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Time-Warp: Back to the 60s
This is definitely a great presentation of the sixties – one you should not miss.
While some of the good things from that time seem to be still going strong (forgive us, just back from driving with a Ford Mustang up to Big Sur from L.A. and over to Zabriskie Point) again others things we hoped that won’t come back are back with a vengeance or are already being seen lurking just around the corner (think war, assassinations, Manchurian candidates, surveillance etc.)
BTW, today Polariod stopped supplying their color film prints (mentioned in the image below).
Anyway have a look – to find out how your daddy ticks…
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Opinion: Olbermann timeline or the Nexus of Politics and Terror
Last Thursday night during “MSNBC Countdown” Keith Olbermann presented a timeline of what he calls the “Nexus of Politics and Terror” in the USA. Events are clustered together into 13 time groups starting 18-May-2002 to show how the government and administration in the US has put spin on old, untrue or hold-back information to suppress other stories or influence news and the public towards their political agendas.
The video starts with an intro on the most recent FISA voting…
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Data visualization: Social networks around the world
With new data on Facebook making the headlines yesterday telling us that their user numbers are leveling out in the US and the UK, we remembered that we recently have seen a great info-graphic showing the use of social networks with the most popular providers per country around the world in the French Newspaper “Le Monde”
The data used in the graphic is from August 2007 but it’s interesting to see the popularity of providers in different countries. There are a few white spots on the map, some…
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Opinion: Obamania or Change You Can’t Believe In?
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There is an interesting opinion piece at Spiegel Online – the web site of Germany’s leading political weekly magazine – on Barack Obama’s run for the presidency.
It compares Barack Obama’s campaign to the Dot-Net boom of the 1990s when for companies key economic indicators like profit, sales and numbers of employees, or experience and realism of the management team were replaced by momentum of the rising stock price.
Interesting read and for those who know the realities of dealing with Multi-Billion organizations or of international diplomacy some quite intriguing comparisons…
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Guerrilla Advertising: Obey in Toronto
A series of strange ads have been popping up in Toronto, Canada during the last days advertising for a product called “Obey” and linked to a group calling itself “WhyBecauseISaidSo”
The punch line on one of the ads reads as following:
My son had ideas of his own.
Obay put a stop to that.
The idea behind it – while this is definitely a teaser campaign – is thrilling and scary at the same time. How many people are actually already using drugs to sedate their children and to make them more compliant? And this at times when governments in western countries are passing laws to create a new form of political correctness or citizenship…
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Time: Cold War Calculators
Those who still remember slide rules from the time before pocket calculators or learned flying a plane before GPS devices became so common will love this site. Others who remember the atrocities of the cold war might have a different approach to these relics from a time we all hoped that it would have long passed…
But whatever approach or understanding for that time you might have the web site “Cold War Calculators” – a site dedicate to radiac calculators slides – might show you some new “instruments” seemingly necessary during this dark period…
We didn’t know there were that many kinds of different calculators for these strange purposes – radiation dosage calculators, bomb damage effect computers, nuclear effects estimators, causality slide rules, weapons effects rules and calculators, fallout predictors, burst calculators…
Anyway – bang you’re gone…
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