There is actually stuff to do there! When Downtown Los Angeles isn’t occupied with its primary task as a massive homeless shelter, there’s an art walk every second Thursday of the month. More art than you can shake a stick at, and this month Calarts is playing free sci-fi movies at the top of the Westin Bonaventure Hotel: Powers of Ten (check out a similar online exploration of the micro and macro universe) and Solaris.
Via midnight ridazz. Join us!
Unnecessary Knowledge will feed you useless fun facts. Keep hitting refresh to make the awesomeness continue. “You lose 60 hairs a day.” “More than $1 billion is spent each year on neck ties in the United States.” And on and on. This one is the most tragic: “Every year approximately 2,500 left-handed people are killed by using object or machinery designed for right-handed people.”
We had a monster quake today. I was lucky to escape with my life.
Ok, not really. The building shook enough to make me jump under my desk for about 30 seconds out of fear of getting hit in the head by this stuff. A little excitement but nothing terrible.
And hey, there’s a little movie about it courtesy of CalTech.
Youtube user heckleu247’s channel
(This is good too)
There’s a ridiculously nice Mandarin phrasebook for iPhone . I just downloaded it and immediately wished for a time machine to send it back to last year when I was in Beijing. Get it while it’s hot, apparently.
In case you ever start to feel safe riding your bicycle in LA, I present the case of Dr. Christopher Thompson, an ER doctor who apparently tried to murder a cyclist in a fit of road rage [more]. (warning, that first link is kinda gruesome)
Yes, that’s right, an ER doctor decided to turn his vehicle into a weapon which he used to attack some innocent people on bicycles. LA is kinda fucked up.
Update: but not as fucked up as Manitoba!
Looks like somebody didn’t waste any time having fun with the javascript webdev hack that was posted yesterday: zombie outbreak, via twitter.
We started out around 600 strong, but things got a little hairy around The People’s Republic of Santa Monica. I mean that literally, the police showed up with dogs and started cracking down. We scattered and everyone met up in Venice Beach, where we had a dance party.
