Vandals dyed the Trevi fountain red in protest of some issue over the city's film festival.
Trading satellites for substance Let spectators pay their way We'll invade the Trevi Fountain Now that everyone must pay Mama and babies mother tragedy Babies mothers tragedy
Perez Hilton highlighted a song/performance by Tori Amos about Lindsey Lohan. Brilliant.
When I was 21 do you think I had a bag of cocaine in my car?
If I did - if I did You’d never know it because it would have been hidden I’m not stupid. But why are so many 21-year old millionaires so stupid? Stupid and cute. But stupid - I don’t know.
Let’s just say When I was 26 (or seven - or eight) And I was a billionairess What would I have done? Many naughty things. Many, many, many naughty things. But I would have had a DRIVER!
CRACKED.com - 8 Important Lessons Learned from '80s Cartoons
Topic: Miscellaneous
8:54 pm EDT, Jul 28, 2007
CARTOON: Popeye LESSON: Spinach is good for you. Sure, it doesn’t taste as good as candy, ice cream or opium, but it’s full of essential vitamins and minerals that’ll make your muscles explode like battleship cannons. If you want to triumph over the bullying Blutos of the world and win the affections of your own lovely, leggy Olive Oyl, pound a can of spinach at least once a day. Or put it in your corncob pipe and smoke it, like everybody’s favorite ornery, mumbling sailorman. Toot toot! How it affected us as adults: You only need to look at the steroid scandal rocking Major League Baseball to see that Popeye raised a generation that is willing to use performance enhancers. Also, it should be pointed out that Olive Oyl was the first anorexic sex symbol.
Frank Lloyd Wright's Duncan House ready for visitors
Topic: Miscellaneous
8:50 pm EDT, Jun 17, 2007
Built in a Lisle, Ill., in 1957 for Donald and Elizabeth Duncan, the Duncan House was deconstructed in 2004 and reassembled over the past 12 months near Acme in Westmoreland County as part of Polymath Park Resort. The retreat also includes two homes by Wright apprentice Peter Berndtson -- the Balter House and the Blum House, both built in the 1960s for Pittsburgh businessmen.
Marketplace: We need a 'Last Chance Mortgage' fund
Topic: Miscellaneous
11:51 pm EDT, Jun 14, 2007
Once we get past stories about subprime mortgages and whether or not rising interest rates will sink real estate even lower, is there a way to bring the market back? Commentator John Vogel has a plan.
Why 'Pirates of the Caribbean' Is the New 'Star Wars' - Moviefone
Topic: Miscellaneous
9:30 pm EDT, Jun 10, 2007
A 12 point presentation on the similarities between the Pirates and Star Wars (original!) trilogies. Of course we could go back to Hero of a Thousand Faces, but... clever.
Summary of their points:
* Jack == Han (swaggering wildcard) * Will == Luke (simple honest hero) * Elizabeth == Leia * Female courted by and drawn in both * Movie Three starts with an improbable rescue of wildcard ... etc.
Baynham & Tyers Innovation Business Consultants, Product Design, Concept Creation, Problem Solving for Small, Medium and Large businesses, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Topic: Miscellaneous
9:13 pm EDT, Jun 8, 2007
Baynham & Tyers offers an advertising service using a new type of advertising technique: Marketing Virals. In short, these are small creative videos which can be easily downloaded and emailed and therefore reach a very large global audience incredibly quickly. For more information see Marketing Virals.
As undergraduates we completed a project that attracted 100,000 downloads in the first weekend, and a projected audience of 5,000,000.
Amazing videos of Rube Goldberg-like contraptions. Every transition makes me happy.
This 40 story tall tower just outside Seville, Spain is actually a new solar thermal power plant. Operated by Sol�car Energ�a, the facility uses 600 mirrors on the ground to tightly focus the sun's rays on water pipes at the top of the tower. The heat converts the water into steam that drive turbines to generate electricity. It's the photo of the reflected solar rays hitting the tower that really impresses me though.
