Monthly Archives: March 2006

Jean de La Fontaine

When I was a little girl I had collection of books with fables and my favourite part was the illustrations. They were beautiful. That’s how I remember of Jean de La Fontaine and Aesop. Now I’m trying to read them … Continue reading

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My Death Space

That’s morbid: MyDeathSpace.com – They may be gone, but they’ll never be forgotten. Only three things are certain in life. MySpace, Taxes, and Death. If you have a MySpace account and you die, this is where you will end up. … Continue reading

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The Style Contest

Finally: The Style Contest for Movable Type, Typepad and LiveJournal! Cool! I’m not a webdesigner, so when I had some problems with the CSS of my old template, only in the dirty IE, I got crazy. Since I couldn’t find … Continue reading

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Religious Affiliation of Film Directors

Ok, fast: what is your favorite director? And his/her religion? I don’t like films about religion, but I don’t care about the religious affiliation of movie directors, if this doesn’t influence the film in general. Does anyone care about it? … Continue reading

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Fake Gay News

Christian Meteorologists Declare War on Rainbows. A group of conservative Christian meteorologists today announced plans to eliminate rainbows from the earth’s atmosphere. At a press conference following a White House luncheon with President Bush, lead scientist Bret Banger told reporters … Continue reading

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Apple: Heroes, Villains and Quotes

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. A photo gallery by Wired of the history of Apple computers through Heroes and Villains.The world’s most lickable computer company has seen its share of good guys and bad guys during its 30-year … Continue reading

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Best ever map of the early universe revealed

Astronomy lovers and curious people must read this New Scientist article: Best ever map of the early universe revealed. On Thursday, the WMAP team revealed the best map ever drawn of microwaves from the early universe, showing variations in the … Continue reading

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Bento Windows & Bento Art

That is the best version of Windows that I ever saw! I bet it works much better than the “normal” version; if it doesn’t work at leat you can eat it. There are more pictures of that Windows laptop bento … Continue reading

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Colours like no other

Do you remember the pictures of 250,000 multi-coloured ‘superballs’ bouncing down the streets of San Francisco for a Sony Bravia commercial, with the slogan “Colour like no other”? Well, I didn’t have any news about the TV commercial, until this … Continue reading

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French Stuff

A collection of links of vintage French design in postcards, posters and publications. Affiche Francaise: French original vintage posters. Many beautiful images divided per categories: movies, drinks, food, products, entertainment, travels, cycles, cars, sport, airplanes and miscellaneous. (via Martin Klasch) … Continue reading

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