It’s about time Boy George confirmed what he’s been hinting at since his release from the pokey on kidnapping charges last year: His ’80s pop band Culture Club is reuniting in 2012. Egads! The singer, 49, has been busy promoting his solo album but promised new tunes and a “proper, huge, worldwide tour” from the [...]
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Romani Material Culture exhibition opens
November 18th, 2010 |
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Exhibition of items from the Museum of Romani Culture was opened on Wednesday evening before a numerous audience in Belgrade’s Atelje 212 theater. The author of the exhibition dubbed “Romani Material Culture” is Dragoljub Acković, the director of the Museum of Romani Culture and World Roma Assembly member.
Oct. 15, 1900: Boston Embraces the Sound of Music
October 15th, 2010 |
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1900: Boston’s Symphony Hall, an acoustical marvel in its day and still regarded as one of the world’s great concert halls, opens with an inaugural concert by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Unlike most American concert halls, which tend to favor a wider, fan-shaped configuration, Symphony Hall was built along European lines — deep, narrow and high. [...]
Oct. 8, 1582: Nothing Happens … in Catholic Lands
October 8th, 2010 |
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1582: Nobody does anything, anything at all. In fact, nobody does anything whatsoever between Oct. 4 and Oct. 15, 1582, because the 10 intervening days have simply been declared out of existence by the pope. (This offer may not apply outside Italy, Spain and Portugal.)
Where did those days go?
By the mid-1570s, the Julian Calendar established [...]
TV Tokyo Online The Japanese Culture and Animation Posted By : Paddy Chang
September 25th, 2010 |
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Live Internet TV | Online TV technology allows you to watch over 4,500 HD channels right on your PC.
Sept. 21, 1866: Wells Springs Forth
September 21st, 2010 |
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1866: Sci-fi legend and determined futurist Herbert George Wells is born into the lower middle class in England. The prolific author of The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds and many more immeasurably influential works will eventually produce an essential literary legacy that has since transcended time altogether — while terrorizing minds with debilitating [...]
Cell Phone Culture Breeds Security, Irritation, Study Finds
September 2nd, 2010 |
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Adults are texting more than ever before, but not nearly as much as teenagers, and more people are getting annoyed with the frequency of it, a report from the Pew Research Center finds. – The Pew Research Centers Internet amp; American Life Projects
quot;Cell Phones and American Adults quot; report found that grownups are
catching up with the tech-savvy younger generation when it comes to
text messaging: Some 72 percent of adult cell phone users send and
receive text messages n…
Aug. 19, 1839: Photography Goes Open Source
August 19th, 2010 |
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1839: With a French pension in hand, Louis Daguerre reveals the secrets of making daguerreotypes to a waiting world. The pioneering photographic process is an instant hit.
Using chemical reactions to make images with light was not quite new. Doing it fast was. Inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niepce created a rough image using silver salts and [...]
Apple’s Corporate Culture: 10 Lessons for Staying in Steve Jobs’ Good Graces
August 11th, 2010 |
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News Analysis: Apple’s top iPhone executive has left the company over reports that he didn’t fit into Apple’s corporate culture. So, maybe it’s time for a review of what Apple’s culture is really all about. – The announcement that Apple Senior Vice President Mark Papermaster left
Apple sent shockwaves through the tech industry. Papermaster came to Apple from
IBM after the companies waged a short-lived
battle over exactly when he could start working at the hardware company.
After that, he took over t…
Aug. 9, 1854: Thoreau Warns, ‘The Railroad Rides on Us’
August 9th, 2010 |
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1854: Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden, or, Life in the Woods. His distillation of two years living in relative seclusion offers deep insights not just into the natural world and humanity’s place in it, but how that relationship was being impacted — and degraded — by the Industrial Revolution. It remains to this day a [...]
Corporate Identity Design: The Silver Lining in Corporate Culture Posted By : Tradexcel Graphics
July 23rd, 2010 |
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Corporate Identity Design is one of most important factors to boost Corporate Brand Identity and Brand Promotion for a modern Business Corporation. Corporate visual identity with the aid of graphics design helps to communicate and capture the attention of target consumers.
July 21, 1911: Media Messenger McLuhan Born
July 21st, 2010 |
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1911: Media theorist Marshall McLuhan escapes the medium of the womb to become a founding messenger of the electronic future. His scholarly analyses like The Mechanical Bride, The Gutenberg Galaxy, Understanding Media, The Medium Is the Massage encode pop culture and postmodernism’s cultural and economic dominance from the 20th century onward.
(Surfing his wave, Wired magazine [...]
Europeana – bringing European culture online Posted By : Lucidimagination
July 15th, 2010 |
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Europeana – bringing European culture online
Japanese firms in China: Culture shock
July 8th, 2010 |
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Chinese labour unrest is forcing Japanese bosses to change
JAPANESE firms were among the first to open factories in China. Deng Xiaoping personally petitioned Sony’s boss, Akio Morita, a few weeks after opening the Chinese economy 30 years ago, in a secret meeting arranged by Henry Kissinger. But having at first helped to develop a poor China, Japanese manufacturers now struggle to operate in a wealthier one.
A series of labour disputes in recent weeks has shut down numerous Japanese factories and disrupted production. Among the victims are Toyota and Honda, hit by a shortage of parts because of stoppages at suppliers. Mitsumi Electric resumed production on July 3rd after a strike affected its electronic-parts factory. Subsidiaries of Nippon Sheet Glass and others have also faced unrest. In 2005 companies suffered anti-Japanese rioting over historical grievances; today the issues are pay and working conditions. …
YouTube Develops towards Popular Culture
June 28th, 2010 |
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It is evident that the popularity of YouTube is continuing to grow. However, it proves that this media portal hasn’t practically changed from the moment of its origin. It has been announced in tabloids that the Hulu will soon launch Hulu Plus, a subscription service. The user will have to pay $10 per month if [...]
June 28, 1846: Parisian Inventor Patents Saxophone
June 28th, 2010 |
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1846: Emerging from his Paris workshop, musician-inventor Adolphe Sax files 14 patents for an instrument destined to revolutionize American music nearly a century later. His new invention: the saxophone.
Initially crafted from wood, Sax’s instruments flared at the tip to form a music-amplifying bell. Designed in seven sizes from sopranino to contrabass, the saxophone combined the [...]