“Think your job sucks? Well, consider yourself lucky to be pushing that pencil, or even performing the odd menial, mildly degrading task or two. You could have been a Viking Egg-Collector in Scotland circa the year 900, where you probably would have died long before you ever got promoted to Viking Egg-Manager. Or you could have been a factory worker in China, you know, last year.”
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BAGHDAD, IRAQ – MAY 20: An Iraqi man moves religious books out of Imam al-Mahdi Shiite mosque after a car bomb exploded in front of the holy building in Saadiya neighbourhood on May 20, 2005 in Baghdad, Iraq. The blast killed two children wounding their mother and 6 others and is the latest in a series targeting places of worship.
bron: Booklover
Read MoreThe Valparaiso Cerro Abajo Race is a legendary urban bike race and is more extreme than skydiving out of an exploding F-18 piloted by Charlie Sheen – while chugging a 2 liter of Mountain Dew. The rider must brave jumps, stray dogs, and flights of stairs along the steep downhill path.”
bron: Gadling.com
VCA 2010 RACE RUN from changoman on Vimeo.
Read MoreUit de koker van het vermaarde MIT Media Lab en uitgelicht door Curiosity Counts:
The Junkyard Jumbotron lets you take a bunch of random displays and instantly stitch them together into a large, virtual display, simply by taking a photograph of them. It works with laptops, smartphones, tablets — anything that runs a web browser. It also highlights a new way of connecting a large number of heterogenous devices to each other in the field, on an ad-hoc basis.
Junkyard Jumbotron from chris csik on Vimeo.
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