Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Calculated Risk, Department of Transportation, Driving, Marginal Revolution, Mileage
According to the Department of Transportation, Americans drove 11 billion fewer miles this March than in March 07.
Filed under: Blog, Nicholas B. Jackson | Tags: Domino's Pizza, Kottke, Lonely Sandwich, Noid, TIME
Anybody who even cares enough to read this blog probably reads Kottke.org already. But, I still find it necessary to re-post some of his stories every once in a while. This is one of those times.
In commercials for Domino’s Pizza, the chain’s employees wage a never ending battle against the Noid, a gremlin who delays deliveries and carries a gun that can turn a pizza ice cold. Many viewers are amused by the Noid, Domino’s says, but one of them took the advertising campaign personally. Last week Kenneth Noid, 22, walked into a Domino’s Pizza shop in Chamblee, Ga., with a .357 Magnum revolver and took two employees hostage. When police arrived, he demanded $100,000 in cash, a getaway car and a copy of The Widow’s Son, a 1985 novel about secret societies in an 18th century Parisian prison.
All Noid got was the pizza he ordered. After a five-hour siege, the two employees slipped away and Noid gave himself up. According to police, Noid has “psychological problems” and believes that he has an “ongoing dispute with Tom Monaghan,” the head of the Detroit-based Domino’s chain.
Time Magazine, you’re making that shit up. (via lonelysandwich)
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Filed under: Blog, Nicholas B. Jackson | Tags: Associated Press, eBay, Richard Lacayo, Stonehenge, TIME
I’m going to start using this term: stonehenged. It stands for purposeful damage inflicted on a significant object. Ugh, our petty arguments were no reason for her to go ahead and stonehenge my car. Argh! He tried to mug me so I stonehenged his face.
According to the AP, two guys took a hammer and chisel to the Heel Stone of the ancient monument yesterday, breaking off a coin-sized chunk of rock before security guards chased them away. From TIME’s Richard Lacayo: “If it turns up on eBay, don’t bid on it unless you plan to send it back where it belongs.”
Filed under: Architecture, Blog, Nicholas B. Jackson | Tags: Architecture, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Peter Eisenman, RISA
Renowned American architect Peter Eisenman used the latest RISA convention to outline his newest controversy-in-the-making: a six-point plan that denounces the “state of passivity” we live in. This has to be a joke. Instead of doing some reading for class that I’m behind on, I’m putting together a piece on this for Britannica.
