The life of most migrant workers in Qatar is bleak—so bleak, it’s a human rights violation . The latest report from Doha reveals a new twist in the sad story. When they’re not toiling away at building stadiums for the 2022 World Cup, many workers are being paid impossibly small wages to be fake sports fans . It doesn’t sound fun, either. Read more…
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Qatar Pays Migrant Workers $1 an Hour To Be Fake Sports Fans
The idea of branding a place is a fairly new one, and the notion of place-based typefaces is even newer, with national and local governments from Qatar to Chattanooga commissioning their own fonts. The latest country to set its on typeface is Sweden—but it’s also questioning whether a national font is a bit too nationalistic for their progressive Scandinavian sensibilities. Read more…
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Why Sweden Commissioned Its Own Typeface
Qatar, the 2022 host of the World Cup, is not a large country, with a population just over 2.1 million. So to prepare for the millions who’ll descend on the country eight years from now, it’s going to great lengths—including building an entire new city from scratch. Read more…
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Qatar’s $45 Billion Plan to Build a Brand New City for the World Cup
There are plenty of ways to deal with chemical waste: You could ship it across the ocean . Or pump in into Ohio . Or, you could use plasma gasification—a Back to the Future -style process that “recreates the conditions inside a volcano” to incinerate waste. One byproduct of the process? A glassy synthetic obsidian. Read more…
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This Obsidian Mirror Was Once Toxic Chemical Waste
Qatar’s overtly yonic World Cup facility has also been the cause of a staggering number of construction deaths : More than 500 Indian migrant workers have died at the site since January 2012. This week, the stadium’s architect Zaha Hadid said, well, it’s not her problem. Read more…
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Architect Zaha Hadid Says 500 Worker Deaths Are Not Her Problem
No one likes bloatware, especially on a shiny new laptop. If you find wading through the program manager in Windows tedious and annoying, Decrap will volunteer to do the work for you. Read more…
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Decrap Uninstalls All the Bloatware on Your New PC Automatically
If you were Queen Tiye of Egypt’s parents you wouldn’t want to go to the Otherworld just with some bread and beer and wine and jewelry. You would like to eat a good ribeye beef steak, prepared with a mixture of fat, beeswax, and Pistacia resin. Read more…
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This is what a 3,400-year-old steak mummy looks like