Hard to believe that everything that happens in the 21 st century… Looks like the slavery. People working hard from dawn till dusk in awful conditions… No more words, just look…
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Archive for February, 2009
Gold mine in Congo
Saturday, February 28th, 2009Alcohol in India
Saturday, February 28th, 2009
If you are going to visit India, even don’t think about drinking local alcohol. You ask why? It is bacause it is made of… well… see for yourself 
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How 9/11 Changed Watchmen
Saturday, February 28th, 2009The horrific visions that open the final chapter of Alan Moore’s Watchmen haunt you long afterwards. But Zack Snyder’s movie tones down that imagery, and screenwriter David Hayter says it’s because of 9/11. Spoilers below.
As you probably already know, there’s no giant squid at the end of Snyder’s movie adaptation. But that’s not the only thing that’s missing. The film leaves out the gut-wrenching images that fill nine pages of the graphic novel, at the start of Chapter 12
In the book, a doomsday clock dripping with the blood of massacred New Yorkers is followed by in-your-face carnage. There are no words, just page after page of silent faces frozen in despair. Bodies are piled on top of bodies, hunched over street corners and splayed outside of windows. If you’re familiar with the book, you know that the world, for New Yorkers, has just ended. The visually arresting images push forward the final issue that the entire novel hinges upon: Is it okay to kill millions to save billions? It’s violent and necessary… but it’s not in the movie.
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Eminem sues Universal over digital royalties
Friday, February 27th, 2009Eminem’s lawsuit against his label finally went to trial this week after two years, in a case worth hundreds of millions of pounds to artists worldwide.
Eminem’s publishing company, FBT Productions, is suing Universal Music Group for $1.6m (£800,000) in alleged unpaid royalties. But what’s at stake is not just an unpaid bill – it’s the definition of digital royalties.
When a song or ringtone is bought online, at the iTunes Music Store or anywhere else, the artist receives a royalty. The amount of this royalty is governed by a contract between labels and artists. For many artists, however, that digital royalty is not explicitly stated – millions of contracts, after all, predate iTunes and did not anticipate the boom in digital music sales.
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Doh! ‘The Simpsons’ back for 2 more seasons
Friday, February 27th, 2009
Doh! Big-screen success hasn’t jaded Homer, Bart, Marge, Maggie and Lisa. They’re going to stay on TV for a long time, Fox announced today.
The network renewed “The Simpsons” for two more seasons. That means 44 additional episodes after this season, bringing the show through its 22nd season and 493rd episode. “The Simpsons,” created by cartoonist Matt Groening, debuted as a regular series on Jan. 14, 1990 after a Christmas special on Dec. 17, 1989. It first appeared in 1987 as a series of 30-second shorts for “The Tracey Ullman Show.”
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Online webcam from owl’s nest
Thursday, February 26th, 2009Get closer to the wildlife! Here is a webcam from the owl’s nest. Have a look. Kind of wildlife reality show 
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Street of hell
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Street graffity became more creative. Have a look on this “Hell street”. German artist named Edgar Mueller has created this painting over 5 days, working for 12 hours.
7 Celebrity Careers That Launched by Accident
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009Hollywood is filled with plenty of rags to riches stories. Jim Carey worked as a janitor, Demi Moore was a debt collector, Brad Pitt used to wear a chicken suit while handing out fliers and Sharon Stone worked (works?) at a McDonald’s.
But some actors’ beginnings can be attributed to not hard work, but sheer chance or accident. Such as…
#7.
Mel Gibson
Even though he’s turned into a walking punchline the last few years, there’s no denying Mel Gibson will go down as one of the biggest stars in Hollywood history. His movies have made two billion dollars in the US alone and he’s got two Oscars to go with it.
But Gibson’s accidental stumble into stardom started in New York, where he was born (not Australia, as it turns out). Gibson’s father, Hutton, filed a lawsuit against the city and won. After collecting his money, he moved his family to Australia. It was in this dingo-infested continent that a young Mel started to dabble in acting, and would get his big break due to a ridiculous, drunken stroke of luck.
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Singing Spiderman Swings into a Broadway Musical
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009On February 2010 we’ll find out what happens when you mix up Spiderman, Bono and a Broadway musical together. The website for Spider-Man, Turn Off The Dark has gone live and come June you’ll be able to sign up for tickets for a show that promises a new take on the story of Peter Parker, whose life is turned upside down when he’s bitten by a genetically altered spider.
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50 Greatest Guitar Albums
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
Guitar World ranks the 50 greatest guitar albums in rock and roll history.
50) The Doors, 1967 (The Doors)
The Doors’ stunning debut album established Jim Morrison as the shaman poet of the psychedelic explosion. The Lizard King’s darkly incandescent imagery captivated listeners like a pied piper’s spell, but the Doors’ hypnotic music is what held them rapt. Serpentine riffs from Robbie Krieger’s guitar danced in the magic gateway where Delta blues and ancient Indian ragas converge. Organist Ray Manzarek wove swirling baroque arabesques, his steady left hand holding down the bass line. Drummer John Densmore handled the beat with the supple freedom of a jazzman, leading band and singer on epic improvisational journeys. Many kiddies came to the album through the edited-down AM radio hit version of “Light My Fire.” There, they found themselves in a strange new world of Oedipal drama and mystical sensuality.
WHAT THEY SAID Ray Manzarek: “The first Doors album was recorded on four-track, and it captured the way we played live. Onstage, we’d hit something every once in a while that was absolute transcendental magic. Each of us was sending out these tentacles of energy concentration to each other. Then the audience would get caught up in that wave of energy we were creating.”
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Pirate Bay Plea: Stop Hacking the Music Industry!
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009Indicating support for The Pirate Bay team, hackers have attacked several of the IFPI’s websites, defacing one of them with a message for the trial prosecution. However, Peter Sunde feels the attack is misguided and says such actions don’t help their cause. He is pleading with the hackers to stop.
There can be no doubt. This week has seen a level of support for The Pirate Bay that has taken almost everyone by surprise. Sure, everyone knows it is the biggest BitTorrrent site and sure, the people who run it are some of the biggest characters in the scene, but the interest has been over and above what most people expected.
Some are showing support by getting up in the middle of the night and translating the case for others. Some have been outside the court in the cold, while others have released a documentary. Many millions have been following every development online and posting words of support feverishly to blog and forum.
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