Saturday, June 18, 2005

A weekend diversion...

Sue Pelletier points the world to one of the stranger web sites we have come across:

Casino carpeting: I guess it could be considered art: "Talk about your weird obsessions--David G. Schwartz, who runs the Gaming Studies Research Center at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, is really into casino carpets (here's a link to his online casino carpet gallery. He says on his site:..."



(Via face2face.)



What, you may well ask, has all this to do with Asian Business Media? Only that, as Las Vegas comes to Macau, we have to wonder just how bad the carpets might be at South China's newest convention centre when the Venetian opens its doors in CoTai in 2007. Anybody who has ever visited Macau's existing facilities will know that they have the capacity to make Vegas look like a restrained display of good taste in Architectural Digest by comparison.

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