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My desktop (more exactly – Yahoo weather) says the coming week is going to be really nice in Frankfurt – haven’t seen such a nice forecast for quite a time.

If you didn’t like recipes in structure diagram format, you could take a look at Elise Bauer’s whole food Simply Recipes instead. Interesting recipes and very few ingredients that come out of tins or packets – yum!

“Smoke” by Stefan Sous
Stefan Sous, a German artist who specialises in displays of technological artifacts and lighting effects, has a web site which is worth a visit.

Unfortunately, I haven’t figured out how to link to individual pages, so here’s a small taste here. Take a look at his works explosion, berliner luftpost, and his concept fluxus, as well as smoke of course.

Banksy, who no one can accuse of not having a sense of humour (remember this?), has updated Paris Hilton’s debute CD without her permission. The modified version features a topless picture of Paris with a dog’s head and tracks remixed by Banksy. I want one!

Usually, it’s the Economist that writes about possible house-price bubbles. But the New York Times had an interesting article about the same subject a few days ago. Here a couple of quotes:

There seem to be three major paths that housing could follow over the next year: a soft landing, the start of a long slump, or a crash. A soft landing is the one predicted — and preferred — by most economists on Wall Street and at the Fed. A long slump is what many past real estate booms turned into. A crash is the outcome that a small group of analysts say is the only possible ending for the biggest housing boom of all…

...In effect, families seem to be buying houses they cannot afford, in the hope that their incomes or property values will rise significantly. “Prices just shot up too much,” said Robert T. McGee, chief economist at U.S. Trust, an investment firm based in New York. The firm has forecast a soft landing for housing, he said, but “as time goes by that starts to look like wishful thinking.”

(via Get Rich Slowly)