Topic: WAR - on January 1, 2010 at 12:28:00 PM CET
US-Richter stoppt Blackwater-Verfahren
Mitarbeiter der Sicherheitsfirma Blackwater sollen bei einer Schießerei in Bagdad zahlreiche Zivilisten getötet haben. In den USA drohte den Wachleuten ein Prozess wegen Totschlags. Doch jetzt verwarf ein Richter die Anklage - und kritisierte den Übereifer der Ermittler.
Washington - Richter Ricardo Urbina hat sämtliche Anklagepunkte gegen fünf Mitarbeiter der Sicherheitsfirma Blackwater Worldwide wegen des Todes von 14 Irakern bei der Schießerei in Bagdad verworfen. Die Staatsanwaltschaft habe für ihre Anklage zu Unrecht Aussagen der Beschuldigten verwendet, die diese unter Androhung eines Jobverlusts gegenüber Ermittlern des US-Außenministeriums gemacht hätten, hieß es zur Begründung.
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Topic: ART - on January 1, 2010 at 12:25:00 PM CET
MINI Cooper Shipping Boxes in Amsterdam
Ubachswisbrun/JWT produced a guerilla ad campaign featuring MINI Cooper shipping boxes on the streets of Amsterdam to promote the MINI Amsterdam financing program. I wonder if I could have one shipped using Amazon Prime.
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Topic: ART - on January 1, 2010 at 12:23:00 PM CET
Picasso toy guitar found in Italy
Italian police have found a toy guitar sculpture created by Pablo Picasso for his daughter Paloma, which had been kept in a shoe box by a businessman.
Rome police tracked the sculpture down to the businessman's apartment in Pomezia, a town south of the capital.
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Topic: PHOTO - on December 31, 2009 at 9:52:00 AM CET
Stunning Fireworks Photos
It is a most beautiful experience — the sounds and colors of fireworks in the silence and darkness of night. Words alone cannot describe such an experience. The sky comes alive with so many vibrant hues, starbursts, and showers of light along with ribbons of smoke, making us happy and awestruck. Photographing fireworks, however, is not an easy task.
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Topic: PHOTO - on December 31, 2009 at 9:51:00 AM CET
So verblüfften Forscher die Welt 2009 - Wissenschaftsfotos des Jahres
Ausladende Steinzeitschönheiten, clevere Kraken, zerstäubende Elementarteilchen - im Jahr 2009 haben Wissenschaftler phantastische Bilder aufgenommen.
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Topic: ART - on December 31, 2009 at 9:38:00 AM CET
Legalize medical graffiti
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Topic: ART - on December 30, 2009 at 11:37:00 AM CET
The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal
A documentary exploring the creation of a new art movement, that of graffiti removal. Often carried out subconsciously by the artists (who themselves are often manual workers for the municipality) the art sees the creation of shapes over existing graffiti as the artists creates new urban landscapes and images.
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Topic: ART - on December 30, 2009 at 11:27:00 AM CET
Banksy v Robbo (idiots guide)
Robbo was a pioneer of London graffiti in the mid-80’s. The piece below painted at the Regents canal (Camden, London) in 1985. People tend to respect great work (let’s gloss over Banksy Ikea debacle as it was Croydon), and as such the piece has remained for all of these last 25 years
timesonline.co.uk cakeheadlovesevil.wordpress.com on Flickr old shit
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Topic: FUN - on December 25, 2009 at 11:02:00 AM CET
A Real Life Russel From Pixar's 'Up'
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Topic: STRANGE - on December 25, 2009 at 11:01:00 AM CET
Trainer dies in accident at Killer Whale park in Tenerife
A 29 year old trainer at the Orca Ocean show at the Loro Parque in Tenerife, named with the initials A.M. died in an accident during training with the killer whales on Thursday morning.
It happened during ‘playtime’ between shows at the park, and it’s thought that death was caused by drowning, given that the man was under the water for several minutes.
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Topic: History - on December 24, 2009 at 10:21:00 AM CET
Mega-savant Kim Peek "Rain Man" dies
Kim Peek, one of Utah's most celebrated and unusual citizens, died Saturday at the age of 58 from an apparent heart attack.
Kim first leapt into the national and then international spotlight 21 years ago when he was acknowledged as one of the primary inspirations for Dustin Hoffman's character in that year's hit movie, "Rain Man," about a savant.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on December 24, 2009 at 10:18:00 AM CET
The Playboy Interview: Marshall McLuhan
In 1961, the name of Marshall McLuhan was unknown to everyone but his English students at the University of Toronto — and a coterie of academic admirers who followed his abstruse articles in small-circulation quarterlies. But then came two remarkable books — The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962) and Understanding Media (1964) — and the graying professor from Canada’s western hinterlands soon found himself characterized by the San Francisco Chronicle as “the hottest academic property around.” He has since won a world-wide following for his brilliant — and frequently baffling — theories about the impact of the media on man; and his name has entered the French language as mucluhanisme, a synonym for the world of pop culture.
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