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What does British Media think about US Middle Eastern politics
While these days its getting more dimmed-down in British media about their own country when it comes to foreign and in particular US politics they still call a spade a spade. So we wanted to point you to one story that seemingly did not get much attention outside of the UK but it includes a [...]
More cash handouts (this time in Jersey)
In completely unrelated news to the Modern Day Robin Hood story it was reported that property tycoon and Multi-Millionaire David Kirch has started yesterday to hand out £100 (USD195) early Christmas presents to every Jersey (channel islands) citizen aged 70 or above.
Since yesterday, anyone aged 70-plus can go to his or her parish hall [...]
Video: Modern Day Robin Hood
A group of friends from Sheffield, UK who call themselves “Modern Day Robin Hood” created quite some stir-up when they moved over to New York last week and handed out cash on the streets. While people did receive the stunt very positive and enjoyed the humor of the “mad English men” mainstream press was up in arms…
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Christmas shopping for the egotist: Get a Personal Madame Tussauds Wax Figure
It seems to be good times for all our self-centered contemporaries who now also can get their kind of share of importance. For the “negligible” amount of USD 270,000 you can now commission the wax artists of the Tussauds group to immortalize you…
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Design: Turn X4
With his Turn X4 project Mexican designer Agustin Otegui Saiz has managed to bring the reverso watch concept one step further and also transfered it to modern designer watches…
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Create a Kaleidoscope from (your) web site images
This Kaleidoscope generator automatically creates animated Kaleidoscopes from web site images. Very impressive results. Just enter a URL and watch…
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Best News Picture Galleries on the Web
You can read your daily news online or via RSS but there is another way to get informed (and get your daily dose of news pictures). Major media agencies and news papers also provide daily or weekly updated news in pictures. Quite a few of them have even added spoken comments to the pictures so you get some background information together with the images. And often you get multiple images for a news story where otherwise only one of these pictures is included with a longer text. The services we included in the list below are the largest providers and often the source for other news and media sites. They cover news on a global level but some have also regional information. We have broken the list down into the following four sections (Daily picture sources, Weekly picture sources, Yearly picture awards and reviews, Historic and all time famous pictures)…
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Duvet-Dayz: Last week’s most popular posts (week 12-November-2006)
Most popular posts (week 12-November - 19-November-2006):(27-10-2006) Top 10 time waster games
(16-11-2006) UCLA: Get Tasered for using the Computer Lab
(15-11-2006) Dance of the Flight Attendant
(15-11-2006) The BEST Interactive Image Interfaces on the Web
(06-11-2006) Gaming Digg or is anybody actually looking at the posts?
(09-11-2006) Video: FedEx Ant Hill
(08-11-2006) Update: Gaming Digg or is anybody actually [...]
Casino Royal: l’art du déplacement
With Sebastien Foucan playing the villain in 007- Casino Royal and Luc Besson’s District-B13 with David Belle having just arrived in the US a few weeks ago more popularity will be drawn to Parkour, free running, urban free flow or Yamakasi as the “art” behind the incredible stunts in these movies is called…
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Manufactured Landscapes
Last month Jennifer Baichwal’s documentary “Manufactured Landscapes”, a portrait of Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky won the Toronto-City Award for the Best Canadian Feature Film. The film follows Burtynsky to China as he travels the country…
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