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American architect beats his own record after creating the world's largest house of cards | Mail Online |
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12:23 pm EDT, Mar 17, 2010 |
An American architect has broken his own Guinness World Record by building the largest house of free-standing playing cards. Bryan Berg used 218,792 cards to create a replica of the Venetian Macau, which is on display in its namesake luxury hotel and casino. Berg took 44 days and 4,051 decks of cards to complete his model inside the Venetian, which sits at the heart of Macau's Cotai Strip, the China-ruled city's version of Las Vegas' neon alley.null
American architect beats his own record after creating the world's largest house of cards | Mail Online |
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6:15 pm EDT, Mar 14, 2010 |
Keep your cyber clean. TRON is a 3D high-tech adventure set in a digital world that's unlike anything ever captured on the big screen. Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund), the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), looks into his father's disappearance and finds himself pulled into the same world of fierce programs and gladiatorial games where his father has been living for 25 years. Along with Kevin's loyal confidant (Olivia Wilde), father and son embark on a life-and-death journey across a visually-stunning cyber universe that has become far more advanced and exceedingly dangerous.
Decius: This looks good!
k: This is gonna be sooo bad.
Bruce Schneier: More is coming.
Thomas Powers: Is more what we really need?
Tim Kreider's married friend: It's not as if being married means you're any less alone.
Decius: Wow, life is boring.
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Triumph of the Cyborg Composer | Smart Journalism. Real Solutions. | Miller-McCune Online Magazine |
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10:02 pm EST, Mar 10, 2010 |
Finally, Cope’s program could divine what made Bach sound like Bach and create music in that style. It broke rules just as Bach had broken them, and made the result sound musical. It was as if the software had somehow captured Bach’s spirit — and it performed just as well in producing new Mozart compositions and Shakespeare sonnets. One afternoon, a few years after he’d begun work on Emmy, Cope clicked a button and went out for a sandwich, and she spit out 5,000 beautiful, artificial Bach chorales, work that would’ve taken him several lifetimes to produce by hand.
The ipod might not need musicians Triumph of the Cyborg Composer | Smart Journalism. Real Solutions. | Miller-McCune Online Magazine |
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7:34 pm EST, Mar 8, 2010 |
8-bit NYC
New York, just like I pixeled it
8-bit NYC map. 8-Bit NYC |
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Steve Jobs: The Agony and the Ecstasy | News | TechRadar UK |
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11:48 am EST, Mar 8, 2010 |
A new play about tight-ship-running Apple CEO Steve Jobs is set to be staged at California's Berkeley Theatre early next year, penned by one of America's leading playwrights. The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs is to be staged in Berkeley in January 2011, with writer Mike Daisey having been praised by the New York Times in the past as being "the master storyteller" and "one of the finest solo performers of his generation." Daisey will not be performing his monologue, however, with another performer still to be charged with that daunting role. Real-life Willy Wonka Berkeley Rep describes that play as Daisey diving "into the epic story of a real-life Willy Wonka whose personal obsessions profoundly affect our everyday lives—and follows the trail to China where millions toil in factories to create iPhones and iPods.
Ooompa loompa... Steve Jobs: The Agony and the Ecstasy | News | TechRadar UK |
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