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Cartoon: Tales from the outsourcing industry
Another great Geek & Poke cartoon this one is about outsourcing based on an article from Forbes magazine last week that predicts an end to India’s cost advantage by 2015…
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Opinion: Rants and Raves
While we wait for the results to come in from Texas and Ohio take a moment, turn off and away from all the well shaped speaches you might tonight hear again. Today its 75 years ago that Franklin D. Roosevelt held his inauguration speech, his speech to seal the “new deal“. FDR’s “new deal” was [...]
Animation: The Adventures of Prince Achmed
A 7 minutes scene from “The Adventures of Prince Achmed” – an animated feature film by “Lotte Reiniger” from 1926. This film is said to be the oldest surviving animated feature film. If you’re interested in Lotte Reininger films you will find references to other scenes with the movie link below…
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Cartoon: Mr. M. having a bad day
A dark cartoon of what definitely is a bad day…
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Will speedcabling become a new geek sport?
What once was called – go clean out that closet with the patch cables – in now being turned into a new type of sport for geeks. Speedcabling, as they call it, already had its first competitions held in Echo Park, CA.
During the Speedcabling events contestants try to unravel a bundle of wires as quickly as possible. And there are rules what a bundle of cable is and how these should be intertwined within a set…
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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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