Exclusive: I Helped Richard Heene Plan a Balloon Hoax - Boy in the balloon - Gawker
For the first time, 25-year-old researcher Robert Thomas reveals to Gawker how earlier this year he and Richard Heene drew up a master plan to generate a massive media controversy using a weather balloon. To get famous, of course.
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New York Burlesque Festival Lives Up to Its Potential - Asylum.com
The seventh annual New York Burlesque Festival took place last weekend, and we couldn't help but take part in the glitter and glam that was the Saturday Spectacular at B.B. King's in Times Square.
(tags: Photography events NYC)
The Fake Shack (or the Shack Burger at Home) [...]
"Don't Talk to the Police" by Professor James Duane
One of the best talk I heard, ever, Pr. James Duane presents arguments why you should -never- talk to the police. Then Police Officer George Bruch confirms everything Pr. Duane said. Really worth a bit less than an hour of your time.
(tags: laws lecture psychology)
Concept Art That [...]
Mystery Google returns other people's search results - Telegraph
The site – www.mysterygoogle.com – says that “you get what the person before you searched for”.
In practice this means you get, to all intents and purposes, entirely random search results. A search for “Benjamin Franklin” brought back the Google search page for “Tengo mucha hambre” – Spanish [...]
Essay - The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate - NYTimes.com
The troubled collider is being sabotaged by its own future. A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward [...]
Flickr: Galerie de thinkretail
(tags: retail memoire marketing design architecture experientiel emotions)
YouTube - アホな走り集
There's no word to descrive this really. Except funny. and a great soundtrack.
(tags: humor video)
Lufthansa MySkyStatus™
Because we always need more. more more more. At least I won't have to call my parents anymore every time I land somewhere!
While you're in the air, MySkyStatus [...]
Announcement | Nobels fredspris
(tags: news politics freedom peace)
Peace Nobel Prize 2009 goes to Obama
“for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”
(tags: history news politics freedom)
FACTBOX-Barack Obama wins the Nobel Peace prize | Reuters
U.S. President Barack Obama, 48, won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Peace on Friday.
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Photographing New York Store Fronts | Newsweek Smart Business | Newsweek.com
More than half of American workers are employed by nearly 30 million small businesses, accroding to the US Small Business Administration. But mom-and-pop shops are increasingly under pressure from the harsh economy and from big box stores. The supplanting of America's small businesses is the [...]
BBC NEWS | Europe | Berlusconi's shield dented by ruling
No one is above the law, not even a prime minister.
That is the conclusion of one of the most eagerly awaited court decisions in recent Italian history.
The country's Constitutional Court has ruled that Silvio Berlusconi and three other people in public life - the president of [...]
Graphic Presentation : un album sur Flickr
Some pages from Willard Cope Brinton's second book (1939), which is about graphic design and visualization.
(tags: visualization design flickr graphics infographics information data)
United States Gross National Happiness on Facebook
Millions of Facebook users every day share their status with their friends, acquaintances and the public in general. These updates are tiny [...]
