San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Artscope
SFMOMA Artscope Visual Artwork Browsing Tool: “The new SFMOMA ArtScope has been designed for wandering, for the chance discovery of artworks visitors might not have encountered before.
The visual browsing tool based on Stamen’s Modest Maps tile engine, features more than 3,500 objects from the SFMOMA collection, arranged in [...]
Europe on the brink of currency crisis meltdown
– Telegraph: “The financial crisis spreading like wildfire across the former Soviet bloc threatens to set off a second and more dangerous banking crisis in Western Europe, tipping the whole Continent into a fully-fledged economic slump.”
(…) Experts fear the mayhem may soon trigger a chain reaction within [...]
Balkan Crew: Fatmir, il re della pizza: “(…) ho deciso di raccontarvi tutto nei dettagli per spiegarvi cosa deve fare un albanese per non essere un ladro.
Sì, perché il protagonista della storia è proprio un ragazzo albanese. Si chiama Fatmir ed è nato a Scutari il 23 Marzo 1968.”
(Via Balkan Crew.)
UNESCO’s atlas showing world’s aquifers
Atlas of hidden water may avert future conflict – New Scientist Environment: “They are one of the world’s greatest and most precious natural resources, yet are entirely hidden. Now, for the first time, a high-resolution map shows where underground aquifers store vast amounts of water.
The map of ‘blue gold’ (pdf format, [...]
The Bank Bailouts Are Very Well Intended, But Where Is All The Money Going To Come From?: “It has been estimated that European government bond issuance will rise to record levels of more than €1,000bn in 2009 – 30 per cent higher than 2008 – as governments seek to stimulate their economies and pay for [...]
A heroin user in Kabul, photo by Aaron Huey, Afghanistan Drug War
Photos from the Afghanistan Drug War: “Aaron Huey takes gorgeous photos for National Geographic Adventure, the New Yorker, Smishsonian, and the New York Times. He recently hitchiked across Siberia on a National Geographic Expedition Council Grant. Huey’s site is filled with stunning images, including [...]
China Channel Firefox Add-on – Experience the censored Chinese internet at home!: “The Firefox add-on China Channel offers internet users outside of China the ability to surf the web as if they were inside mainland China.
Take an unforgetable virtual trip to China and experience the technical expertise of the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry [...]
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BalkanInsight.com – Serbia-Bosnian Serbs Soccer Match Banned: “The international soccer body, FIFA, has banned a friendly between Serbia’s national football team and a selection of players from Bosnia’s Serb-dominated entity of Republika Srpska.”
The match between Serbia and Republika Srpska was previously approved by Bosnia’s Football Association, despite strong protests from some Bosniak (Bosnian [...]
The wreckage of a shop in Berlin after Nov. 9, 1938 — Kristallnacht, “the night of broken glass” (AP)
Klandorf Journal – A German Dump Holds Shards of a Terrible Night – NYTimes.com: “KLANDORF, Germany — Seventy years ago next month, rioters wreaked havoc on their Jewish neighbors, destroying and burning thousands of synagogues, businesses and [...]
Author: Stefano Giantin