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Archive for the 'Time' Category
China: Happy new year
Happy Chinese New Year! It’s the year of the pig - the last of the 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac - that symbolizes good luck, but as well turbulence. And it is also the year of the Golden Pig, which falls once every 60 years. Many women in China were still the one child per family rule is in place, are now trying to give birth to their child and managers in companies around the country are already complaining about staff shortages as so many seemingly have chosen this year for their pregnancy. Chinese “fortune tellers” are saying that while it will be a lucky year to get born, for the rest of us it might be…
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Humor: Rubik Cube for lazy people
One object from Madrid based street artist “Spy” - see for yourself…
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Time: Visualize the Blogosphere
Swedish company PrimeLabs is providing a new screen-saver called “Twingly” that visualizes worldwide RSS feeds on a globe in real time…
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Happy Valentine
Happy Valentine from the Duvet-Dayz team to all of you…
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Second Life: Best quote on what it is
We documented some background information on Second Life a few weeks ago. Now Robert Scoble has provided us with the best definition from an interview he has done last week at LIFT show in Geneva:
He was interviewing Sister Judith Zoebelein, who manages the Vatican’s Web site and asked her:
“… do you think we’ll soon go [...]
Time: 150 Years of the Atlantic Magazine
To celebrate its 150 years anniversary U.S. Magazine “The Atlantic” has put together a selection of the best articles from its vast archives. As The Atlantic was always popular with the best writers you find well known names like W. Heisenberg, A. Miller, J.D. Watson, C. S. Lewis, N. Mailer, H. Münsterberg, A. M. Schlesinger, M. Twain, V. Bush, V. Woolf, A. Camus, R. D. Kaplan, R. Frost, J. M. Keynes, P. F. Drucker, M. L. King Jr., T. Roosevelt, J. F. Kennedy - just to name a few.
We have put together the pretty long overall list of the articles selected by area of interest. And the best of course is that most of those articles are available online without a subscription…
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Comix: All Tintin cars with real world counterparts
If you like “Tintin BDs” as much as we do this “web site” is a must. It shows all cars used in the comic books - currently 154 - sorted by album and their real world counterparts…
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Air-Traffic: Crowded Skies are soon to come
When you look at the image created by “Smartskies” you see how many so called “corporate jets” were leaving the Miami area after the Superbowl earlier this week. And this is just the beginning. Today these private and business jets are only available for the top percentile. But as reported earlier “Very Light Jets (VLJ)” that will cost a fraction of the price…
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Humor: Council extends year to 367 days
A town in the UK will have 367 days this year - at least on their official calendar. They spent almost USD 10,000 on the calendars and provided it to 9,500 homes without having noticed that one day was printed twice and another one invented. Unfortunately only one of the days is on the weekend…
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Fun: The Nihilist Chewing Gum
The Nihilist chewing gum actually has no flavor, but unexpectedly there are real chewing gums in the USD 1.75 box from “Stupid.com”…
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