Topic: LEGO - on August 15, 2013 at 2:31:00 PM CEST
A Lego Set for Budding Architects, With No Instructions
Architecture Studio, a new set from Lego, comes with 1,210 white and translucent bricks. More notable is what it lacks: namely, instructions for any single thing you’re supposed to build with it. Instead, the kit is accompanied by a thick, 277-page guidebook filled with architectural concepts and building techniques alongside real world insights from prominent architecture studios from around the globe. In other words, this box o’ bricks is a little different. Where past Lego products might have had the happy ancillary effect of nurturing youngsters’ interest in architecture, here, that’s the entire point.
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Topic: MUSIK - on August 15, 2013 at 2:28:00 PM CEST
Prince Starts Using Twitter
Prince, the artist formerly known as distrustful of the internet, has come to the dark side. As of last night, he's now an active user of that thing called Twitter, posting messages from the account of his group 3rd Eye Girl. His approach thus far is that of any self-respecting Twitter user (just kidding, no such thing): part self-promotional, part funny. My favorite is, "1st selfie #selfie" which just links to a photo of smoke. Now we just need to get Jennifer Lawrence signed up for this thing.
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Topic: MUSIK - on August 15, 2013 at 2:25:00 PM CEST
Trailer for Wax Trax! Documentary
”Regressive Films is super-psyched to be working on the Wax Trax! Records Documentary with Julia Nash. We have already conducted great interviews with Paul Barker (Ministry, RevCo), Chris Connelly (Ministry, RevCo), Richard 23 and Patrick Codenys (Front 242), En Esch (KMFDM), Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys, LARD), as well many of the store and label staff. We will be covering Wax Trax!
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Topic: VIDEO - on August 14, 2013 at 3:16:00 PM CEST
Placebo – Too Many Friends (feat. Bret Easton Ellis)
"PAY ATTENTION...AND PLEASE WRITE YOUR ANSWER IN THE COMMENT SECTION BELOW"
#TooManyFriends
Written & Directed by: Saman Kesh / @ghibli303 Narrated by: Bret Easton Ellis / @BretEastonEllis
Freaking Saman, you did it again!! You make me woke up from bed to congratulate you (apparently you can't really write comments from the Vimeo App). I would call this another creative "Home Run". I hope the day to collaborate together on a project is getting closer. You really remind me that creativity has no boundaries and it's a great way to make a living.
Great work men!
Placebo // Too Many Friends (with Bret Easton Ellis) from Saman Kesh on Vimeo.
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Topic: TV - on August 14, 2013 at 2:57:00 PM CEST
Deutsche TV-Sender auf YouTube
Im letzten halben Jahr haben die Investments in YouTube-Inhalte und YouTube-Netzwerke deutlich zugenommen. Das ist nicht weiter verwunderlich, denn die Strukturen auf der Plattform professionalisieren sich zunehmend, so dass man in ausgewählten Fällen bereits von einer neuen Sendergeneration sprechen kann. Es ist also nur eine logische Konsequenz, dass allein in den letzten sechs Monaten Medienkonzerne über $110 Millionen in das Ökosystem investiert haben:
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 14, 2013 at 2:54:00 PM CEST
Ex-Callgirl-Agentin: "Hollywood Madam" betreibt üppige Marihuana-Plantage
Als Polizeibeamte die Ex-Callgirl-Vermittlerin Heidi Fleiss zu Hause aufsuchten, staunten sie über deren grünen Daumen: Gleich mehrere hundert Marihuana-Pflanzen hatte die Dame bei sich stehen. Sie seien für eine "Genossenschaft in Las Vegas" bestimmt, beteuerte die 47-Jährige.
Hunderte wohlgepflegte Marihuana-Pflanzen entdeckten Beamte der Polizei im US-Bundesstaat Nevada auf dem Anwesen von Heidi Fleiss, bekannt als die "Hollywood Madam". Die Gesetzeshüter fanden 158 Hanfpflanzen im Garten und 234 weitere im Haus der ehemaligen Callgirl-Vermittlerin in Pahrump an der Grenze zu Kalifornien.
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 14, 2013 at 2:53:00 PM CEST
US could slash prison terms for drug dealers under sweeping review
Prison terms for all federal drug dealing offences could be cut under a sweeping sentencing review expected to be announced on Thursday that may go much further than the tentative steps toward ending America's "war on drugs", begun this week by attorney general Eric Holder.
The US Sentencing Commission, the independent government agency responsible for setting guidelines for judges, will meet in Washington to consider amending the "drug quantity table" – the grid that determines prison lengths for dozens of different categories of offence.
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Topic: STRANGE - on August 14, 2013 at 2:51:00 PM CEST
Welcome to the future: New Zealand approves permit for jet pack
We could all be flying around on jet packs sometime soon—we just have to pony up $150,000.
New Zealand and Australian media reported Tuesday that the country’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has granted approval to the Martin Aircraft Company for an “Experimental Flight Permit,” which could pave the way for broad commercial sales.
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Topic: WEB - on August 14, 2013 at 1:16:00 PM CEST
Meet the Hackers Who Want to Jailbreak the Internet
One guy is wearing his Google Glass. Another showed up in an HTML5 t-shirt. And then there’s the dude who looks like the Mad Hatter, decked out in a top hat with an enormous white flower tucked into the brim.
At first, they look like any other gaggle of tech geeks. But then you notice that one of them is Ward Cunningham, the man who invented the wiki, the tech that underpins Wikipedia. And there’s Kevin Marks, the former vice president of web services at British Telecom. Oh, and don’t miss Brad Fitzpatrick, creator of the seminal blogging site LiveJournal and, more recently, a coder who works in the engine room of Google’s online empire.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on August 14, 2013 at 1:07:00 PM CEST
Google: “Nutzer von Gmail können keine Privatsphäre erwarten”
In einer Stellungnahme zu einem laufenden Gerichtsverfahren haben Anwälte von Google erklärt, dass Nutzer die Emails an Googles Mailservice Gmail schicken, keine Privatsphäre zu erwarten hätten. Das berichtet Consumerwatchdog, denen die Stellungnahme von Google vorliegt.
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Topic: LAW - on August 13, 2013 at 5:35:00 PM CEST
Beijing rock villa on high-rise roof to be demolished
A Chinese man who built a rock-covered roof-top villa on top of a high-rise building has told the BBC he will comply with an order to demolish it.
The villa, surrounded by rocks, trees and bushes, sits on top of a 26-storey building in Beijing's Haidian district.
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Topic: DOPE HEAD - on August 13, 2013 at 5:19:00 PM CEST
Russian surgeon steals heroin he removed from drug mule's stomach
A Russian surgeon, who took a cut for himself when removing heroin from the stomach of a drug mule in Siberia for the police, faces up to 15 years in prison for theft and drug possession.
The doctor was high when agents arrested him, according to the ministry of the interior.
The surgeon, who has not been named but who worked in the small city of Bogotol in the Krasnoyarsk region, removed capsules of heroin from the stomach of a drug smuggler.
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