Yesterday launched the new LEED exams. 2B a Green Associate, you'll take a 2-hr exam; LEED AP+, take a 2-part, 4-hr exam... RT Estrella Oculus

RT ArchDaily: Opening day at the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009 http://bit.ly/TpGaU

RT Secretary Jake Day: CNNMoney pres. sham '100 Best Places to Live'... 86 ex/suburbs. 7 towns, 7 small cities. no major city. http://bit.ly/1Z0u6m

RT Mashable: At $6.5 Billion, Facebook is Now Worth More than CBS - http://bit.ly/I3pF5

RT AFH New Delhi: 1 Billion squatters today, by 2030, 1 in 4 people. ‘Endless Cities - Redux’ visual documentary: http://bit.ly/17imws

Aw, thanks Moa_Jan. You should also follow our sadder twitter at archlayoff. It'll make you want to wait a bit longer ;) GL to you!!!

Oops. Literally bumped into Monic Ponce de Leon of UMich & Office Da at DTW. How to get her perspective... Still want Cameron Sinclair w/o bump.

Inside the looking glass, Manchester arch grads talk the sad state of the economy... Yay optimism, boo financial crisis. http://bit.ly/lUpDD

Caterpillar stock opens down (a lot) today in NYC on news earnings are way down. Omen for all construction and development pundits say.

Caterpillar quarterly earnings dwn 66% (!!), Dupont sales dwn 22%. Dupont alrdy slashed 45000 jobs as auto, indust & constr markets weaken.

End of the second day of #AIAS Grassroots Conf & tales to be told of leadership, inspiration, legacy, & service (RT @JeNenChastain)

Ann Arbor is now the first city to not have a print newspaper (heard that somewhere). Welcome AnnArbor.com, the online "replacement".

Design, term "United States" deemed national security risk... No, seriously. http://bit.ly/lK2du (Real shame delivered via Pentagram Design)

We forget that the founder of One Laptop Per Child, Nick Negoponte, was an architect.

Awesome architects, as seen on TV... What Google tells us we look like. http://bit.ly/1j94N1

Contributor Kim Tanzer elected first president of Natl Academy for Environmental Design Council. http://www.naedonline.org/

Renown modernist architect Charles Gwathmey dies at age 71. http://su.pr/2Mgmig

Factoid of opportunity: Amount of vacant and abandoned land in Detroit would roughly add up to the size of the city of San Francisco.

@VariousArch@hyde_architects thanks for the mention!

RT Architects League via ShantyMinister: Architecture tops the list of hardest-hit U.S. jobs of 2009 http://tinyurl.com/yf4qcvh