TOKYO (Reuters) – Ever wondered about the political uses of a kiss, the kiss's changing status or legendary movie kisses? Do you find yourself needing to say the word in Albanian, Icelandic or even, perchance, Maori?
Fear not. "A Compendium of Kisses," the guide to everything oscular --...
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Polish Town of Swiebodzin Constructs World's Largest Jesus Statue
People all over the world look up to Jesus -- but none look up to him more than residents of the Polish town of Swiebodzin.
The small village is now home to the world's largest statue of Jesus Christ, which rises 115 feet...
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Queen's University Classics professor emeritus Ross Kilpatrick believes the Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, incorporates images inspired by the Roman poet Horace and Florentine poet Petrarch. The technique of taking a passage from literature and...
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First off, it's aimed at the 6900 series cards but runs fine on the 5800 too since there's not any major chipset difference except a few scaling and speed tweaks really, must say though for the 655mb size I was completely unimpressed with it, most of the old demos...
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Hot Apps will feature 5 of the hottest apps each week for the Windows Phone 7. In this episode Laura takes a look at:
Gaming
Health Care
Art
Movies
Shopping
Please leave suggestions for hot apps that should be featured in the comments section, thanks!
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Computer Generated Graphics (Desktop Wallpaper)
I would like an opinion on these Computer Generated images I created to use as Desktop Wallpapers. Is there any merit in persuing this Concept of Computer Generated Graphics.
Every one is free to copy and use these illustrations.
On this episode of Ping, Laura is joined by special guest Adam DePue to give their insight into the top stories from Microsoft this week. Here's a sampling of the dishes served:
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Friday, November 19, 2010
Italy's culture ministry on Friday defended Premier Silvio Berlusconi for giving ancient marble statues in his office replacement body parts, to the horror of art restorers.
The ministry, which is led by a close ally of the...
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Jennifer Egan is the author of The Invisible Circus, a novel which became a film starring Cameron Diaz. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship,a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction and a Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library. In her...
Irrational games are at it again, announcing another game in the series which include System Shock 2 (with Looking Glass Studios), BioShock and BioShock 2 where they provided character and environment art for their impressive city of Rapture.
BioShock: Infinite takes place in 1912 in a city...
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This demo won 1st place at the Breakpoint 2010 party. This demo is simply mind blowing! This group did a demo consisting completely of particles. Not a single polygon is in this just particles and millions of them...
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These bridges are located in Amsterdam and were made by Naomi. Three unusual red steel bridges extend over the water between the islands Sporenburg and Borneo. Two of these three bridges stretch for 90m and the 3d one is 25 meters long. The pedestrian bridge is the...