Thorbjörn Holmlund kicks ass. He is working on a truly amazing project that cannot possibly be overlooked for its contribution to human civilization. Echoing Chares of Lindos, the Greek sculptor charged with constructing the colossus on the island of Rhodes, Holmlund’s legacy will be a modern day Great Wonder: a colossal moose.
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Just returned to Beijing after a little mini-visit to Chongqing and Shanghai. The trip was good; Chongqing is probably the #1 up-and-coming city in China, and Shanghai, it turns out, is much better when you have friends there. (Go figure.)
This being my second visit to Shanghai, I wasn’t as concerned with traipsing around […]

Truer words have never been spoken.
This BBC article quotes Time Asia, reporting about a unique new tourist attraction in India. Apparently run (and started?) by one man (Peter Dorje), this “sport” entails going up on a mountain with a bunch of yaks, attaching yourself to a rope and a pulley mechanism, shaking a bucket […]