I know I’m a little late, but this song is AWESOME!

You MUST click here to listen to Sad Sad City by Ghostland Observatory

Give it a chance, it’s really unique and let it marinate in the background as you enjoy your daily dose of JBU. Or you can imagine Mitza and I dancing to this and Porter.

Since the CEC is hoping to persuade our university to reduce emissions annually (and UT has been participating in the STARS pilot program from the mentioned organization AASHE).

Higher education has emerged as a thrilling proving ground for a sustainable society. Schools of all statures and sizes—from the Ivies to red-state community colleges—are making the most of their fiefdoms, leveraging their educated and politically engaged populations, long-term outlooks, and self-managed (the often signifi­cant) physical footprints to make substantial changes. But with those changes comes a surprising reversal in academe’s typical stance: the mechanics of the campus are occupying the brightest spotlight. Students, administrators, and faculty are obsessing over the cleaning products the janitors use, how dining-hall potatoes are grown, and which dorms consume the least energy. Infrastructure is hot—hotter arguably than research or teaching about sustainability. It is as if the ivory tower has looked out to the world and seen a choking planet, and its first response is to look inward again at its own activities—building designs, power plants, and transportation systems.

from Metropolis Magazine

Let’s just say Jack Bauer would have had a very different day 10 years ago.

I don’t know if this counts as design exactly, but one of tonight’s Jeopardy answers was about a company that produces collectible Spanish porcelain, and the question is, What is Lladro?

So of course I looked it up, and I realized that I’ve seen these before! And what’s more, they’re amazing.

Are these not exquisite?

Apparently the company was founded by brothers who built (or grew up in?) a house just outside Valencia, which is also where the museum and factory is. Another thing to go back to Valencia for!

(More pictures after the jump.)

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Eat Drink Man Woman is a GREAT movie!!

Very Asian, very cute, very real, very unexpected endings.

I should keep it in mind for The Good Daughters revision… Aiya, that stupid revision is going to kill me.