An assortment of sculptures once derided by the Nazis as prime examples of “degenerate art”—complete with a Third Reich-sponsored show under that heading—has been partially recovered and reunited for a comeback exhibit at Berlin’s Neues Museum. Related Entries November 30, 2010 Hillary Gets Wiki-Served November 29, 2010 Wiki-Damage Control Time for Clinton
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Residents of a north Atlanta suburb hit by a tornado begin cleaning up from a storm bringing winds as high as 130 miles per hour. At least 50 homes were destroyed. (Dec. 1)
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Panasonic has finally made official several pack-in deals already in effect at retailers both physical and online that add Blu-ray 3D players, glasses and most notably, an exclusive copy of Avatar on Blu-ray 3D (also available to existing owners via a mail-in offer, owners of the Extended Collectors Edition can preview a 3D Easter Egg there too.) Despite being the highest grossing 3D movie of all, it’s still not available at retail and is unlikely to show up there anytime soon, sending the price of those pack-in copies skyrocketing on eBay as owners of non-Panasonic 3D capable TVs try to get their hands on the ultimate demo material. Many current auctions are above the $200 mark, while the highest sold price we saw was $399 about a week ago, although considering a copy of Bee Movie went for $400 back in the day, we can’t say we’re too surprised. Check out the details about Panasonic’s current promotions on its highly rated HDTVs (and the demo tour that just started) in the press release after the break and bring your calculator, if Dances With Smurfs wasn’t your cup of tea anyway, we might have found the perfect way to finance your new home theater upgrade. Continue reading Panasonic officially launches exclusive Avatar Blu-ray 3D pack-in, discs hit $400+ on eBay Panasonic officially launches exclusive Avatar Blu-ray 3D pack-in, discs hit $400+ on eBay originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Photo: Mark Jenkins And Now For Something on the Lighter Side… The urban landscape can be depressing… But that’s what guerilla artists are for! Our cities, where most of humanity now lives, should be vibrant and alive and colorful, not drab successions of near-identical streets. There should be limits to what can be done (safety, destruction of property), but some spaces should be left open to artistic expression if cities are to be more livable. Authorities should actually encourage it, like Toronto’s
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Click here to view this media This is how blatant they are. Shameless, even. After talking it up the night before on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show, Dick Morris posted this on his site yesterday: About half of those who call themselves Republicans in the United States report that they watch Fox News every night and two-thirds say they watch it “several times a week or more.” 46% of Independents also watch Fox News that frequently. Even 21% of Democrats say they watch several times a week or more. Fox News’ market dominance among Republicans and Independents was not as evident in 2008 as it is today. Its growth in market share and ratings has been phenomenal. Now its impact is decisive in Republican primaries. In 2012, the Republicans and Independents that will choose the GOP nominee will be found w atching O’Reilly, Hannity, Beck, Shep Smith, Bret Baer, Megyn Kelly, Steve Doocey, Brian Kilmeade, and Gretchen Carlson. It is on their shows that the early narrowing down process will take place. Day after day, we will see all the candidates on Fox News. Not just in debates, but in frequent appearances on the opinion and news shows on the network. We will watch how they handle themselves, we’ll learn how they answer questions, and we’ll come to our decision. As such, the Republican nominating process will come to resemble American Idol where we watch them perform and vote on who we like the best. But now, surveys in Iowa and New Hampshire will show the same results as the rest of the country because all their Republicans will be watching Fox News – the same broadcast as the rest of us are seeing. Whatever local activity is going on in Des Moines or Cedar Rapids or Manchester or Concord will be drowned out by the constant coverage Republicans will be getting on Fox News. Correct me if I’m wrong, but did Mr. Dick Toe Sucker Morris just say voters won’t matter because Fox News will dictate the outcome? Did he? Really? Why yes, he did. And he restates that here: When the actual primaries take place, their results will tend to ratify the consensus the country has come to from watching Fox News . Americans will impose their views on the early primaries, not the other way around. A couple of thoughts on this. First, Morris either has a fetish about Sarah Palin’s toes or he’s delusional, because Rupert Murdoch has a real thang for Li’l Miss “I’mJustARealPersonWithaTouchofSnark” Palin, and he’d like nothing more than for her to run in 2012. Murdoch is lost in his ” Nixon with lipstick ” fantasy for sure. Second, and more importantly, can we please finally just lose the “fair and balanced” nonsense Fox News peddles and get down to figuring out what the value of the in-kind contribution is when an entire 24-hour cable news channel is devoted to not only covering just one side of the primary races, but also determining the outcome?
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After a brief moment of bipartisan-themed grandstanding the day before, things got back to normal on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, with Senate Republicans plotting to make the most of the next few weeks by doing their darndest to derail any Democratic-backed legislation in the works.
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Cairo: Egypt’s top two opposition movements on Wednesday pulled out of parliamentary elections, citing widespread fraud, after they were all but shut out in a first round of voting. The move by the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood, the strongest opposition force in the country, and the smaller, secular liberal Wafd party is a blow to this top US ally’s efforts to portray itself as a democracy. Egypt’s government has staunchly defended the fairness of last Sunday’s election, despite reports of rampant rigging in favour of the ruling party. A top Brotherhood official said the movement had decided to pull out of a second round of voting scheduled for the coming Sunday. He spoke on condition of…
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Photo: Amazing Scrap Sculptures Of Wildlife By Edouard Martinet These beautiful robot fish sculptures by French artist Edouard Martinet were just one of our 30 most popular posts of November. The other 29 are after the jump. We know you work hard and don’t have time to see every single post we publish, so now you can kick back and see some of the best of what you might of missed. Enjoy! … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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8:08 AM Thursday Dec 2, 2010 Share Email Print Are you a Kiwi who has been hit by Europe’s cold snap? Expand Shrink Heavy snow and subzero temperatures swept across Europe, killing at least eight homeless people in Poland, closing major airports in Britain and Switzerland and causing hundreds of highway accidents. A location in the Scottish highlands recorded Britain’s lowest-ever temperature reading, a chilling minus 27 degrees. Gatwick, London’s second largest airport, and Geneva, a major hub for low-cost carrier Easyjet, were forced to shut down as staff struggled to clear runways of snow. Edinburgh airport in Scotland, Leeds airport in northern England, and Chambery and Grenoble in…
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