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links for 2007-05-31

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Portfolio GKf Fotografen :: Vesselina Nikolaeva :: nina

(tags: nina photography)
Welcome To Vesselina Nikolaeva’s Photography - Documentary Photography Projects - Exhibitions

I photograph disappearing cultures and the collective nostalgia of societies, their sense of loss and alienation, and their coping mechanisms with globalization. My interest is in the blind spots of societies.

(tags: photography documentary)
bxl.blog - blog collaboratif de plusieurs Bruxellois enthousiastes

Bruxelles n’est pas une gaufre. Bruxelles est un chou. Un chou qui couche après couche cache ses secrets. Au plus on l’effeuille jusqu’au coeur, au moins le coeur du Pentagone se livre ouvert.

(tags: blog bruxelles brussels)
14e Landelijke Amerikanistendag: Programma

Nina Todorova (Utrecht University), Women’s Desire in Sandra Cisneros’s Fiction.

(tags: nina todorova gender ethnicity utrecht netherlands chicana)

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links for 2007-05-30

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Overheard: Otherwise Known As the Super Ego

Teacher: Today we are going to learn about Sigmund Freud. Do you know who Sigmund Freud was?
Student: Was he on Oprah?

(tags: overheard funny)
Overheard in New York | Hell Is Other People with No Style

Queer: So, what happens to me if I’m gay?
Jesus-freak: You’re going to Hell in a hand basket!
Queer: Well, that hand basket better be fucking Prada, bitch!

(tags: overheard funny)
Strobist: The name’s Jarvis. Chase Jarvis

What is it? It’s advertising shooter Chase Jarvis’ kickin’ laptop “location shoot” case, and it has everything but missile launchers.

(tags: laptop harddisk case cardreader cool photography)
Wired Blogs - Google Maps Hits the Streets

He started with a panoramic view of the Golden Gate Bridge and moved throughout San Francisco using the street-level navigator. The new Google Maps product looks impressive and is remarkably easy to use.

(tags: google MAPS mapping googlemaps location visualization)
The Observer | Director Mike Figgis spent longer at LAX airport than intended

Unthinking and tired after a long flight, Mike replied: ‘I’m here to shoot a pilot.’ After five hours in an interrogation cell (yes, really), he finally made it into town.

(tags: airport humor security funny)

links for 2007-05-29

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1 - Rough Type: Bad ad fad - Heinz & User Generated Ads

But the entries are almost universally crappy, the contest is generating ill-will among some in the target audience, and the company is actually spending more than it would have if it had just hired an ad agency to put together a campaign.

(tags: web2.0 advertising ketchup heinz)

links for 2007-05-28

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Techdirt: Legal Gymnastics: It’s Okay To Circumvent DRM In Europe If It’s Circumventable

So, basically, you can’t try to circumvent DRM (that’s illegal!), but if you do, you’ve proven it to be ineffective, and therefore, you can circumvent it.

(tags: copyright law legal drm)
ffmpeg tutorial

when I decided to learn about ffmpeg, and in the process about how digital video and audio applications work, I decided to document the process and present it as a tutorial.

(tags: programming ffmpeg tutorial video howto transcode mpeg)
Caution: Some soft drinks may seriously harm your health - Independent Online Edition > Health

Research from a British university suggests a common preservative found in drinks such as Fanta and Pepsi Max has the ability to switch off vital parts of DNA. The problem can eventually lead to cirrhosis of the liver and degenerative diseases such as Par

(tags: health soda food drinks e211 sodium benzoate)
How Monica Goodling played the gender card. - By Emily Bazelon and Dahlia Lithwick - Slate Magazine

To be sure, plenty of twenty- and thirty- and eightysomethings refer to themselves and their friends as girls. Particularly when there are mojitos around. But they don’t often do so before the U.S. Congress.

(tags: slate gender feminism)

links for 2007-05-27

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1 - defective yeti: How To Trick A Girl

Go up to a girl and say “You are pretty.” Then, when she says “thanks,” say “yeah … pretty attractive!!”
Gets em every time.

(tags: girls pickup line)

links for 2007-05-25

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[ photoq ] Concert Beyonce ‘dieptepunt in de popfotografie’

op het moment dat alle fotografen verzameld waren bij de backstage ingang werd een uur vantevoren gezegd dat we in plaats van twee nummers een minuut(!) mochten fotograferen. Uiteindelijk blijken we veertig seconden gefotografeerd te hebben

(tags: fotografie photography concerts artists kapsones)
Freakonomics Blog » More Evidence of Cultural Bias in Testing

“She forgot her necklace,” the child answered.
“Well, yes, but what else?” her mother asked.
“She forgot her bracelet,” the child answered.
“Okay, anything else?” the mother queried.
The child thought for a minute. “Her tiara?”

(tags: testing bias princess funny)

links for 2007-05-24

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MyBedroomStudio

Welcome to My Bedroom Studio! Providing studio folks and musicians alike with a place to show off their room, have a nose at other people’s studios, compare kit, discuss production techniques, or just get something off their chest!

(tags: music studio recording gear)
Overheard Everywhere | In the Sense That I Don’t Know What He Did

Social science student: I don’t think of Che Guevara in the political sense. For me he’s only a pop icon.

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TV Links

lots of television series and movies

(tags: tv video streaming free Movies Shows)

links for 2007-05-23

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Overheard in the Office | Or the Sharpest Bulb in the Shed, for That Matter

Coworker #1: He’s not exactly the brightest knife in the drawer.

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