worldspy - 18.04.12 12:41 Architect David Adjaye has revealed plans to group nine of Frankfurt’s existing cultural institutions onto a combined campus in the heart of the city. The 16.5 hectare site is currently occupied by Frankfurt University but will be vacant by 2014. Adjaye Associates are proposing to create a single shared foyer, which will connect each of the nine [. mehr bei dezeen.com

grrow - 27.03.12 15:28 Tunisian bloggers succeeded in getting permission to form the first anti-censorship party in Africa and the Arab world. ----- The Tunisian interior ministry just legalised Africa's first anti-censorship political party. The Tunisian Pirate Party, approved on March 13th, is a branch of the worldwide cyber-activist movement. mehr bei makeahistory.com

worldspy - 31.01.12 02:25 Although they’re played on small devices, mobile games are becoming a huge deal — and they’re not just confined to smartphones… mehr bei mashable.com

worldspy - 14.01.12 02:38 For São Paulo’s 17th International Contemporary Art Festival, we created an online tool for people to escape from their virtual routines, that habit of checking out thousands of times the same websites every day. By logging on to www.botaodeescape.com it is possible to install this escape button by dragging the escape icon onto the toolbar of the... mehr bei adsoftheworld.com

worldspy - 16.12.11 17:42 Moroccan netizens are divided as to whether to support a call for a boycott of a Moroccan singer who performed in Tel Aviv despite calls for her to cancel the performance in Israel. mehr bei globalvoicesonline.org

grrow - 05.01.11 14:31
While Jean-Luc Godard’s life and work has received a plethora of critical attention, a relatively uncharted episode occurred in 1977–1978, when, at the behest of the Samora Machel government, the filmmaker worked in Mozambique to assist in the establishment of the country’s first television station. mehr bei makeahistory.com

lenchen - 17.12.10 08:27
Google’s massive trove of scanned books could be useful for researchers studying the evolution of culture.


In a paper published Dec. 16 in Science, researchers turned part of that vast textual corpus into a 500-billion-word database in which the frequency of words can be measured over time and space.
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grrow - 01.12.10 13:54
By mid-1977 the shape of the scene for the next couple of years was set: a musically-centered subculture, inspired by records and publicity from the U.K., centered in live performance in small nightclubs in North Beach and Hollywood, neighborhoods laden with both bohemian/ counter culture traditions and commercial sleaze culture. mehr bei makeahistory.com

lenchen - 20.10.10 15:28
Prosper Marchand’s frontpiece on Histoire de l’origine et des primiers progrès de l’imprimerie (1740) shows the spirit of Print descending from the heavens under the aegis of Minerva and Mercury, towards representations of the “true” originator of the printing press: Gutenberg, Fust, and (a blank) Schoeffer for Germany; Koster in the hands of... mehr bei jaivirdi.wordpress.com

grrow - 16.06.10 12:57
The political philosophy known as juche became the official autarkic state ideology of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) in 1972.1 Although foreign scholars often describe juche as “self-reliance,” the true meaning of the term is much more nuanced. mehr bei makeahistory.com