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Welcome To Yodaville: The Fake City In The Arizona Desert
BLDGBLOG on a town built by Air Force for the purpose of being bombed into oblivion, over and over: Yodaville is a fake city in the Arizona desert used for bombing runs by the U.S. Air Force. Writing...
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Faulty iPhone Maps Could Kill You, Australian Authorities Warn
Is our reliance on GPS and mobile devices maps making us increasingly disoriented and oblivious? To me, the relevant aspect of this story is not that Apple’s map app is flawed, but that numerous people...
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The Paradox of Fairness
Jenny Diski writes for the New Statesman: Desert, the noun deriving from the verb “to deserve”, appears to be an essential human dynamic. It is at least a central anxiety that provides the plot for so...
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The Architectural-Utopia Desert Commune Of Arcosanti
Visionary architect Paolo Soleri died in April at 93. His landmark work is the domed utopian village Arcosanti in Arizona, a communal, hippie-futurist “human laboratory” created in 1970, where hundreds...
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Salvation Mountain Creator Leonard Knight Dies At 82
The Los Angeles Times reports the death of an eccentric visionary who assembled his own psychedelic-religious portal to another dimension out in the desert of California: Leonard Knight, the lean New...
View ArticleOn a Business Trip with the Desert Spirits
Via Gods & Radicals: “I will not Reason and Compare: my business is to Create.” – William Blake Reason is a tool. There are things you can do with it and things... The post On a Business Trip with...
View ArticleJesus spent 40 days in the Desert. I only spent 21, but here’s what began to...
No phone, computer, radio, TV, just a handful of books and a quest to reach deep down within myself, to find myself, God and Nature .. The post Jesus spent 40 days in the Desert. I only spent 21, but...
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