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Mission Eternity Project

Editor @ November 29, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Spanish telecom giant Telefonica saves etoy.CORPORATION from bankruptcy and brings etoy’s mission to the next level.
As president Francisco Serrano, announced today at Barcelona Contemporary Art Museum (MACBA): etoy wins the first prize of the VIDA AWARDS created by Fundación Telefónica to foster artistic creation based on new technologies and artificial life.
Excerpt from the jury statement:
etoy […]

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Graffiti Research Lab a Roma!

Editor @ November 28, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Enzimi 2007 presenta per la prima volta in Italia il gruppo di media artists Graffiti Research Lab (G.R.L.) da New York: un progetto di Digicult a cura di Marco Mancuso. La sera del 1 Dicembre 2007, i Graffiti Research Lab si muoveranno (su una vecchia Fiat 500 ricoperta di led luminosi) nell’area del quartiere Testaccio, […]

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LOVE AT FIRST BARK

Ilari Valbonesi @ November 27, 2007 # No Comment Yet

P. Selvakumar, a 33-year-old farm labourer from the southern state of Tamil Nadu, who believed he had been cursed for stoning to death two dogs, has atoned for his sin by marrying another dog in a traditional Hindu wedding ceremony.
The four-year-old stray bitch was bathed and processed to his village temple dressed in an […]

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Speechless: Support the Writers Strike

Luca @ November 27, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Sean Penn

Eva Longoria & Nicolette Sheridan
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3D Chinese Moon

Ilari Valbonesi @ November 27, 2007 # No Comment Yet

The Moon Goddess
Waiting, she finds her silk stockings
soaked with the dew drops
glistening on the marble steps.
Finally, she is moving
to let the crystal-woven curtain fall
when she casts one more glance
at the glamorous autumn moon.
Li Bai, aka Li Po (701-762)

China published its first moon image sent back by its lunar probe Chang’e-1, named after a mythical Chinese […]

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Rare South China tiger cub born at Laohu Valley

Ilari Valbonesi @ November 26, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Ms Li Quan, founder of Save China’s Tigers today announced that a male South China tiger cub (Chinese:華南虎, Panthera tigris amoyensis) was born at Laohu Valley Reserve, Free State, South Africa at 23:30, November 23rd 2007.
It is truly a historic event, because it is the first time that a South China Tiger […]

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The Importance of Design

Luca @ November 25, 2007 # No Comment Yet

David H. Petraus, general of the U.S. Army in Iraq, released last december a research called Counterinsurgency. The book is aboout 300 pages and after being a hit in the web, now some editors printed it and sold it for 15$.
Chapter four is entitled “The Importance of Campaign Design” and surprised me to find […]

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“I’m Feeling Lucky” costs $110 million

Luca @ November 24, 2007 # No Comment Yet

The “I’m Feeling Lucky” button is the number 1 promotion vessel of the Google float.
It costs too much to the company to not agree with the analyses of Jacob Nielsen at the end of the post.
Brendan Newnam for Marketplace decided to find out why Google decide to maintain his “I’m Feeling Lucky” button, that forwarding […]

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