The Flobin Files: Archive

Feb 29th

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#456: Reap What You Sow

[shared via Google Reader from This American Life] Alabama’s new immigration law aims to make life so difficult for illegal immigrants that they will “self-deport.” And in a way it’s working. Immigrants are fleeing Alabama…but not just the undocumented ones. This and other stories of people living with the unintended consequences of their decisions.

Feb 25th

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Feb 25th

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Feb 25th

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Sanya Block 5 / NL Architects

[shared via Google Reader from ArchDaily] Courtesy of NL Architects As part of a resort development, the first prize proposal for Sanya Block 5 by NL Architects consists of 8 blocks of 6 stories on top of a ground floor with restaurants, bars and retail. Located in the Hainan Province and the southernmost city in China, Sanya is well known for its tropical climate and popular tourist...

Feb 25th

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Feb 24th

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Feb 24th

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Map your Twitter friends

[shared via Google Reader from FlowingData] You’d think that this would’ve been done by now, but this simple mashup does exactly what the title says. Just connect your Twitter account and the people you follow popup, with some simple clustering so that people don’t get all smushed together in one location. [Theron17 via Waxy]

Feb 24th

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Here & There: A Horizontal Projection of...

[shared via Google Reader from Magical Urbanism] BERG, a design company based in London, made these horizonless maps of Manhattan. There are two maps, one looking uptown from 3rd and 7th, and the other downtown from 3rd and 35th. Says the designers: Imagine a person standing at a street corner. The projection begins with a three-dimensional representation of the immediate environment. Close...

Feb 24th

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love myself better than you

[shared via Google Reader from mimi smartypants] HUMANITY WAITS FOR INVENTION Are there any dental hygienists in the house? Because I have a question. Are we sure that in The Year Two Thousand And Twelve there is no better way to give someone a tooth-cleaning than with a little pointy scraper? There is no hypersonic ultrathin propulsion thingy that can do the job as well as an Eastern European...

Feb 24th

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Ryue Nishizawa’s Vertical Garden Home

[shared via Google Reader from Magical Urbanism] Spoong&Tamago has this great post on a home on a small lot in Tokyo. The building is gracefully designed to have plentiful outdoor spaces on each floor. Says Domus: Wedged between two tall buildings and invisible from the main road, the narrow Nishizawa building insists on maintaining its confidentiality via an array of plants and flower...

Feb 24th

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How secret can all those agents be?

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Feb 21st

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Feb 16th

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Feb 11th

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Feb 10th

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Feb 10th

a globally synchronised toilet flush →

Feb 10th

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Feb 10th

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Why are there so many pictures of text on tumblr?...

seriously

Feb 9th

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Sfeerimpressie brug Stad van de Zon, ontwerp ipv Delft

Feb 9th

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grab my shrimps

[shared via Google Reader from mimi smartypants] (NOT) LEAVING ON A GREYHOUND BUS I am tired of the loud Brown Line panhandler with the massively long story. He is a fairly young dude with enormous hip-hop clothes and a backpack, and he shows up yelling about how his life is so messed up, he wants to kill himself, his dad is an asshole alcoholic who punched him in the face and kicked him out of...

Feb 9th

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Feb 8th

I love that this tumblr exists

tpdsaa: Submitted by http://twitter.com/marcusjhbrown

Feb 8th

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Hidden Lighting

[shared via Google Reader from Stair Porn .org - Stairs and nothing but] Straight staircase with side lit void and unusual folded steel handrail

Feb 8th

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Feb 8th

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LOST AT SEA

Feb 8th

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That dark dirty city

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Feb 8th

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Faces

[shared via Google Reader from Blackmarket Arts] During my stay in Sheridan Federal Prison, I had the honor of walking through fire with some of the most genuinely amazing men I’ve ever known. This drawing, one of the first I started and the last I finished, is a collection of their faces. It started as a study of three of them and then I’d meet another, and then another. One by one, through my...

Feb 8th

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Feb 8th

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Self-deportation

[shared via Google Reader from kottke.org] The bulk of the Jan 27th episode of This American Life was about Alabama’s tough new immigration laws. Last Summer, Alabama passed HB56, the most sweeping immigration bill in the country. It’s an example of a strategy called “attrition through enforcement” or, more colloquially, “self-deportation” — making life...

Feb 8th