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Sandmannchen – Germany’s favourite TV character....

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:15:22 +0000

Sandmannchen – Germany’s favourite TV character. Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

The citizens of the German Democratic Republic used to habitually tune into West German TV despite the risk of being caught doing so. But once a day at 7pm, millions adjusted their sets to receive the East German channel DDR 1 for the latest exploits of a cartoon character who has become a national cultural icon, uniting East and West Germans like little else.

(via The Sandmannchen, Germany’s cutest communist, turns 50 | World news | The Guardian

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Sign the petition to the Prime Minister to abolish the new Digital Economy Bill’s ‘three...

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:39:27 +0000

Sign the petition to the Prime Minister to abolish the new Digital Economy Bill’s ‘three...

7 / 13 The shuttle’s payload bay, vertical stabiliser,...

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:28:07 +0000

7 / 13 The shuttle’s payload bay, vertical stabiliser, orbital manoeuvring system (OMS) pods and docking mechanism with Earth in the background Photograph: NASA (via Spacewalkers work on the international space station | Science | guardian.co.uk )

Large Hadron Collider ready to restart - The Big Picture -...

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:30:29 +0000

Large Hadron Collider ready to restart - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Closing of the 30-inch-thick, 430 ton L3 door on the I side, ALICE experiment, on June 11th, 2008. (Mona Schweizer, © CERN) #

“This image, from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows...

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:05:12 +0000

“This image, from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows boulders that have rolled downhill to the bottom of the 45 kilometer-wide Rutherford crater.

This hi-res image is 510 meters across. See the big rock at the top, left of center? The one casting a long shadow? That’s about the size of my yard, and I don’t have a particularly large piece of property. Some of the rocks in this image are smaller than a car.”

(via Exquisite rubble | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine)

Photographs of residents in their tiny flats in Hong...

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:34:43 +0000

Photographs of residents in their tiny flats in Hong Kong’s oldest public housing estate - Boing Boing

Michael Wolf took 100 photos of people living in Hong Kong’s oldest public housing estate. Each flat is 100 square feet. Almost every room has the same kind of metal bunk bed. They almost all have a TV, electric fan, and rice cooker.

Atlantis Engines…or Mickey Mouse Goes to Space - Space...

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:23:07 +0000

Atlantis Engines…or Mickey Mouse Goes to Space - Space Shuttle Atlantis - Gizmodo

What if Earth had rings like Saturn? | forgetomori

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:16:24 +0000

What if Earth had rings like Saturn? | forgetomori

zoomar: colorlessgreenideas: (via sci-tech antiques) 無色の緑のアイデア...

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:06:10 +0000

zoomar:

colorlessgreenideas:

(via sci-tech antiques)

無色の緑のアイデア colorless green ideas

This is Photobomb: Photojackers of the World Unite! » Be At...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:22:10 +0000

This is Photobomb: Photojackers of the World Unite! » Be At Your Best, Men.

Origami hats for the faces on the money - Boing Boing

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:20:41 +0000

Origami hats for the faces on the money - Boing Boing

Pale Is The New Tan: One of the things wrong with...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:28:32 +0000

Pale Is The New Tan: One of the things wrong with bodybuilding….the fake tans

English Russia » Space things

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:45:48 +0000

English Russia » Space things

NEWSWEEK: NEW THOUGHT LEADERS First of all, thanks for singling...

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:36:05 +0000

NEWSWEEK: NEW THOUGHT LEADERS

First of all, thanks for singling me out as the one human being who has done more than anyone else to shape life on our planet over the past decade. I definitely deserve it. I’ve done many amazing things in the last 10 years, but I think the best single thing I’ve done is to get people to stop thinking about computers and the Internet as weird, complicated things for techies. Thanks to me, computers and the Web are omnipresent in our lives and easy to use. You no longer “go online”—you’re always online. And you’re no longer chained to a clunky box while using the Web. Instead, you have a skinny glass-and-metal slice of magic called the iPhone. (Unless you use a BlackBerry or a Palm Pre, in which case I will pray for your soul.) Of course, I’ve also dramatically changed the music industry. Music used to be sold in quaint little places called “music stores,” shipped on discs, and controlled by record labels. Now it’s sold by a software company (Apple), shipped as digital bits, and controlled by me. Movies are headed that way, too, and soon I’ll be running that business as well. Publishing: you’re next. In our brave new world, whoever controls the devices and the distribution is king. That’s why millions of fanboys see me not as a mere CEO, but as a Silicon Jesus who has come to Earth to restore a sense of childlike wonder to their lives. I can’t say I disagree.

(via Steve Jobs by Fake Jobs – Influencers - Newsweek 2010)

image: PAUL SAKUMA / AP

On the shoreline - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:03:27 +0000

On the shoreline - The Big Picture - Boston.com

English Russia » Coalmine Insight

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:58:42 +0000

English Russia » Coalmine Insight

World War 2 Japanese Super-Submarine Found In Hawaii - Japanese...

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:45:33 +0000

World War 2 Japanese Super-Submarine Found In Hawaii - Japanese Super-Sub - Gizmodo

According to Dr Hans Van Tillburg, “[the I-201 submarine] was nothing like anybody had in the Second World War. It had a streamlined body and conning tower and retractable gun.” They just found it in Hawaii.

Smithfield, London (via sixth land)

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:34:55 +0000

Smithfield, London (via sixth land)

Golden arch (via sixth land) ...

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:34:36 +0000

Golden arch (via sixth land)

Hey, preacher – leave those kids alone | Ariane Sherine |...

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:49:17 +0000

Hey, preacher – leave those kids alone | Ariane Sherine | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

A poster from the atheist billboard campaign. Photograph: Public Domain