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Archive for April, 2008
Video: Witch night mix
For all you witches out there tonight - your night - Walpurgis Night - here comes the witch mix….
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Animation: Love your Neighbours
An absolute classic stop-motion film from 1952. Starts a bit slow but worth watching in full length. We can only imagine the efforts required to create this film without digital technology…
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Quote of the day: Driving a car called Politics
American politics are much like driving. To go backward, put it in R. To go forward, put it in D.
anonymous, found on the Internet
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Animation: The old Man and the Sea
This beautiful animation of Hemingway’s saga “The old man and the sea” has been completely hand painted - all 29,000 frames of it. It’s actually more an independent film created by Russian artist Alexander Petrov and Canadian Pascal Blais Productions that helped him to get the 21 minute film onto celluloid with IMAX technology.
It won a series of awards and received an Oscar nomination for Best Animation Short Film…
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Humor: Previously on Lost - What?
A 2:10 min compilation of what seems to be the most important scenes from a TV sequel called “Lost” - no wonder if they only use one word. What?
BTW - who’s going do the more appropriate Where? version…
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Quote of the day: Civic courage
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today.
The Western world has lost its civic courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, in each government, in each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations.
Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elites, causing an impression of a loss of courage by the entire society.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, famous Russian dissident writer, Nobel prize and Templeton Prize winner, Harvard University address (1979)
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Segway adds a social element to its gliders
Companies around the world - in an effort to create communities of users around their products - are picking up social networking approaches at a fast pace.
Earlier this month Segway has started to create a network and communications around their self-balancing scooters, allowing users to communicate, create groups, find like minded people around the world or just in their local area, discuss the latest news and share their experiences.
Like Nike and other consumer good companies, Segway with its “Segway Social” network is hoping to attract future buyers by providing them…
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Music: One Pure Thought
The video for British Electropop band Hot Chip’s single “One Pure Thought”. The animation reminds us of pointillism drawings. Great work…
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Fun: The 10 Best (Vintage) Scooter Clips Online
We love scooters and more and more people leave their petrol guzzling four wheels at home and again take a scooter, for the drive to the office, around town - or best - just to go for a ride.
With so many new (electrical / hybrid) and more ecologically friendly four stroke scooters coming to the market lets take a look back how it all began. The beautiful Lambrettas from Innocenti or the old Vespas from Piaggio that after the second World War were the only mean of transport available to many Europeans.
By now they have reached cult status, modded or plain original versions parked somewhere most of the times get you into a chat with some people admiring them. You get a happy smile on people’s faces reminding them of great times and a new start in the life of many.
Today you often find scooters prominently placed in advertising for products that have nothing to do with scootering. But for the real thing there are a few clips and videos that bring back the time and let you feel the wind in your hair. Those clips and videos we tried to find and the best ones we have listed below…
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Environment: WWF - It’s a beautiful day
A new clip for the WWF to raise awareness about Global Warming. We are shown - with black humor - how people have adapted to the changes in weather patterns and natural disasters.
A couple taking a stroll with their baby during a Hurricane, campers out in the “wilderness” that has become a burning forest and the “good people” still washing their cars on the weekend even while they’re drowning in the flood.
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