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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UCLA: Get Tasered for using the Computer Lab

An incident happened last night on the UCLA campus when, as reported, a student was shot down with a taser gun multiple times by University Police officers for not showing them his ID immediately. There is a full report of the incident at the Daily Bruin web site.
Multiple students documented the incident with their video [...]

Starbucks: It’s Red Again campaign

Don’t take this post as a blunt advertisement for lattes, motchas or cappuccinos. This year’s Starbucks Christmas campaign is called It’s Red Again.
“It’s Red Again” is an interesting mixture of promotion and social experiment. It aims to inspire people to pass along the Holiday tradition of kindness. Starbucks President and CEO Jim Donald together with [...]

Images: Sign of the Time?

The picture below was taken at Colombia’s largest public university (Universidad Nacional “la Nacho”) in Bogotá. Every year after the university campus is painted white, the same graffiti reappear since the late 60’s showing heroes of the “revolution”.

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via Wooster Collective

Christmas shopping for the ultra-rich (1)

Christmas is approaching fast so we want to contribute our part and support a group of our society - often overlooked - but in real need.
In a brief series we will provide some suggestions to those that are now discovering that this year again has already gone by while they still trying to [...]

Granta: How (not) to write about Africa

UK magazine Granta has a great article online describing how many writers are exploiting cliches and stereotypes when writing about Africa.
It is titled How to write about Africa and written by celebrated Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina. Worth reading

Some quotes:…Always use the word ‘Africa’ or ‘Darkness’ or ‘Safari’ in your title. Subtitles may include the [...]

Formula 1: Win more then 90 races and get an island for free

After his last race in Brazil yesterday Formula 1 seven time world champion Michael Schumacher received a very special gift from Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
Dubai’s crown prince gave the retired race driver one of the about 300 islands in the archipelago of artificial islands, shaped like the continents of the Earth and [...]

Boy Scouts: Be prepared and earn merits with the MPAA

If you thought that the boy scouts motto “Be prepared” means loyalty, helpfulness, and being trustworthy you can add another one.
More then 50,000 boy scouts in the Los Angeles area now can also earn merits through partnering MPAA organization with their “Respect Copyrights” badge.
Activities for earning the badge include identifying 3 ways copyrighted [...]

Star Trek 40 years anniversary and Christies

Beam me up Scotty…
Christies last week completed its first “official” auction of Star Trek items, with about 1,000 lots put up by CBS Paramount Television Studios, including props and costumes used in the TV shows and films.

And Kirk you’re a Red Shirt when you didn’t get your hand on some of the alien ship [...]