We may not have any waves and our water may be filled with pharmaceuticals, but it could always be worse. Toxic, even.
So goes Geoff Manaugh on the all-knowing BLDGBLOG  with a post on how the U.S. military (and plenty of other countries, too) dumped tons of chemical weapons into the ocean starting way back in [...]

Preservational-minded Ballardian outlaws illegally restart historic stopped clock in Paris’ iconic Pantheon:
For a year from September 2005, under the nose of the Panthéon’s unsuspecting security officials, a group of intrepid “illegal restorers” set up a secret workshop and lounge in a cavity under the building’s famous dome.