Topic: PHOTO - on October 23, 2008 at 3:08:00 PM CEST
Perroquet: beautiful slow-motion ambient film and images
Conventional fashion photography allows the image-maker to draw on a wealth of outside creative resources -be it a hair-stylist, make-up artist, or fashion stylist - to enable them to realise their intentions. In Parroquet, the subject matter encouraged Sundsbø to take a somewhat different approach, focusing on one specific element: the movement of the bird in flight.
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Topic: FUN - on October 23, 2008 at 3:06:00 PM CEST
Terry Gilliam - The Miracle of Flight
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Topic: GOOGLE - on October 23, 2008 at 3:01:00 PM CEST
See Your AdSense Earnings Data in Google Analytics
So the rumor was true. You can now integrate your AdSense account with Google Analytics. The feature is being slowly rolled out but until then, this YouTube video will give you enough hints of what’s in store for you or check the screenshots. Good times.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on October 23, 2008 at 2:55:00 PM CEST
A Look At Google’s Newest Data Center
On Monday we got a look at Microsoft’s “hangar bay” for data center containers inside its new Northlake, Illinois facility. We’ve also been told that one of the Google company-built data centers included in its energy efficiency data “could be a container data center.” So what might one of Google’s container data centers look like?
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Topic: SECURITY - on October 23, 2008 at 2:42:00 PM CEST
Blackwater has a warship?
BLACKWATER Worldwide — the US private military contractor embroiled in controversy over its actions in Iraq — has sent a private sector warship equipped with helicopters to the Gulf of Aden, and is offering its services to shipowners concerned with Somali piracy.
The vessel, McArthur, is described as a multipurpose unit designed to support military and law-enforcement training, peace-keeping and stability operations.
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Topic: PHOTO - on October 23, 2008 at 2:39:00 PM CEST
A Long Exposure: 100 years of Guardian photography
Guardian photographer Denis Thorpe and northern editor Martin Wainwright discuss an exhibition of pictures taken by the paper's Manchester photographers. The exhibition, curated by Thorpe, includes striking work taken since the paper appointed its first staff photographer, Walter Doughty, in 1908. A Long Exposure: 100 Years of Guardian Photography runs until March 1 2009 at The Lowry in Salford, Greater Manchester
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 23, 2008 at 2:29:00 PM CEST
Best Bong-Related Images from Flickr
We’ve all seen the pictures of the nun hitting her bong and someone’s great grandmother taking a huge pull from a gravity bong. These humorous and viral pics inspired me to search for other bong-related images on Flickr which were as potentially jaw-dropping.
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