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Regensburg. Pustet passage.

Learn from the experts… :  The Best Magazine Articles Ever | Cool Tools … : 

“The following are suggestions for the best magazine articles (in English) ever.”

“This is a work in progress. It is a on-going list of suggestions collectively made by readers of this post. At this point the list has not been vetted or selected by me. In fact, other than the original five items I suggested, all of the articles mentioned here have been recommended by someone other than me. (”

“The Top (…) 5 Articles Based on the number of times an article is recommended

Gay Talese, “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold.” Esquire,April 1966.

Hunter S. Thompson, “The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved.” Scanlan’s Monthly, June 1970.

Neal Stephenson, “Mother Earth, Mother Board: Wiring the Planet.” Wired, December 1996. On laying trans-oceanic fiber optic cable

David Foster Wallace, “Federer As Religious Experience.” The New York Times, Play Magazine, August 20, 2006.

David Foster Wallace, “Consider the Lobster.” Gourmet Magazine, August 2004.“

… Won’t stop the usual Fridays’ training of the river life guard. 🙂

Regensburg is partying. I can hear four bands. Playing at the same time. U2, Buddy Holly, Beatles and some fun punk? Weird. Sounds like cutting edge artsy music.

I still find it hard to believe that I was there last year… 

 

How a town destroyed by fire is trying to make itself fireproof – MIT Technology Review

Around 90% of the homes in Paradise, California, were destroyed. Only an estimated 3,000 people live there today, down from 26,000 before the fire.

 

Note : this is the short side. The gate on the left is where the sub’s should exit. Crazy big sad story.