My cousin loves cars. He hasn’t been with the same car for over half year–he’s constantly tuning or selling or buying a new one. This time when he showed me his new car, though, I was actually blown away.

It’s the 1991 Honda Acura NSX. Dubbed a “sensible sports car” and seriously, in life, looks bomb. Like tuned-down version of the Ferrari F40. It’s rear-wheel drive and the engine is in the back, so it hums against your back when you’re in it.

I wish I could’ve taken pictures, but it was at night when we went for a test drive.

So excited for J. Lo’s new album, which is supposed to drop (early?) 2010. She has one of the most beautiful faces in the business. I loved her last single in 2007, “Do It Well,” especially how violent and dominant she was in the music video. Fave bit at 3:02 when she stuffs the bills inside that dude’s mouth…

J.Lo – Hooked On You (2009 demo)

The Eye, London

London at dusk

London Bridge

Z and I in front of Big Ben

Bikes, boats, canals–defining features of Amsterdam.

Copenhagen’s old harbor, Nyhavn

Kongens Nytorv, east end of Strøget in Copenhagen

Royal Danish Theatre, Kongens Nytorv, Copenhagen

Strøget, the longest pedestrian shopping area in Europe (image courtesy Wikipedia)

Frederik’s Church and Amalienborg Palace, winter home of the Danish royal family and thus my favorite princess, Crown Princess Mary of Denmark.

Amalienborg Palace, Copenhagen

Rådhuspladsen, Copenhagen City Square

The well of Stortorget Square, next to the Nobel Museum, Gamla Stan, Stockholm

Old Town, Stockholm

Drottningholm Palace, Stockholm

In 1996, legendary art director Peter Saville moved into a 2,000 sq ft Mayfair lair that he worked with Hacienda designer Ben Kelly to turn into a celebration of 1970s ‘shag pad’ – or garçonniere as Saville prefers – styling. The Apartment, as it was known, soon became a draw for popstars (and long-term Saville fans). Saville had to vacate The Apartment after a few short, happy years but he still keeps most if its contents in shipping containers in West London. Now he teams up with photog Nick Knight to re-create The Apartment for Wallpaper magazine, using models Alana Zimmer and Mariacarla Boscono.

Video Courtesy of Wallpaper Magazine

By MUHAMMAD SAHIMI in Los Angeles | 13 June 2009

[TEHRAN BUREAU] Iran’s Interior Ministry has declared President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the winner of yesterday’s election. This has been rejected by all the three opponents of Mr. Ahmadinejad, Messrs Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mahdi Karroubi, and Mohsen Rezaaee.

The best evidence for the validity of the arguments of the three opponents of the President for rejecting the results declared by the Interior Ministry is the data the Ministry itself has issued. In the chart below, compiled based on the data released by the Ministry and announced by Iran’s national television, a perfect linear relation between the votes received by the President and Mir Hossein Mousavi has been maintained, and the President’s vote is always half of the President’s. The vertical axis (y) shows Mr. Mousavi’s votes, and the horizontal (x) the President’s. R^2 shows the correlation coefficient: the closer it is to 1.0, the more perfect is the fit, and it is 0.9995, as close to 1.0 as possible for any type of data.

Statistically and mathematically, it is impossible to maintain such perfect linear relations between the votes of any two candidates in any election — and at all stages of vote counting. This is particularly true about Iran, a large country with a variety of ethnic groups who usually vote for a candidate who is ethnically one of their own. For example, in the present elections, Mr. Mousavi is an Azeri and speaks Turkish. The Azeries make up 1/4 of all the eligible voters in Iran and in his trips to Azerbaijan province, where most of the Azeri population lives, Mr. Mousavi had been greeted by huge rallies in support of his campaign. Likewise, Mr. Karroubi, the other reformist candidate, is a Lor. But according to the data released by Iran’s Interior Ministry, in both cases, Mr. Ahmadinejad has far outdone both candidates in their own provinces of birth and among their own ethnic populations.

Copyright © 2009 Tehran Bureau

So that leaves a question to be answered–was the Iranian Interior Ministry:
a) too stupid to figure out more convincing fake data (inept at cheating)
b) not care that they would be found out
c) considered the population too stupid to figure it out
d) welcoming a riot