Topic: VIDEO - on November 23, 2007 at 12:26:00 PM CET
The Video Director Who Invented the 80s
DVD collections have celebrated the music video work of Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, Mark Romanek and the like, but there is one essential name missing from the roster: Russell Mulcahy. Best known to cult film fanatics as the man behind the Highlander movies (and the newest Resident Evil film, a sad illustration of his current career arc), this Australian director is perhaps the most influential music video director of all time. Why? Because he practically pioneered the form - or should I say pioneered the form of the cheesy 80s video.
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Topic: LEGO - on November 23, 2007 at 12:06:00 PM CET
LEGO Education - Building Asia Brick By Brick
With booming economic growth, the East Asia of today looks radically different from that 20 years ago and will change just as drastically in the next 20. But modernisation often comes at the cost of tradition, and you can see in China that thousands of older, traditional buildings have been razed and replaced. The Building Asia Brick By Brick project wants to raise awareness for traditional architecture in a more playful way: Architects from China, Japan and Thailand amongst others were given kits of white LEGO building blocks and told to have just fun. The results, from Asiatic temples to futuristic towers to sustainable old-and-new city plans are currently touring Asia. PingMag talked to Andrew Maerkle of Art AsiaPacific and Wei Wei Shannon of People’s Architecture about their Brick By Brick collaboration.
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Topic: Online-Fahndung - on November 23, 2007 at 12:04:00 PM CET
Skype Encryption Stumps German Police
German police are unable to decipher the encryption used in the internet telephone software Skype to monitor calls by suspected criminals and terrorists, Germany's top police officer, Joerg Ziercke, said. "The encryption with Skype telephone software ... creates grave difficulties for us... We can't decipher it. That's why we're talking about source telecommunication surveillance — that is, getting to the source before encryption or after it's been decrypted
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Topic: SECURITY - on November 23, 2007 at 12:03:00 PM CET
Rogue nodes snoop on TOR traffic
Researchers have uncovered more evidence that the TOR anonymiser network is being misused by hackers, and quite likely government intelligence agencies.
TOR (The Onion Router) is a network of proxy nodes set up to provide some privacy and anonymity to its users. Originally backed by the US Naval Research Laboratory, TOR became an Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) project three years ago. The system provides a way for whistleblowers and human rights workers to exchange information with journalists, among other things. The system also provides plenty of scope for mischief.
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Topic: food - on November 23, 2007 at 11:56:00 AM CET
Francis Ford Coppola has released his Wine By The Glass.
Packaged in reusable, recyclable PETa glasses molded after his favorite trattoria glasses. Enjoy fine wines everywhere.
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