July 30 08
So Google has officially opened up Knol to the public. FYI, Knol is G’s next attempt to take over the world (or at least its information) by building a community-driven, open-source encyclopedia similar to Wikipedia.
Google gives us all the goods on its Googleblog, so I’ll let you do the reading yourself. Do note, though, that [...]
July 26 08
Transylvanians in Alba Iulia rally for the union of Transylvania and Romania at the end of the First World War.
[wiki Romania in World War One] [wiki Transylvania]
July 25 08
Construction of the Wall, 13 Aug, 1961. Courtesy Corey Hatch.
We often forget about the faces of the people in photographs such as these. Look at masons on the east, doing their work whilst surrounded by officers, while onlookers in the west, also surrounded by officers, watch.
July 24 08
(A chance encounter with a preview of the upcoming remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still (starring Keanu Reeves as Klaatu, it appears) inspired today’s scouring of the net for images to share.)
[I may write later on about my favourite sort of sci-fi alien-encounter movies, as well as a more thorough analysis of the [...]
July 24 08
German Artillery marching through the Brandenburg Gate, 1914.
July 23 08
Aerial Shot of Guernica, after the bombardment. Found on an Air Minded post about aerial bombardment.
(wiki Guernica) (wiki Spanish Civil War)
July 22 08
Whenever I feel that I’m not being eco-friendly enough, I ask myself “What would Suzuki do?”, or even just rhyme off the acroynm, “WWSD”. It works wonders, it really does. Really now, every Canadian I know wishes he or she could be David Suzuki’s grandchild. It’s simply in the nature of things.
Unless, of course, you’re [...]
July 22 08
After a week of overcast clouds looming over us, the rain has finally come to Hali. It came on Monday, and its has come today, and it is to come tomorrow. Lucky for the Pineapples, I’m in one of those “I love the rain!” sorts of moods. It may stem from a horrible Eurythmics joke [...]
July 22 08
Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, and Donald O’Connor in Singin’ In The Rain (1952).
Singin in the Rain, Original Poster