Topic: POLITIK - on May 3, 2009 at 2:18:00 PM CEST
Angela Merkel in her underwear stops traffic
Berliners on the city's main shopping drag, the "Ku'damm", were greeted Thursday with an unusual sight: a giant mocked-up image of Chancellor Angela Merkel in a matching purple bra and knicker set.
The 100-metre-square (1,000-square-foot) image of the half-naked world leader is part of a nationwide advertising campaign for an underwear company aiming to cash in on the success of a "cash-for-clunkers" scheme for old cars.
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Topic: ART - on May 3, 2009 at 2:15:00 PM CEST
Banksy Costume
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Topic: POLITIK - on May 3, 2009 at 2:09:00 PM CEST
an age old american argument
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Topic: logisch - on May 3, 2009 at 1:17:00 PM CEST
The 10 Biggest Intellectual Fights Of All time
In our modern, scientific world it is sometimes easy to forget that human progress often comes attached to some spectacular intellectual clashes between different ways of looking at things and differing interpretations of what is seen. There have been some notable intellectual mind-fights over the millennia, the following are ten such fights, the outcome of which changed the world into what we know of it today.
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Topic: VIDEO - on May 3, 2009 at 1:13:00 PM CEST
Want a Remix Manifesto? Name Your Price, Says RiP Director
When it comes to remix culture, copyfight and crowd-sourcing, Brett Gaylor walks the walk. The director of “open source documentary” RiP: A Remix Manifesto released his feature-length film under a Creative Commons license and even adopted Radiohead’s name-your-own-price business model when he made the movie available online.
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Topic: ART - on May 3, 2009 at 1:08:00 PM CEST
40 Amazing 3D Fractals Using Apophysis
Today we’re featuring 40 fractal images created using Apophysis. It’s a free Windows program for designing and rendering fractal flames. You can download the software for free at SourceForge
Recently, Apophysis has been getting more and more popular among the community of DeviantArt. Apophysis, and competing fractal product UltraFractal, are the most popular fractal software used by fractal artists on deviantART.
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Topic: ART - on May 3, 2009 at 1:05:00 PM CEST
Marco Tempest's Augmented Reality card trick makes David Copperfield look positively ludditic
Illusionist and augmented reality artiste Marco Tempest has put together a video preview of his newest act, called (aptly enough) "Augmented Reality Magic 1.0," and has been kind enough to share it with us. In the video, Tempest uses AR to demonstrate what's going on in his fertile imagination as he performs a card trick -- cards levitate, Jokers dance, and the birthday cake?
engadget.comVirtual Magic: Augmented Reality Card Tricks with Marco, OpenFrameWorks
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