Architecture
Abandoned towns in Japan.
A house for only $200K
The new big box store will be smaller and closer
Architecture rendering tips. This could be in 3D
A glass maze at Apple Campus
A: Disney Apartments in Florida
Disney is building housing for its employees.
It's outside of the Disney district.
A: Materials
Straw in modern homes
New insulated glass bricks
A: Tiny Home kits
A tiny home turned into tree house
Lite Pods are another manufactured small house
https://youtu.be/CUaHzLxIh5c?si=SsIOb85uShSkNWth
Walmart sells a kit for $4,310. You can make a basic house for $43,100.
Tiny home cottages for $12,000
_THK: Homeless
Hawaii has homeless housing on windward Oahu. It's tiny homes and they must meet specific rules.
New Orleans has tiny homes for the homeless through a nonprofit
Empty Offices
Offices are emptying. The hybrid work, economy, newer buildings, sub leasing, and newer tech are making these giant buildings into ghost towns. This could be in business, propaganda, and others.
A woman gave up her old office space to use Universal Parks as her base. She went to a quiet area, and used the wifi. An annual pass helped her keep it cheap.
This means the coffee shop office has grown. Since wifi is all you need, you can work anywhere.
I found a list of things for a home office. They don't list a Locked Door! I have kids, I need a way to not be disturbed. Obviously this list is for moms with free time and servants.
This requires new techniques in networking. I don't think anyone really knows how to do that.
Cars
The Pagani Huayra is nearly 900 HP and built for tracks.
Grand Tour does Mauritania
Cars worth waiting for.
New Aston Martin Vantage
Akira Bike for sale
Top Gear will be back eventually says Richard Hammond
New Volvo P1800 Cyan Restomod
Die Casting tech turns car manufacturering from hours to minutes
Books and Comics
An essay on how Aragorn helped Eowyn from her depression. He used kingly power to do it.
DC shows how Batman disappears
John Constantine is now BiSexual. He had sex with death.
The Fables series is now in Public Domain.
DC and Marvel crossover comics being republished.
Space Ghost gets a new comic.
Interview with Neal Stephenson
Ray Bradbury and the loneliness of immortality
The Horus Heresy book series has been completed. It started in the 80’s and just finished 40 years later.
C: Marvel announces
Strange Academy gets a new adventure
Blade’s daughter gets trained by Dracula
Midnight Sons Blood hunt
Books: Hugo's
Emails reveal all
Another article about the leaked emails. Authors were put on a list to not be included.
Neil Gaiman and others were censored from winning
Apology letter about latest Hugo Debacle
A report on censorship and exclusion
Glasgow WorldCon apologies
Books: Lists
Best fantasy books of all time
10 new horror novels
Sci Fi books that will make you smarter
Some good Fantasy series to enjoy.
Fantasy and Sci Fi worth waiting for
Completed fantasy series. Wheel of Time is mentioned.
Fantasy books that are like Lord of the Rings
Fantasy Books being released in February
Books like Howl's Moving Castle. Does not mention the other books that Howl and Sophie are in. I prefer the second Howl book way better.
Studio Ghibli books coming out
Horror books for younger readers
TTRPG
Orcs is an online display for TTRPG players. I could have put it in Videogames, but that's a very large section, and this one needs help. Also, this sounds like fun.
Warpath is a futuristic fighter challenging WH40k
T: WarHammer 40k
3D Printing characters
Lore and props look at the Great Slaughter in WarHammer 40k
3D Printing a Krieg army
TTRPG: D&D
The game turned 50 and has a bunch of releases to celebrate it.
D&D has a new Vecna campaign
Another article about it
Tales of the Valiant is a replacement for D&D
Toys
Aberdeen Scotland has cement Legos hiding around it.
There are WarHammer 40K Legos by independent companies. Sadly, any cool images were made by AI.
Hasbro suffered a $1 Billion loss. The money makers are TTRPG games like D&D and MTG.
T: New Lego Sets
The next Lego set can be a Sushi Restaurant and an Elven Village
More about the new Legos
Food
Chocolate chip cookies
Dolly Parton Brownies
A good fried chicken recipe with soda
https://youtu.be/1t6xv7NTB2g?si=2a0drQN3jWs2dujF
Chemical found in various foods is linked to health problems
Music
Hyper Rock, the new old
The pirates who don't do anything as a metal album
Best Guitar Riffs from the 1970’s
Character assassination by modern writers, how quaint. "There is a broken child playing that game." Fuck off.
Disgraced institution disgraces itself again to remind everyone why they were wrong to forgive it before. What's a little censoring anti-China sentiments for a little payola when you've already censored your political rivals for free?
Those "tiny homes" wouldn't be so bad if they had private bathrooms. Those places are going to look like African slums with shit bags everywhere in no time.
It's an interesting subject for me. A major market right now is lower class homes, but no one is filling them. $30,000-$100,000 with basic designs will win. Tiny homes interconnected would reach that market perfectly, but upper crust people keep using it.