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Photography: Google LIFE photo archive

By fpp ⋅ 19-November-2008 at 21:34 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

Google has made large parts of the LIFE photography archive available within its image search. There are many high resolution images included since the American Civil war and the first LIFE Magazine. You can also search this archive by adding “source:life” in the normal Google image search.

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Image: Change is coming

By fpp ⋅ 5-November-2008 at 21:57 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

While we don’t like the idea to demonstrate any difference between people by the color of your skin, we are remembering that not so long ago (less than 30 years in some states of the U.S.) a person like Obama would have seen his parents arrested for the (difference in the) color of their skin and he himself would have been a complete outcast in normal life left alone political life.

So because of this and only because of this we believe the image below might visualize how big a step the U.S. has made yesterday with Barack Obama’s election for President.

It certainly visualizes that there is a change. And when can you see 44 U.S. Presidents all together in one image.

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Humor: Pay Rises

By fpp ⋅ 1-November-2008 at 15:44 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

In quite a few countries around the globe the next rounds of pay negotiations will soon start or have just started. And this time those negotiations most likely in a few countries might turn out to end in fights for workers getting at least the inflationary price increases covered.

Interestingly enough while those managers that have caused the current world wide economic crisis have recently given themselves pay rises of 20% or more (plus of course millions in bonus and dividend payments) they are once more demonstrating complete resistance to let those who create the results participate - even with a minimal share. And based on recent publications real inflation e.g. in the UK is actually closer to 18% and not around the 3-4% published by the government.

Now here’s an image to help sustain these hardships and to make you feel better (or at least smile).

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The Incredible Lightness of Being: Today Wall Street

By fpp ⋅ 29-September-2008 at 21:15 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

I guess there is not much that need to be said on what happened today at Wall Street. We dropped in charts of the leading stock indexes / average (DJIA & NASDAQ) for documentation.

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Bail-Out: The Nigeria Connection

By fpp ⋅ 24-September-2008 at 23:41 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

So we are not the only ones making fun of the great thought through U.S. bail-out plan that in its original form would provide almost absolutistic powers to the U.S. treasury secretary.

There is a great image (link below) on Flickr asking for support in the form of a Nigerian email scam letter

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Image: Satanic

By fpp ⋅ 9-September-2008 at 23:47 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

The horror version of the foundering Titanic. So it wasn’t an iceberg after all…

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DIY: Make your own Porsche Wallpaper

By fpp ⋅ 5-September-2008 at 22:22 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

Called “Picture it“, Porsche has made an online image application available that allows to combine your own images as background with images of Porsche cars.

Porsche suggests that you use an image of “your drive way” as background, but any other picture is possible as well (as long as it is smaller than 4MB). We’ve used some…

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Humor: Change your nationality with Google Chrome

By fpp ⋅ 2-September-2008 at 23:24 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

Not even out a day as a Beta release Google’s new web browsers already has massive impact on people living in parts of Europe.

If your Belgium, Austrian, Danish, Dutch or from parts of the Czech Republic and Switzerland from now on you’re part of the Greater German Reich. Please send your passport to Google and…

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