Topic: ART - on October 25, 2008 at 11:59:00 AM CEST
40+ Street artists You Should Know Besides Banksy
Everyone knows who Banksy is-- but the international streetart community has hundreds of other great artists that deserve your attention. Here's a selection of the very best.
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Topic: ART - on October 24, 2008 at 12:02:00 PM CEST
Video: Banksy's pet shop: How much is that chicken nugget in the window?
A village pet shop in New York, the latest installation by British street artist Bansky, leaves locals intrigued.
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Topic: SPORT - on October 24, 2008 at 11:51:00 AM CEST
Dildo Delay at Hockey Game
Yes, you read that title correctly. An Ice Hockey game in Sweden’s second-tier professional league was delayed several times due to the fans littering the ice with dildos. The organized taunting of an opposing player also included banners and a large inflatable penis. Ahead of Tuesday’s match against Leksand, the website for AIK’s unofficial supporter group had instructed fans to bring dildos to the match to remind defenseman Jan Huokko of the sex scandal which plagued him earlier in the year.
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Topic: NEWS - on October 24, 2008 at 11:48:00 AM CEST
DUBAI IS NUTS!!!
Dubai is said to currently have 15-25% of all the world's cranes.
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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 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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Topic: DRUGS - on October 22, 2008 at 5:32:00 PM CEST
Heroin addict elephant can never go home
An elephant once addicted to heroin-laced bananas has kicked the habit - but in the process become unfit for the wild.
The four-year-old bull elephant, referred to alternately as "Big Brother" or "Xiguang", went through a lengthy rehab course.
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Topic: SPY - on October 22, 2008 at 5:22:00 PM CEST
Iran arrests pigeons for spying
In what could see a major escalation of tension between Iran and the West, Iranian security forces have announced that they have arrested two pigeons for spying.
The two pigeons were detained in Natanz, near Iran's uranium enrichment facility – one of the major sources of the diplomatic chill between Tehran and Western governments.
metro.co.uk afp.google.com telegraph.co.uk warandgame.blogspot.com thecourier.co.uk
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