Duvet-Dayz.com: use this bar code to access our RSS feeds and posts on your mobile phone
Archive for the 'Life' Category
Photography: Google LIFE photo archive
Google has made large parts of the LIFE photography archive available within its image search. There are many high resolution images included since the American Civil war and the first LIFE Magazine. You can also search this archive by adding “source:life” in the normal Google image search.
Continue reading…
Movie: New Star Trek Trailer
New feast for trekkies is coming with a new Star Trek movie to hit the theaters next May. And from the trailer(s) (see below) it looks like this one might become one of the best ever.
Continue reading…
The Time Machine: An Interactive YouTube Adventure
The first interactive video game created with YouTube’s new Annotation feature.
At the end of each episode viewers can take a decision and are branched to different follow up videos. The plot is three friends traveling with a time machine (yes we know). So far there are 9 videos online.
Continue reading…
Humor: Monty Python YouTube Channel
Finally some of the greatest Monty Python sketches have been made available in high quality from the source.
So far there are 24 videos including “Always look on the bright side …”, “Lumberjack Song”, “Job Interview”, “Four Yorkshiremen”, “Black Knight” and “Killer Rabbit” to name a few.
Guys, you can do better, where’s the “Spanish Inquisition”, “The Funniest Joke” and all the other great ones you’ve done!
Continue reading…
Data-Visualization: Ensuring the Future of Food
A Sims style data-visualization by the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery explaining some of the complex networks around how food arrives on tables in Japan and the food industry.
Worth watching for the graphics alone.
Continue reading…
Animation: Burn-E
A great teaser for Pixar’s new DVD available from End of January 2009.
Like always from Pixar animation at its best.
Continue reading…
The 2007 Mafia Inc. Balance Sheet
It looks like it was another very good year for Mafia Inc. in Italy.
With corruption and bribery on the rise almost everywhere the Neo-Liberals got a foot in the door and with the worldwide financial crisis 2008 might turn out to become even better.
With the Neo-Liberal deregulations and the loss of business ethics, new business practices that were just a few years ago considered as criminal and prosecuted as such together with the vacuum created by the loss of values, no wonder bribery and corruption is on the rise, and everybody seems to be doing it not necessarily because they want so, but because they are forced to.
Single persons to get a favor or place someone on an important position, companies to get contracts, and governments on a really, really big scale. And who would be surprised that at the same time these governments have…
Continue reading…
Gadgets: Sunshine wallsticker
Great wallsticker from snoebi. Size varies up to 2 meter.
Available from German Online Shop a-better-tomorrow for about EUR 30.
Continue reading…
Travel: Historic tours of NZ Northland and Angkor Wat in 1930/40s
Two film documents of travel 70-80 years ago from the Travel Film Archive (link below) that has many other history film documents from places around the world.
The first one is a tour of the ancient Cambodian temples of Angkor Wat and Bayon in the 1930s. If you recently had a chance to visit these wonders of the world, you will realize from watching the film how much this place has deteriorated within about 80 years.
The second film (in color) shows you around the New Zealand Northland popular with many tourists touring from Auckland. Many places there are now…
Continue reading…
Cartoon: Presidential Cheat Codes
Great idea from LukeSurl.com.
Continue reading…
