Video: Drunken Russian Girls

One of our favorite Russian web logs “English Russia” has put up a video of young drunken Russian girls. While they describe the vodka drinking as…

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Winter: Ski-Cams around the World

Good old web site “Earthcam.com” has a section with ski cams around the world online. The selection is a bit limited, but for the most popular ski resorts a link to the…

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BBC: Pictures of 2006

The BBC has now published its selection from the best pictures of 2006. Our favorite remains the picture (no 3) of a bunch of posh Lebanese driving with their new Mini Convertible through the poor suburbs of Beirut that have been hit by Israeli attacks. This picture tells many stories and…

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Advertising: Reminding shoppers

…Under the image one could read: “You can feed a child for two days with what you spend renting this cart. Help”…

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Year End Wishes: The box of chocolate

As we are getting closer to the end of the year it is getting high time to think about new year’s resolutions and what we hope the next year would bring.
But sometimes these thoughts are understood wrongly as this supposedly true story tells us…(first version is attributed to Bill Bryson)

In the weeks before Christmas the [...]

Photograpy: Jorn Olsen’s cloud pictures

As a short continuation from our “cloud spotting” story we wanted to point you to Jorn Olsen’s impressive photos of so called “Mammatus clouds”…

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Virtual Reality: Fullscreen Panoramas

Hans Nyberg from “panoramas.dk” and Marco Trezzini of “VRMAG.org” have teamed up to create the web site “Fullscreenqtvr.com”. Together they have collected and created ten thousands of QuickTime Virtual Reality and Java panoramas…

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World Economic Forum announces Technology Pioneers 2007

The World Economic Forum has selected 47 visionary companies as Technology Pioneers 2007. Each of the selected companies is involved in the development of life-changing technology innovation and has potential for long-term impact on business and society…
…Following the list of IT companies awarded for 2007 with a brief summary of their innovations, when, by whom,where they were founded together with the names of the leading investors for each company…

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UK: (Small) Tornado hits North London

While there are about 50 small Tornadoes reported on land in the UK each year - the most of all countries in Europe - this one due to the damages created is quite unusual. Within less then a minute that the tornado lasted it severely damaged more then 100 houses and injured a series of [...]

Design: Ithemba light bulbs

In 2003 two South African designers, Cyrille Varet and Scott Hart, started to ask well known fashion designers and artists to design light bulbs. And since then more than 60 of the best know artist in the world have joint their efforts to support women affected by AIDS. The list includes Fashion designers like John Galliano, JC de Castelbajac, Vivienne Westwood, Thierry Mugler, Calvin Klein and many others (full list below)…

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