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Urban Life: The Touch project in Brussels
Touch was an urban interactive installation by LAb[au] that took place from 26 December 2006 until 15 January 2007 on the Dexia-Tower and Place Rogier in Brussels, Belgium. The 145 m high Dexia-Tower with 4200 windows each individually color-lightened by RGB-led bars was turned into an immense display…
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DIY: Create your own Paper Toys with ReadyMechs
Now with the arrival of series 2 of the “ReadyMechs” more then 20 templates are available to make your own full color paper toy in about 10-15 minutes. Readymechs are free, flat-pack toys for you to print and build. They are designed to fit on…
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Music: “Superstition” on Sesame Street
Back in 1973 22 year old Stevie Wonder played his famous song “Superstition” on Sesame Street together with Ray Parker Jr. on the guitar, Anthony Jackson on the bass and Olie Brown on the drums. Watch this great moment of TV history online…
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations
Today throughout the US celebrations will be held to honor Martin Luther King Jr. who was murdered 1968 in Memphis. Many things have changed since the march to Washington and his famous speech in 1963, but with the deterioration of civil rights throughout the world’s leading nations latest since 9/11 it is good to be reminded that there was a time not so long ago when people stood up for their rights and did not indulge in indifference to such changes.
A video of his famous speech is available online in full length (link below)…
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China: Stamps with Pork flavor
To celebrate the Chinese year of the pig beginning 18-February-2007, China has released a set of sweet and sour flavored post stamps. When you scratch the stamp it will release the flavor of this typical and well known Chinese dish. It was reported that when you lick the back of the stamps you can also get a taste of this dish. No information on the number of calories per stamp or if it actually contains pork was available…
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Happy Birthday David Bowie
…but we could not let this day go by without saying Happy Birthday to David Robert Jones aka Thin White Duke aka Ziggy Stardust aka David Bowie. It’s his 60th birthday and we still don’t know if there is “Life on Mars” but maybe “Major Tom” will find that out for us. One thing’s for sure we are not “under pressure” to be “Heroes” anymore…
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Video: 43min of IPod History
Somebody has put the Discovery Channel documentary about the Apple IPod online. The 43 minutes video covers the rise and history of Apple’s success with the IPod…
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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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Second Life: Finally some useful numbers and it’s 20,000 not 2 Millions
Linden Labs Second Life really had it the last days. First the press stops praying and hyping and gets a bit more critical - see this “Boing Boing” article to name just one - and then their whole system came to a halt yesterday and is now slowly coming back up again. But what we were really waiting for and couldn’t find was that someone puts that whole hype back in line - so we provide you the figures ourselves…
…[see figures in article]…
…We think its time to get back to real life and see “Second Life” as what it is - just one of many online games with some success. On the charts with the Asian figures alone you would have problems to plot the numbers for Second Life as they are so much smaller than even those from games with medium success. And that’s after all the hype and massive increase in user numbers for Second Life…
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Video: Gerald Ford tells the story behind his famous “national nightmare” remark
In this video from an never-before-seen 1984 CBS interview former President Gerald Ford tells the story behind his famous “national nightmare” remark. He had requested that this would not be broadcasted before his death…
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