Topic: PHOTO - on October 18, 2009 at 10:34:00 AM CEST
New camera promises to capture your whole life
A camera you can wear as a pendant to record every moment of your life will soon be launched by a UK-based firm.
Originally invented to help jog the memories of people with Alzheimer's disease, it might one day be used by consumers to create "lifelogs" that archive their entire lives.
Worn on a cord around the neck, the camera takes pictures automatically as often as once every 30 seconds. It also uses an accelerometer and light sensors to snap an image when a person enters a new environment, and an infrared sensor to take one when it detects the body heat of a person in front of the wearer. It can fit 30,000 images onto its 1-gigabyte memory.
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Topic: WEB - on October 18, 2009 at 10:31:00 AM CEST
Jack Wolfskin eröffnet den Abmahn-Herbst!
Mit Jack Wolfskin vergreift sich wiedermal eine weltweit agierende und sich selbst für integer haltende Marke an den kleinsten und schwächsten Gliedern des Long Tail. Jack Wolfskin, dessen Logo eine Wolfstatze ziert, untersagt allen Anbietern von Pfoten(!)-Designs die Verwendung derselben, denn Jack Wolfskin sieht seine Markenrechte verletzt!
Lernen Anwälte und PR-Menschen eigentlich nichts aus den Vorgängen der Vergangenheit? Wiedermal sind Abmahnanwälte im Namen einer Marke unterwegs, um ihr den Garaus zu machen. Wiedermal riskiert man wegen fragwürdiger Markenschutzbemühungen einen PR-Gau und das Image einer wertvollen Marke.
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Topic: Green - on October 18, 2009 at 10:24:00 AM CEST
German Team Wins 2009 Solar Decathlon
Our team recently competed in the 2009 US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon. The Solar Decathlon is a 2-year competition that challenges university students from 20 US and international teams to design, build, and operate the most attractive and energy-efficient solar-powered house. Objective scores are based on comfort control, appliance performance, net-metering, and home entertainment. Subjective contest scores are determined by juries that weigh the engineering design, architectural design, as well as marketing and communication strategies. Team Germany took 1st place due to a large net production of electricity, while Team California claimed top honors in the Architecture contest. Minnesota won the engineering design section. However, looking beyond the contest winners, the main purpose of the event is to raise awareness about solar technology and sustainable design. As part of this campaign, products used in all 20 homes are listed on the DOE website. The most exciting aspect is that the construction and engineering documents and communication materials from all teams are open-sourced for anyone to use or modify!
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Topic: WERBUNG - on October 18, 2009 at 10:21:00 AM CEST
AdViews: A Digital Archive of Vintage Television Commercials
AdViews is a digital archive of thousands of vintage television commercials dating from the 1950s to the 1980s. These commercials were created or collected by the ad agency Benton & Bowles or its successor, D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B). Founded in 1929, Benton & Bowles was a New York advertising agency that merged with D'Arcy Masius McManus in 1985 to form DMB&B. Major clients included are Procter & Gamble, Kraft, Schick, Vicks, and Post, among others. Commercials will be added in phased batches over several months in 2009. The commercials are a part of the D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles Archives found at the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History in Duke University's Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.
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Topic: WERBUNG - on October 18, 2009 at 10:00:00 AM CEST
Mosselprom - Моссельпроме
Despite the fact that most of the promotional materials in the Soviet Union was a political advertisement or propaganda, and was a commercial advertising of goods and services. Moreover, in relatively high volumes. A number of advertising has been published in the country during the period of the NEP. However, in other periods of history some ads state enterprises was carried out continuously. Informal verbal methods of advertising company used primarily by private masters and "hack".
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 17, 2009 at 11:12:00 AM CEST
Vier Prozent der Weltbevölkerung kiffen
Haschisch ist ein weitverbreitetes Rauschmittel. Das ist zwar keine neue Erkenntnis, aber eine neue Studie belegt es besonders eindrücklich: Im Jahr 2006 haben weltweit 166 Millionen Menschen Cannabis konsumiert.
Stephen Gately, der kürzlich verstorbene Boyzone-Sänger, soll Cannabis geraucht haben. Auch Brad Pitt war angeblich dem Marihuana nicht abgeneigt. Und der Olympia-König Michael Phelps musste sich in diesem Jahr für drei Monate vom Schwimmbecken fernhalten, weil er beim Kiffen fotografiert und deshalb gesperrt wurde. Die Stars sind bei weitem nicht alleine: 166 Millionen Menschen weltweit kiffen. Das sind knapp vier Prozent der Weltbevölkerung.
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Topic: STRANGE - on October 17, 2009 at 11:11:00 AM CEST
Maultaschen-Urteil
Drakonischer Richterspruch für ein Bagatellvergehen: Nach 17 Jahren Betriebszugehörigkeit muss eine Altenpflegerin das Seniorenheim verlassen, weil sie ein paar Maultaschen gegessen hatte, anstatt sie als Essensrest zu entsorgen. Ein Ver.di-Vertreter sprach von einem "Schandurteil".
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Topic: FUN - on October 17, 2009 at 10:53:00 AM CEST
Nazis, Queens and the Spanish Inquisition: Monty Python Takes New York
Monty Python’s Flying Circus took to the stage Thursday night, a little grayer and minus (almost) the troupe’s one deceased player — but no slower on the draw, with shots aimed at each other and even the occasional adoring audience member.
The iconic (mostly) British comedy team collaborated on a borderline inexplicable sketch comedy series 40 years ago that featured gay lumberjacks, cheese shops that sold no cheese, pet shops that sold dead parrots and Cardinal Richelieu reining Spanish Inquisition terror on unsuspecting 20th-century Britons.
They remain as popular as ever and their story is the subject of a 6-hour documentary, Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer’s Cut), which premieres on the IFC channel this week.
wired.com ifc.com Monty Python Reunion Watch the Event on IFC.com 40th Anniversary Boxset Celebrating 400 Years of Monty Python (exklusiv bei Amazon.de)old shit
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on October 16, 2009 at 11:10:00 AM CEST
Sarah Silverman schlägt Vatikan-Verkauf vor
Den Hunger auf der Welt besiegen? Kein Problem, meint US-Komikerin Sarah Silverman und schlägt vor: Verkauft einfach den Vatikan! Ein Jesuitenpater findet die Idee gar nicht so schlecht.
Die US-Schauspielerin und Komikerin Sarah Silverman ist bekannt für derbe Sprüche. Kaum ein Tabu, das sie nicht bricht. Sonst macht die 38-Jährige bevorzugt Witze über Schwule, Schwarze, Juden oder Behinderte. Diesmal ist der Papst dran: Silverman schlägt ihm vor, aus dem Vatikan auszuziehen.
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Topic: Space - on October 16, 2009 at 11:01:00 AM CEST
Student sends camera into stratosphere
Geoff McCormack looked at projects where people had attached digital cameras to weather balloons and decided to take it a step further. Fortunately, Deakin University was supportive of his unusual final-year project.
I had always wanted to build something and attach it to a balloon to see where it went but had never found the time to work on it. I had seen pictures from projects overseas where people had attached digital cameras to weather balloons and I thought I'd take it a step further with a custom-designed data-logger and control system. Fortunately, Deakin University was supportive of my unusual final-year project.
smh.com.au Teens capture images of space with £56 camera and balloon
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Topic: SCIENCE - on October 16, 2009 at 10:56:00 AM CEST
First black hole for light created on Earth
An electromagnetic "black hole" that sucks in surrounding light has been built for the first time.
The device, which works at microwave frequencies, may soon be extended to trap visible light, leading to an entirely new way of harvesting solar energy to generate electricity.
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Topic: ART - on October 15, 2009 at 9:52:00 AM CEST
The Hitchhiker’s Guide Turns 30
On October 12, 1979, a novelization of a popular British radio series first saw publication. In the next 22 years, its author would become an icon of humorous geek literature, would write four sequels to it, and would, tragically, die of a heart attack at the age of 49.
wired.com telegraph.co.ukdailygalaxy.comWhat on earth is 42? old shit
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