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 a continuous, map-like grid.
Users can zoom in on an eye-catching image, search by keyword or artist, or just have a look around, while zoomed views of artworks can even be deep linked.”
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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 [...]
BalkanInsight.com – Bulgaria Plant ‘World’s Most Dangerous’: “Bulgaria’s planned nuclear plant at Belene is among the most dangerous projects of its kind in the world, the environmental activist group Greenpeace claims.
Speaking to Germany’s Deutsche Welle, Greenpeace’s nuclear analyst Heinz Smital argued Belene was a massive and irresponsible gamble, which would only tarnish the reputation of [...]