<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : building : ATOM 0.3</title><link>http://www.plime.com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><entry><title><![CDATA[Building collapses suddenly in Brooklyn]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/124917/1/" /><id>124917</id><summary><![CDATA[Building collapses suddenly in Brooklyn]]></summary><issued>2009-06-21T15:51:11+01:00</issued><modified>2009-06-21T15:51:11+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The four-story building that houses the bar and restaurant Vesper suddenly collapsed shortly before 2 p.m. <br/>The Fire Department says that so far it appears that there were only three minor injuries, two of which did not even require medical attention. &#8220;But we&#8217;re still doing searches on the exterior,&#8221; a fire spokesman said. The vesper was closed at the time.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Is the Empire State Building zapping cars?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/48913/1/" /><id>48913</id><summary><![CDATA[Is the Empire State Building zapping cars?]]></summary><issued>2008-01-30T12:52:02+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-30T12:52:02+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[In the shadow of the Empire State Building lies an &#8220;automotive Bermuda Triangle&#8221; - a five-block radius where vehicles mysteriously die.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Building Manager Targets Urinator ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/132064/1/" /><id>132064</id><summary><![CDATA[Building Manager Targets Urinator ]]></summary><issued>2009-08-31T08:05:08+01:00</issued><modified>2009-08-31T08:05:08+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[So, this guys been peeing in the hallway of his building and the manager tackles the problem with humour and humiliation<br/><br/>Brilliant!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Woman strips outside Fla. capitol building]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/29908/1/" /><id>29908</id><summary><![CDATA[Woman strips outside Fla. capitol building]]></summary><issued>2007-08-02T07:20:32+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-02T07:20:32+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A Florida woman who decided to strip to the buff in front of the Old State Capitol building was charged with indecent exposure.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Spinning Building]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/23698/1/" /><id>23698</id><summary><![CDATA[Spinning Building]]></summary><issued>2007-06-13T14:22:45+01:00</issued><modified>2007-06-13T14:22:45+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[An old building was turned into a masterpiece, by cutting out its windows in large shapes so you can see entire enterior from the street. The freakiest fact about this building is that those large shapes are constantly spinning around!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[13-story Building Topples]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/126083/1/" /><id>126083</id><summary><![CDATA[13-story Building Topples]]></summary><issued>2009-06-28T19:13:47+01:00</issued><modified>2009-06-28T19:13:47+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[You don&#8217;t want to be around when a high-rise apartment building falls over! The unfinished 13-story building in Shanghai toppled Saturday morning and killed a 28-year-old worker.<br/><br/>It didn't collapse, it <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://cache.daqi.com/view/2617990.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">FELL OVER!</a>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Daredevil sues Empire State Building owner]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/47431/1/" /><id>47431</id><summary><![CDATA[Daredevil sues Empire State Building owner]]></summary><issued>2008-01-16T06:19:41+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-16T06:19:41+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A daring parachute jumper sued the owners of the Empire State Building Tuesday because security guards prevented his leap from the New York structure in 2006.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Revealed: Plans to build the world's tallest building at 1km high ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/78730/1/" /><id>78730</id><summary><![CDATA[Revealed: Plans to build the world's tallest building at 1km high ]]></summary><issued>2008-10-05T21:16:25+01:00</issued><modified>2008-10-05T21:16:25+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Plans to construct what could become the world's tallest building, at more than 1km high, were unveiled today.<br/><br/>The Nakheel Tower will have around 150 lifts and be built with some 500,000m3 of concrete.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Empire State Building To Go &quot;Green&quot;]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/105055/1/" /><id>105055</id><summary><![CDATA[Empire State Building To Go &quot;Green&quot;]]></summary><issued>2009-04-06T15:35:34+01:00</issued><modified>2009-04-06T15:35:34+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The Empire State Building has been a lot of colors throughout the years, but it may become <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/science/earth/07empire.html?hp" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">permanently green.</a>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Hair As a Building Material]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/132941/1/" /><id>132941</id><summary><![CDATA[Hair As a Building Material]]></summary><issued>2009-09-13T22:01:07+01:00</issued><modified>2009-09-13T22:01:07+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Paula Sunshine of Lawshall, Suffolk, UK, built an extension onto her 16th Century thatched house with hair. Cattle hair has been used as a traditional building material, but Sunshine is using primarily human and dog hair]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[World's Highest Escalator]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/33230/1/" /><id>33230</id><summary><![CDATA[World's Highest Escalator]]></summary><issued>2007-08-26T22:07:50+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-26T22:07:50+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The Umeda Sky Building is the seventh-tallest building in Osaka City, Japan. It consists of two 40-story towers that connect at their two uppermost stories, with bridges and an escalator crossing the wide atrium-like space in the center.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Plans for the World&#8217;s Tallest Wooden Building]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/131792/1/" /><id>131792</id><summary><![CDATA[Plans for the World&#8217;s Tallest Wooden Building]]></summary><issued>2009-08-27T16:21:35+01:00</issued><modified>2009-08-27T16:21:35+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Norway plans to construct a wooden building 16-17 stories tall with carbon neutral construction techniques. It will house a library, a theatre, and art studios in its approximately 10,000 square meter interior space and will highlight sustainable development.<br/><br/>The idea is to construct a building which will be CO2-neutral, where the concept of the cycles of nature will be preserved.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Who needs Mt Everest when you have the NY Times Building]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/sports/l/64495/1/" /><id>64495</id><summary><![CDATA[Who needs Mt Everest when you have the NY Times Building]]></summary><issued>2008-06-05T18:18:38+01:00</issued><modified>2008-06-05T18:18:38+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[An infamous French daredevil known for his Spidey-like stunts climbed the New York Times building today - drawing hundreds of lunchtime gawkers to the busy street below.<br/><br/>But guess what - <b>Breaking news!!! Another man</b> is climbing the building again!!! He's up about 30 stories right now as of 6:15pm ET.<br/><br/>You can watch the live video <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local&amp;id=6188241" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Parents were asked to keep their children away from the tv, you know, just in case he takes a header.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Man climbs building with vacuum gloves]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/129027/1/" /><id>129027</id><summary><![CDATA[Man climbs building with vacuum gloves]]></summary><issued>2009-07-25T17:40:50+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-25T17:40:50+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A man has climbed up a BBC building using a pair of vacuum gloves he built himself, in a stunt for a new BBC One science show. <br/><br/>*W/Video*]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Changing the colors on the Empire State Building]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/17357/1/" /><id>17357</id><summary><![CDATA[Changing the colors on the Empire State Building]]></summary><issued>2007-04-21T14:52:00+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-21T14:52:00+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[It takes 6 workers 6 hours to change the colors lighting the building. Now, they're getting a break.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Famous Capitol Records Building Sold]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/1643/1/" /><id>1643</id><summary><![CDATA[Famous Capitol Records Building Sold]]></summary><issued>2006-09-29T15:40:51+01:00</issued><modified>2006-09-29T15:40:51+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA['The label will still be housed there on a long-term lease.'  The building is a landmark and has been photographed in countless films and television shows.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Toddler Thrown From Burning Building]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/49492/1/" /><id>49492</id><summary><![CDATA[Toddler Thrown From Burning Building]]></summary><issued>2008-02-05T10:34:01+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-05T10:34:01+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Photo Essay - A toddler is hurled from a burning building. The girl's parents tossed her to members of the fire brigade, not seen, during a fire in an apartment building in Germany. Nine people, including five children, died in the blaze.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[U.S. Capitol Building Built from 22,000 Playing Cards]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/arts/l/53081/1/" /><id>53081</id><summary><![CDATA[U.S. Capitol Building Built from 22,000 Playing Cards]]></summary><issued>2008-03-05T00:58:35+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-05T00:58:35+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[And then shamelessly destroyed by flying watermelons.<br/>You won't believe it until you see it.<br/><br/>EDIT: Plime seems to hate me, can someone add a themepic please?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Goon Tower]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/43857/1/" /><id>43857</id><summary><![CDATA[Goon Tower]]></summary><issued>2007-12-11T08:44:29+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-11T08:44:29+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A very tall building with everything in it. From 'Reservoir Dogs' to 2 different kinds of pacman. Everything... [scroll down]]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Perhaps The Strangest Suicide In History]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/76300/1/" /><id>76300</id><summary><![CDATA[Perhaps The Strangest Suicide In History]]></summary><issued>2008-09-15T23:50:06+01:00</issued><modified>2008-09-15T23:50:06+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&quot;The decedent had jumped from the top of a ten-story building intending to commit suicide (he left a note indicating his dispondency). As he fell past the ninth floor, his life was interrupted by a shotgun blast through a window, which killed him instantly.&quot; <b>And the story gets better...</b> <br/><br/>(The website has some strange colors, hard to read. The full story is copied in the comments.)]]></content></entry></items></xml>