If the Jetsons relocated to the Swedish Arctic, they might feel right at home at the new Treehotel, which opened officially a few days ago. The project is a collection of four houses perched among the pine trees in the village of Harads. The husband-and-wife team Britta and Kent Lindvall, along with a few of their architect and designer friends, dreamed up the structures, which range from the outrageous to the opulent.
There’s the aggressively twiggy Nest and the trippy Mirrorcube, a 13-by-13-foot mass wrapped in mirrored glass (tinted with an ultraviolet, invisible-to-humans color that deflects birds), along with the Cabin, which is situated over the slope of a hill overlooking the Lulua River. The view from the deck changes literally with the wind, but don’t worry: urban planning students from the nearby Lulua University can vouch for its safety. The compound also has a tree sauna and a tree breakfast-and-meeting room. Two more houses — the disc-shaped UFO and the self-explanatory Room With a View — are set to open in the fall.
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From a list by Dave Barry
You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe day-light-savings time.
You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests you think she’s pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.
The most powerful force in the universe is gossip.
The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside we ALL believe that we are above-average drivers.
There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age 111.
There is a very fine line between “hobby” and “mental illness.”
People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be “meetings.”
The main accomplishment of almost all organized protests is to annoy people who are not in them.
If there really is a God who created the entire universe with all of its glories, and He decides to deliver a message to humanity, He will NOT use, as His messenger, a person on cable TV with a bad hairstyle.
You should not confuse your career with your life.
A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.
No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.
When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy.
Your friends love you, anyway.
Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and do it.
I don’t know how I feel about this one. I do like cold watermelon, but is my fridge really not enough?
At first glance it looks like a common Ziploc bag, but upon closer inspection you will find that it is actually made from glass. Suddenly a temporary object becomes permanent and reusable—or some sort of hippie crap like that.
The little dongle looks like a tiny red US-style mailbox, and hooks up to a free USB port. Companion software monitors you mail account, your Twitter or your Facebook and lights red or green up to tell you there is an update. You can even have your computer play a little sound at the same time, and the plastic flag on the side will actually raise.
