Live on Camera: Space Debris breaks up in the Sky

Reporters from Live-TV station “Fox 31″ were quite surprised yesterday evening when one of their news choppers managed to capture the breaking up of space debris in the atmosphere. The “light show” that looked like meteorites - as NORAD has confirmed - was caused by the re-entry of a spent Russian science rocket. More information and a video at the…

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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 [...]

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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ARTE.TV: Best General Overview on AIDS

We always liked Jean-Christophe Victor geo-political series “Le Dessous des Cartes” for European TV station Arte.tv. Every week since years he describes political topics with maps and info graphics. And for each episode there is a slide show with all the graphics put online. This year they have also created a 3-part special on AIDS…

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World AIDS Day: Speeches, Speeches, Speeches

Like at every “World AIDS Day” before it is also the day of speeches and memorandums. And clapping each other’s back to tell how great work we all do. The same has happened for more than 30 years within the “fight” against Malaria and Tuberculosis and – let’s face it - there is lots of room for improvement and more efficiency. Maybe people should just start getting the job done and…

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UNAIDS: People and Organizations of Today

The faces and logos of UNAIDS Cosponsors, Special representatives, Partners and leaders with their message for todays World AIDS Day…

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