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Blogger now offers the ability to present blog's content in several new and exciting ways. These new views use the latest in web technology, including AJAX, HTML5 and CSS3
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• Sidebar: Optimized for quick reading and browsing.

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• Timeslide: This view breaks the blog content down into three different areas.

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Google +1 Button: Your Recommendations in Search Results

Google introduces the +1 button, which lets you recommend things to your friends, contacts and others through your Google Profile



The +1 button is a shorthand for "this is pretty cool" or "you should check this out." Click +1 to publicly give something your stamp of approval. Your +1's can help friends, contacts and others find the best stuff when they search.

More info: Official Google Blog: +1’s: the right recommendations right when you want them—in your search results

How to Stock an Emergency Go Kit

How to Stock an Emergency Go Kit on Howcast

• Transcript

If you and your family are forced to evacuate quickly, you won’t have time gather supplies. With an emergency go kit, you can be ready to go out the door when a problem arises.

You Will Need

• Food
• Water
• Essential items
• Important documents
• Sturdy case

Step 1: Keep a supply of food and water

Keep a 3-day supply of water and easy-to-prepare, nonperishable food stocked in your go kit. Figure on 1 gallon of water per person per day.

Include a can opener if you have canned food.

Step 2: Pack a first aid kit

Pack a first-aid kit with your emergency supplies.

Include a spare pair of prescription glasses and a supply of any prescription medications you are taking.

Step 3: Pack a flashlight

Be prepared for power outages and nighttime evacuations by packing a flashlight with extra batteries in the kit.

Step 4: Carry a radio

Carry a battery-powered or hand-crank radio.

Get an NOAA weather radio to monitor weather conditions.

Step 5: Have personal sanitation items

Have moist towelettes and garbage bags in your kit for personal sanitation needs.

Step 6: Stock personal items

Stock your kit with a whistle, dust masks, extra house and car keys, cash, blankets, sleeping bags, cell phone charges, and local maps.

Step 7: Bring important documents

Pack copies of any important documents you might need, such as a medication list, medical information, the lease or deed to your home, passports, birth certificates, and insurance policies.

Step 8: Use a good container

Stay organized and protect your emergency supplies by keeping them in a sturdy container that is easy to carry like a suitcase with wheels, and you’ll be prepared for virtually any emergency.

Source: Howcast

Festo's Artificial SmartBird

SmartBird is an ultralight but powerful flight model with excellent aerodynamic qualities and extreme agility. With SmartBird, Festo has succeeded in deciphering the flight of birds - one of the oldest dreams of humankind.

Herring gull. Photo credit: bruce89

This bionic technology-bearer, which is inspired by the herring gull, can start, fly and land autonomously -- with no additional drive mechanism. Its wings not only beat up and down, but also twist at specific angles. This is made possible by an active articulated torsional drive unit, which in combination with a complex control system attains an unprecedented level of efficiency in flight operation. Festo has thus succeeded for the first time in creating an energy-efficient technical adaptation of this model from nature.



Source: Festo

Write by Hand on Your Computer

Pilothandwriting.com turns your handwriting into a digital font and sends handwritten e-mails to your friends.

Earth Hour

Earth Hourby ~alikadevero

Earth Hour is a global event organized by WWF and is held on the last Saturday of March annually, asking households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and other electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change. 


Earth Hour 2011 will take place on March 26, 2011 from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., at participants' respective local time.
- wiki 






earthhour.org

Earth Hourby ~miniraindrop

earth hour.by ~jenmarie123

Installation Art by Jennifer Steinkamp

Jennifer Steinkamp (born 1958) is an American installation artist who works with video and new media in order to explore ideas about architectural space, motion, and perception.






Animated tree by Jennifer Steinkamp
"This mesmerizing tree twists and sways in an undetected wind as it grows and sheds leaves and flowers."

Steinkamp uses digital projection to transform architectural space, providing the viewer with a synaesthetic experience, often working in collaboration with musicians Andrew Bucksbarg and Jimmy Johnson to integrate sound into her work. While her career began with brightly colored abstract projections, since 2003 she has increasingly incorporated nature-based imagery into her work — gnarled trees that twist, turn, and change seasons; rooms filled with undulating strands of flowers. In doing so she has brought digital art into the mainstream of contemporary art. Her use of vernacular imagery and embrace of beauty result in mesmerizing environments that reference the sublime, as did the Hudson River School painters. Like her art historical precedents, Steinkamp conveys the magnitude and power of nature — a nature that is not always benign. Premature, a series first displayed in 2010, shifts the focus of Steinkamp's subject to life and death. She explores this topic with projections of slithering veins and arteries that evoke the eerie inspiration of her work. Her work has the power to communicate to a broader public, to “convert” a more traditional art audience, familiar with the use of computer graphics for video games but unaware of other creative applications.

Steinkamp has exhibited her work internationally in a variety of venues and contexts, but her work is still difficult to categorize. She is often described as a video artist although her work is not photo or video-based; her recent inclusion in the California Video exhibition at the Getty Museum suggests that her connection to the genre is unlikely to change. Interestingly, the media art world has never embraced Steinkamp as one of their own, since her work is not technically interactive and she uses the computer not as a tool to comment on technology, but rather one to create imagery.

In 2008, Steinkamp was selected as the United States representative in the 11th International Cairo Biennale. For Valentino's 2010 Spring/Summer couture show featured projections of Steinkamp's trees against the walls of the runway. In 2011 Jennifer Steinkamp will exhibit in Prospect. 2 New Orleans, the second biennial of Prospect New Orleans curated by Dan Cameron.

Source: wiki 

Around the world in 80 secondes and 2000 pictures

Around the world in 80 seconds.





Around the world in 80 seconds. Directed by Romain Pergeaux and Alex Profit. A project done in only 3 weeks. This route is a tribute to the famous Jules Verne's book "Le tour du monde en 80 jours". The making of the video, pictures of the trip and an interview of Alex Profit can be seen at www.tourdumonde80.fr
The tour included stops in London - Cairo - Mumbay - Hong Kong - Tokyo - San Francisco - New York - London.


Around the world in 2000 pictures.

Around the world in 2000 pictures. Directed by Alex Profit. After 'Le tour du monde en 80 secondes', his second project takes us though Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, St. Petersbourg, Shanghai, Tokyo, New york and London. Done in only 24 days.

Amazing Fox Snow Dive

via youtube.com

A red fox listens out for mice scurrying six feet beneath the snow before diving head first into the drift to snap up its prey.

Penguin Leap of Faith

via youtube.com

Penguin takes death defying jump at boulders beach, South Africa.

Lego Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game

Lego Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game is an upcoming video game in the Lego video game franchise, developed by Traveller's Tales and published by Disney Interactive Studios. Due for release in May 2011 to coincide with the release of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the game is based on the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise and its storyline covers all four films. The game will be available on the Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation Portable and Microsoft Windows.

Overview

The game will span the stories of the first three films (The Curse of the Black Pearl, Dead Man's Chest and At World's End), as well as the fourth film (On Stranger Tides) and will feature over 70 characters from the franchise. The game will also feature its flagship drop-in, drop-out co-op gameplay mechanic.

The 3DS version will use the StreetPass feature to activate sword fights.

Source: wiki

LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game - Teaser Trailer

Pirates LEGO Game Official UK Extended Trailer

Pirates Toys Launch with Ian McShane aka Blackbeard 

Links: 

Official Site
Disney Interactive Studios Facebook Page

More Movies, Disney and Pirates

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Videos

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Trailers







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Related links:

Official Site: http://disney.com/pirates
The Official Pirates of the Caribbean YouTube Channel
Pirates of the Caribbean Official Facebook Page
Piratas del Caribe Facebook Page
Captain Jack Sparrow Facebook Page
Disney Movies Facebook Page
Walt Disney Pictures Official Twitter Page

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Alps / Winter Photography

Alps/Winter photography by Akos Major

(6 photographs)

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