bitful

1. Venice is to have a fourth bridge across the Grand Canal. Parts of it are being installed this weekend, and it will be completed by the end of the year. It was designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. View my pictures of Santiago Calatrava's Olympic Agora in Athens.
2. Madison Avenue symbolises the advertising industry. I had never heard about it but, as it often happens, after encountering the first reference to it in Mad Men, I then kept finding it mentioned twice more during the week (once, for instance, in third paragraph from the bottom up in this Copyblogger article on the dangers of humour).
3. You cannot browse the US version of the Abercrombie & Fitch website from the UK. If you enter any of its URLs from a UK IP address, you are redirected to the British version. Which incidentally is absolutely identical, only with the dollar replaced with a pound sign wherever it appears, so stuff costs twice as much here. A rough and dirty workaround is clicking on cached results of a Google sitewide search: jeans for 79.50 dollars in the US? And then the same Jeans for 80 pounds in the UK. Outrageous.
4. This is perhaps old news for most of you, but I just found out that Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip has been cancelled. Which for me is fantastic news, as I had liked the first three episodes but I stopped watching because I did not have time to follow yet another series for goodness knows how many seasons. Turns out it's just one, so I'll watch.
5. You can quickly and easily decorate an Italian stove-top coffee maker by grabbing it when it's hot with a microfibre dishcloth. The material clings and melts instantly, leaving a lovely glazed grid pattern all over. So it's instant coffee for me from now on then.
6. Plastic does not biodegrade, unless it is incinerated. This means that every plastic bag you have used in your life will exist somewhere, perhaps in tiny polluting particles, long after you are dead.
7. Smintair is the World's first airline re-allowing their guests to smoke. SmIntAir: Smoker's [sic] International Airways.

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