Daily view, 10/26

Some things I saw online today that I've noted for possible future use/reference/heckling:

• Houses to be shaped like orchids and tents... in the Cotswolds, for chrissake: Landmark Architechture


• Sites devoted to cheap/free drinks in NY (this is more wishful thinking on my part... how nice it would be to occasionally leave the house and get something as ridiculous as a "$10 Martini & Manicure"... so far from my reality that it's not even funny): drinkdeal.com and myopenbar.com


• Disturbing news blurb (New York Times): "Increasingly, manufacturers are looking at the automobile as an extension of the home, a place to work and entertain."


• Fucked up products: Numbered sugar cubes from Droog Design, the iBelieve (turns your iPod shuffle into a crucifix), the Fanny Pack Stealth Audio Recorder, the Italian Wrist PC, mp3 playing toothbrushes and toilets


• Favorite Gothamist item of the day: Hasidic Hellraisers (or Mazel-TOUGHS). Sorry that the Jews are rumbling, of course, but the story features a guy I went to high school with, Aaron Teitelbaum (ok, I'm 99.9% sure that it isn't the same guy, but there is always that misguided sense of connection when people have the same name).


• "Vikings are just Swedish Pirates"


• More Tokyo bizareness from Satan's Laundromat.


• Overheard in New York gem: "Yo' shit is so deep you gotta be a scuba diver to understand it!" —credited to a Hobo in Washington Square Park (Who says "Hobo" anymore? How very Utah Phillips).