua Prieta where they found a catapult in the bed of a pickup truck and another inside the house. It says soldiers also seized 1.3 tons of marijuana during Monday’s raid in Agua Prieta, which is across the border from Douglas, Arizona

 

 

 

World’s Worst Commutes


The results of IBM’s “Commuter Pain 2011″ survey, taken by asking people what city they commute in and how much it sucks (click the image to embiggen). Tough break for Mexico City, and will Montreal please stop looking so smug? You’re hurting Beijing and Shenzen’s feelings