Let's look at the pretty
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ellestraUNESCO has updated World Heritage List. You can see them here (it's in Polish but just click on blue rectangle with an arrow). Useful for travel planning.
The old photographs have to be black and white (or sepia). It's so ingrained in our minds that it's shocking to see world in colour from before the WWI. Here are some of thousands of photographs made in Imperial Russia for last Tsar (it's in Polish but just click on blue rectangle with an arrow). Look how vivid the colours are. The technique used by Siergiey Prokudin-Gorski relied on the use of three different colour filters. Later the colour picture that was put together from these three - on some photos you can see some people moved and on water you can see the colours - but for most parts it's incredibly clear. Almost can't believe they are hundred years old.
io9 has 100+ Science Fiction Characters Drawn In The Simpsons Style. I think the Battlestar Galactica Gallery is the best. It has extensive use of toasters, and Dee with men on leashes, and Tory doing airlocking, and Tyrol and Cally being adorable together, and... OK, I love them all.
In other news The Pirate Bay has been sold to some company that plans to pay for copyrighted material. So it'll probably go the way of Napster and die. At least the guys who invented it will be able pay the fine if the appeal won't work.
And more awards: The John W. Campbell Memorial Award judges couldn't decide between Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother and Ian R. MacLeod’s Song of Time so they both got it. The short fiction Theodore Strugeon Memorial Award goes to James Alan Gardner’s The Ray Gun: A Love Story .
The old photographs have to be black and white (or sepia). It's so ingrained in our minds that it's shocking to see world in colour from before the WWI. Here are some of thousands of photographs made in Imperial Russia for last Tsar (it's in Polish but just click on blue rectangle with an arrow). Look how vivid the colours are. The technique used by Siergiey Prokudin-Gorski relied on the use of three different colour filters. Later the colour picture that was put together from these three - on some photos you can see some people moved and on water you can see the colours - but for most parts it's incredibly clear. Almost can't believe they are hundred years old.
io9 has 100+ Science Fiction Characters Drawn In The Simpsons Style. I think the Battlestar Galactica Gallery is the best. It has extensive use of toasters, and Dee with men on leashes, and Tory doing airlocking, and Tyrol and Cally being adorable together, and... OK, I love them all.
In other news The Pirate Bay has been sold to some company that plans to pay for copyrighted material. So it'll probably go the way of Napster and die. At least the guys who invented it will be able pay the fine if the appeal won't work.
And more awards: The John W. Campbell Memorial Award judges couldn't decide between Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother and Ian R. MacLeod’s Song of Time so they both got it. The short fiction Theodore Strugeon Memorial Award goes to James Alan Gardner’s The Ray Gun: A Love Story .
