Category: Culture
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Thrilled, Thriller
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Don’t sleep at the tatoo parlour
Belgian Kimberley Vlaeminck, 18, went to a tattoo parlor and asked for 3 tattooed stars. But, she fell asleep and woke up with 56 black stars. In a sense, this is nice, but she seems pissed off. Update on 24-June: It appears that after some time and media pressure, Kimberley admitted that this was not…
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Summer reading: Top 100 English novels
Summer: m.noun /ˈsʌmə(ɹ)/ (plural summers) Long period of time that millions of English-seaking people choose to replace watching silly TV reality shows by reading silly thick paper printed words selected first for their total lack of requirement of brain participation during the operation known as reading. Let’s contribute to the improvement of knowledge and culture…
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Cooking in text, pictures and video
Cooking recipes were the excuse for millions of Internet users (Ed: maybe not millions) to write down the advice of their grand-mothers, quite often with a desperating lack of inspiration. But I just found a couple of nice web sites that could be checked as much for their recipes as for the pictures [1] or…
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The largest model railway in the world
YouTube link I am a great fan of miniature model railways. But this one is all railways, locomotive, trains geeks want. It’s ok for kids as well as adults.
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Schubert-Liszt concert
Free ad for friends in concert in Paris in a few weeks. Schubert Concert on Sunday 24 May 2009 @ 12h30.
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Computer skills
From GraphJam.
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Stop-motion pig and wolf
This is so nice: A Stop-motion video that is very well done, funny. YouTube link
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Aztec human sacrifice and cannibalism
An advanced civilisation if there was one, Aztecs lived in Central America from IXth Century to XVth Century (when their decline was essentially precipitated by their encounter with the Spanish conquistadores). Many facets of this civilisation stay unknown principally because they were wiped out wy the first European colonizers. But one aspect stayed deep in…