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Femme
Extraz
That rumor is true. There's life
beyond poker. But don't take our word for it. Check out
the constantly updated Femme
Extraz for some of the
best, newest and coolest stuff on the Web.
Lomography - The colors of Chaos
 14
years after two Viennese students ran into the Russian 35
mm Lomo camera in the streets of Prague and started
spreading the
Lomo gospel, Lomography has become one of the most
dynamic and exciting niches in early 21st century
photography.
With
their arty, dreamy textures, and warm, sometimes
distorted colors, Lomo photographs often capture the
hidden abstract and chaotic layers of reality. Lomography
can be seen as a reaction to the dominance of the highly
efficient yet cold and somewhat soulless digital cameras.
Natalie
Zwillinger is a young renowned Lomographer.
She has won
several prizes in major Lomo contests and exhibits
internationally. Her best works
reveal a wild, intimate, sensual, feminine point of view
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NASA Quest - Meet the Inspirational Women of NASA
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NASA
Quest is a Web-based project that was
created to encourage more young women to
pursue careers in science and technology.
The Women
of NASA interactive project showcases
great women with successful careers, and
demonstrates how they manage to balance
their personal and professional
responsibilities. The project features interactive
events such as live chats, discussion forums, and
webcasts.
U.S.A.F. Lt. Col. Eileen
Marie Collins - the first woman ever
selected to be a space shuttle pilot and the
first woman to command a space
shuttle.
This cool project
offers participants the opportunity to
interact with and learn from female
astronauts, scientists, and managers, which can be an
inspirational experience even if you don't
know Mars from Saturn and seek a completely
different career
path.
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Quest
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Web 2.0 is here with
Netvibes & Windows Live
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Still in Beta phase, but work
seamlessly, Netvibes
and Windows
Live are two truly innovative services
that enable you to experience the
future of the Web, today. Based on a
new technology named AJAX, these FREE
services let you instantly and
effortlessly create dynamic,
personalized Web pages with the
information, links, gadgets, RSS
feeds, and personal stuff (like PC
files) of your choice. Instead of
browsing Gmail to check your mail,
then visiting Yahoo Finance to see how
your stocks are doing, and then
checking if your favorite blog has
been updated, you can use Netvibes
or Windows
Live, and get all your favorite
content on one neat and automatically updated page.
The cool, easy to use, drag and drop menus allow you to create, update and modify your page and turn it into a hip yet highly useful virtual desktop
Netvibes
was created by a small European
startup. Windows
Live is a Microsoft service (No
support for Firefox browsers yet, but
surprisingly, Bill Gates guys
promise to offer it soon.) We know people who dig Netvibes
and others who claim Windows
Live is the real thing, so our
recommendation is to try both and see
which one works better for you.
Whatever your choice may be, there's a
good chance you’ll soon wonder how
you did without it.
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Great Women of
the Past: Josephine Baker;
Exotic
Dancer, Resistance Hero, Anti-Racist Activist Josephine Baker AKA "The Black Venus" was an African American dancer and actress who
took Paris by storm in the
1920's with her astonishing sensual act. Baker, whom Ernest Hemingway called "the most sensational woman anyone ever saw", was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1906 to a washerwoman and a vaudeville drummer.
She grew up cleaning houses and babysitting for wealthy white families who
told her "be sure not to kiss the baby."
"The Eiffel Tower looked
very different from the Statue of Liberty, but
what did that matter? What was the good of
having the statue without the liberty?"
She entered vaudeville as a
teenager,
moved to NYC during the Harlem Renaissance,
and made a name for herself, performing at the Plantation Club.
Josephine Baker
hit Paris in 1925 and became an overnight success
with her erotic dancing, appearing
virtually naked on stage. She performed in a skirt made
of bananas, often accompanied by her diamond-collared
pet leopard, Chiquita. She was the most successful American entertainer working in
Europe whereas back home she would have suffered from
racial discrimination and prejudices.
During World War II she performed for the
Allied troops,
helped the French underground, and served as a sub-lieutenant in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. After the war she was awarded the Medal of the Resistance and named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by the French government.
Baker,
who was married and divorced six times, adopted 12
diverse children. She called them "The Rainbow
Tribe," proving that "children of different ethnicities and religions could still be brothers."
Josephine visited the US during the 50s and 60s. When a popular New York club refused her service, she
got into a harsh media battle with a pro-segregation columnist.
In 1975, in the midst of a comeback, she died
at the age of 68 of a cerebral
hemorrhage.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) named May 20
Josephine Baker Day in honor of her courage and vision.
Official
Site of Josephine Baker
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Overheard in New York
Old lady: I'm telling you: she's allergic to snow!
[28th & Park]
Guy #1: Well, to the west is Chelsea, down past 14th Street is the Village, uptown is Harlem, down past Houston is Soho; the Lower East Side is South past the Village.
Guy #2: What's this area called?
Guy #1: I have no idea... [15th & 2nd]
Hobo: Man invented the condom so that the woman would stop trying to steal his
DNA [F train]
The above exchanges are recent
samples of the endless stream of
funny, weird or hilariously silly
real-life conversation fragments
documented in Overheard
in New York.
Based on submissions by sharp-eared
New Yorkers, Overheard
in New York offers a rare
opportunity to learn about this
strange thing called the human mind,
and laugh out loud at the same time.
If you like OINY
as much as we do, you should also
check its sister site, Overheard
in the Office for gems like this
conversation snippet:
Guy #1: Why did you only wash one
hand?
Guy #2: I only peed on one hand.
Guy #1: You're an idiot.
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The
Face Transformer
From the University of St
Andrews, Scotland comes The
Face Transformer, a facial
manipulation tool that simply
rocks. Upload your picture to
this Java applet, and soon
you'll go through radical age,
gender and race metamorphosis.
Just been dumped? Wipe away your
tears, sis, and turn the ex-hole
into an Ape Man. The Face
Transformer can also make the
faces you upload the subjects of
beautiful virtual portraits in
the style of Botticelli, El
Greco and Modigliani.
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Please wait... Your Dream is Loading...
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Leonardo Solaas' Dreamlines
is a haunting visual trip you should check
if you're into subtle virtual art.
Enter the
words that define the dream you wish to
dream, and the neat applet
would scan the Web for related images, and
use them to generate beautiful,
constantly-changing semi-abstract digital
paintings.
More works by the same
interactive artist, can be found here.
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The Resolution
Revolution |
Don't let the revolution in resolution
pass you by. High-definition
technology brings the widescreen clarity and color depth of
35 mm film to your PC screen.
The H.264 codec makes it possible for
the QuickTime 7
video player to play back high-definition video on a personal computer without
any additional hardware.
If your PC has the hardware
needed to run QuickTime
7, you can sit back and enjoy the QuickTime
gallery for visually-stunning high-definition
videos and trailers.
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