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from google posted in technology by prof_improbable
Built in the Art Deco style and completed in 1932, this massive structure is the third largest building (in terms of square footage/2.9 million ft²) in Manhattan- just behind 55 Water Street (3.5 million ft²) and the Met Center (3.14 million ft²). It was formally the Port Authority headquarters and Inland Terminal Number One.
Google purchased the building in 2010, and it's currently the de facto headquarters for their east coast operations. The square footage of this single building is larger than the entire sum of all the buildings in the 26-acre Googleplex campus in Mountain View, California.
view full location details...brooks hall (closed)
from computers, internet posted in technology by prof_improbable
Underneath the Civic Center in San Francisco is a windowless bunker of an exhibition hall called Brooks Hall.
Currently closed and used as storage, Brooks Hall was the location of the "Mother of All Demos."
On December 9, 1968, computer warlock Douglas Engelbart gave a demonstration at the Fall Joint Computer Conference at Brooks Hall.
For the first time in one computer system, Engelbart demonstrated almost all the fundamental elements of modern personal computing: multiple windows, hypertext, graphics, the computer mouse (which he helped invent), word processing, and several other systems.
After about 1,000 computer scientists gave Engelbart a standing ovation, the attendees went back to their own work, now more fully aware of the new paradigm of possibilities.
view full location details...terrific beach outlet
from eastbound and down posted in television by prof_improbable
From Season 3 of Eastbound and Down.
Ashley Schaeffer (Will Ferrell) and the Grim Creepers (led by Craig Robinson) confront Kenny Powers and Stevie outside this "nautically themed gift shop" with a 100-ft great white shark edifice.
Other Bob Duato creations can be found here.
view full location details...robben island
from nelson mandela, civil rights posted in history by prof_improbable
Nobel laureate and president of South Africa, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (July 18, 1918-Dec 5, 2013), served 18 years of his 27 years in prison for sabotage against the apartheid government on Robben Island off the coast of South Africa.
21 years in captivity
Shoes too small to fit his feet
His body abused, but his mind is still free
You're so blind that you cannot see-
"Nelson Mandela", The Specials
view full location details...largo at the coronet
from sarah silverman posted in movies by prof_improbable
The Largo at the Coronet is a music and performance venue in Los Angeles. The Largo originally opened in 1989, and moved to this location on June 2, 2008.
Sarah Silverman filmed her 2013 HBO special We are Miracles in the Largo's small room for a crowd of 39 people.
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