i'm not reading a novel at the moment, just shitloads of books related to architecture, machinery and graffiti. it's a fucking blast.

'mural art: large scale art from walls around the world' is one of the best books i ever got my hands on. the photos in it are ridiculously awesome and it's the kind of book anyone and everyone will be impressed by. seriously. did i tell you it's fucking awesome yet?

'spacecraft: fleeting architecture and hideouts' is a book i've had for over a year now and i've just returned to it for the umpteenth time. even if you don't appreciate architecture you'll love this book. it's got a house in it where the furniture slides into the wallspace, a treehouse on top of a skyscraper, an incredible structure in thailand called 'hybrid muscle' which the locals attach buffalo to in order to generate electricity. if i could marry a book it'd be this one.

'over: the american landscape at the tipping point' is a photographic wankfest. this alex maclean fella got in a small plane and took hundreds of aerial photos of the american landscape where nature and humans have collided. it's a treat.

Why did they stop the clip there? The funniest part was RIGHT after the clip ended!

from snpp:

The next day's lunch is a special Oktoberfest celebration. Lunch lady
Doris is dressed for the occasion with buns in her hair.

Doris: OK, I got your German grub right here.
[serves Bart, who eats, and walks away]
Lisa: Bart, does it strike you as odd that Uter disappeared and
suddenly they're serving us this mysterious food called
"Uterbraten"?
Skinner: [walking up in leiderhosen] Oh, relax, kids, I've got a _gut_
feeling Uter is around here somewhere. [chuckles] After all,
isn't there a little _Uter_ in all of us? [chuckles] In fact,
you might even say we just _ate_ Uter and he's in our
_stomachs_ right now! [laughs] Wait...scratch that one.
-- A little too literal, "Treehouse of Horror V"

>> ^ant:
What episode is this from?

It's from the upcoming "Treehouse of Horror".

>> ^thebug44:
I've always wondered this...why the hell is his name Yahtzee!?


I'd guess it was from his first series of adventure games starring his signature character Arthur Yahtzee.

Here's his profile from his Fully Ramblomatic site:

REAL NAME: Ben Croshaw
POSITION: Editor/Webmaster/Staff writer
ALIGNMENT: Neutral Evil
SHOE SIZE: 12 and a half

Yahtzee was born in Warwickshire, England, on the day of the great storm of 1983. Twenty years later, when England had become too small to accommodate the five hundred kilometre-wide tumour growing out of the back of his neck, he moved to Brisbane, Australia, where a chance encounter with an enraged surfer caused the tumour to become detached. It has now gone on to star in a number of Japanese fetish videos, while Yahtzee occupies a treehouse on the edge of the city, struggling to learn how to live with corks around his hat. The enraged surfer tries to keep in touch, but Yahtzee never answers his phone.

I like the way your tree minded mind thinks! thanks for the links!

In reply to this comment by Linz:
Or maybe something more like this?
http://www.inhabitat.com/2006/08/31/4treehouse-by-lukasz-kos/#more-1079
I like the idea of having it above the ground, maybe suspended. Also a bunch of other cool ideas here:
http://www.inhabitat.com/category/treehouses/

In reply to this comment by Peroxide:
I dream of building my own tree based house, sort of like this one, but perhaps with a center beam that is a living tree, ( i know, i know, the roots would need water...)

http://www.simondale.net/house/

Everything makes perfect sense, except for the building codes that prevent anyone from making their own house.

try this out, it's from the same album (high/low). One of my favorites.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Nada-Surf-Treehouse

In reply to this comment by teamoney80mg:
i love the classroom rant..."TELL HIM YOU LIKED THE ARTICLE IN THE NEWSPAPER ER ER ER" (enters chorus), never listened to any other stuff Nada Surf put out any good?

Or maybe something more like this?
http://www.inhabitat.com/2006/08/31/4treehouse-by-lukasz-kos/#more-1079
I like the idea of having it above the ground, maybe suspended. Also a bunch of other cool ideas here:
http://www.inhabitat.com/category/treehouses/

In reply to this comment by Peroxide:
I dream of building my own tree based house, sort of like this one, but perhaps with a center beam that is a living tree, ( i know, i know, the roots would need water...)

http://www.simondale.net/house/

Everything makes perfect sense, except for the building codes that prevent anyone from making their own house.

I found some more pics of different types of tree-based homes here:
http://www.inhabitat.com/category/treehouses/

what's the treehouse one I don't remember it, and can't find it into the archive...

I love xkcd. Especially the "Treehouse" one.

The alien is James Earl Jones. The reason why he doesn't appear in the later Treehouses of Horror is because Jones was too busy.

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I was hoping to find a video of the steampunk treehouse to show what happens when steampunk people are less focused on computers, but no such luck...

Here are the stills, though: http://www.steamtreehouse.com/page28/page28.html

Looris,

First off, that initial 'discussion' dissolved into a fight and there was very little constructive dialogue taking place... rickegee's points were made during that first round and obviously, you also were not listening to what was being said or else you would have discarded it then.

I think you also need to work on your listening skills before blaming everyone else for not listening to you, it's a two way street, and I've noticed in past issues regarding posts you've made that you seem to fan the flames of an argument before even being willing to entertain the idea that you are wrong... whether or not this is intentional on you part I cannot say, but regardless, it is not constructive and I think you should work to grow out of this.

I get that you wanted this to be saved because it was of higher quality... I heard this argument, so did many others, but it just didn't stand up... I mean, c'mon, it's just a silly little clip of a guy getting injured, in my opinnion I don't really think that much more 'quality' is really necessary... or warrants setting any kind of precendents.

Secondly, I don't think you can argue that it is wrong to delete the post on it's second time in through discussion. Not everyone was present for that first 'discussion'. Such is the nature of the internet, we can't all be around 24/7 to deal with disputes... lucky obviously wasn't around the first time, and neither was I, we both obvously felt that this was something that slipped by and needed to be corrected.

Also, just because somebody returned it to the sift does not mean you get some kind of stamp of approval that the post is now inviolate. It doesn't work that way, people can still take issue with it. So take a couple of deep breaths, think about what I've said and move on.

In reply to your comment:
“thanks, THIS does make sense.

first of all, please not i really couldn't care less about the votes. i told it MANY times already: i care about the quality. i told in my first post i'd have discarded mine if the other post was edited to embed that one i posted.

what really upset me now, was the fact that is was already been discussed, and then somebody passes by and discard it. this doesn't make sense. what's the point in discussing anything if when you are not watching somebody else ignores whatever has been done until now and disrupts it all?

that's the point.

there should be some policy about this kind of thing, if users don't have enough sense to figure it out.

(i'll copy+paste this in the post, too)

In reply to your comment:
“looris, just so you know, I reblogged that sift because I felt it had not been resolved... the arguments for or again' it seemed to dissolve into circular fighting... and, most importantly, I agreed with what rickegee had said:

" My nightmare is having Bart's funny line from Simpsons Treehouse of Horror 33, the whole episode of Treehouse of Horror 33, Bart's and Lisa's funny lines from Treehouse of Horror 33 which includes Bart's funny line from original post one, and bart + homer + lisa plus maggie's funny face which includes content from all of the previous posts but in Brightcove which is prettier . . ."

By allowing that sift to continue hanging about I felt a dangerous precendent was being set and frankly, four seconds or so of some guy injuring himself was not worth opening that door for. I'm sorry if you're upset but there are rules here that need to be upheld. I'm sure you'll make up for the lost votes in no time.”