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Implosion
Will the Tour de France ever recover? And what is if the suspended drivers are innocent?
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Send annotated Google Maps to a friend with quikmaps
Ever tried to stick a pin into a Google Map and send it to a friend? Google Maps is nifty in quite a few ways, but its website is entirely for consumers. For the least bit of interactivity, one has to throw additional code at it. The author of quickmaps.com did so, and I like the result. The well chosen set of functions includes adding markers, labels, lines and polylines to a map, save map to and retrieve map from personal collection using clean URLs, add map to own blog or website, and export map as KML. An optional public view on someone's collection would be nice to have. Microsoft's Live Local has most of these functions built in, by the way.
quickmaps.com →
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Rue F. Nicolay
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Rue F. Nicolay and Rue des Hauts Fourneaux, Liège-Ougree, Belgium
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"I would not even have considered showing this."
Maybe you should study some other peoples' photographs here on this forum and get an idea of what a good photograph should look like.
This is hilarious →
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Total
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Photos of A Peaking Industry
Total Raffinaderij Antwerpen, "the largest and most complex refinery of the Total Group, and Europe’s second largest refinery by size." Accordingly, what you see on the photo is nothing but a tiny fraction of the plant.
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Architektouren
Eine schöne Einrichtung in einigen Bundesländern: an zwei Tagen pro Jahr stehen ausgewählte architektonisch interessante Bauten aller Art offen, die normalerweise nicht besichtigt werden können. Letztes Wochenende in NRW, dieses Wochenende im nahen Ausland: Bayerische Architektouren 2006 →
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Brasilien - Japan
Heute also im Westfalenstadion. Und ausgerechnet heute ist es bisher so kalt, daß man meint, es könne problemlos Bodenfrost geben. Das wird dem zu erwartenden Fest vorher und nacher aber kaum Abbruch tun. Die Fans aus Trinidad und Tobago, Togo und der Schweiz waren wohl schon ganz gut, die heutige Kombination dürfte aber ein Hit sein. Das Deutschlandspiel kürzlich hatte in dieser Hinsicht ja nichts zu bieten: Polen in Dortmund, das ist ungefähr so exotisch wie Bayern in München.
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Deppenleerzeichen deluxe
Klick = groß
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Sold out
Today is a good day for booking Iron Maiden Superstars live at the Westfalenhalle (December 8), I thought. It is not so. Sold out. Of course. How could I dare to think it is not. Cold comfort: Death on the Road is a recording of the 2003 Westfalenhalle gig.
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Schwerte (I)
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Hundhausen foundry, Schwerte, Germany
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Les Fabuleuses Ruines de Detroit
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Our society once erected singular and surprising buildings in all domains, including industry. Many cities keep traces of this glorious past but despite a seeming awakening towards the architectural inheritance of the XIXth and XXth Centuries, numerous unexpected monuments are today on the way to rot or, the worth, being destroyed. Since some years, perpetual demolitions led us to make pictures, a way to keep a little bit of this vanishing history.
Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre from France are masters of wide-angular color interior photography, and Photography of the Unexpected and Neglected Architecture is their theme.
Recently they went to Detroit, and what they have found knocks your socks off - so much that the photos are now on show in Paris: Les Fabuleuses Ruines de Detroit - An exhibition related to Motown's forgotten monuments at the Galerie Kennory Kim, featuring enthrallments like the United Artists Theater.
22, Rue des Vertus, 75 003 Paris, France
Now until July, 8
1400 - 2030 o'clock, Tuesdays through Saturdays
Photography of the Unexpected and Neglected Architecture →
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New Category: The Others
Unsurprisingly, I am not the only one taking and publishing photos of industrial sites and landscapes. There are many other, and many do much better than I do. The Others is a new loose series on this blog in which I will showcase the sites of photographers I know and value. Some are close photo friends, some are more distant contacts - and in any case, their sites are entertaining and educating to see.
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Open Source Kindergarten
Task: Guess the name of this Dortmund-Hörde, Germany, kindergarten and guess by which now renamed open source software of which organization the logo has been inspired:
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Tranquil Place
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Somewhere in the former blast furnaces works of the Hörder Bergwerks- und Hütten-Verein, aka Hoesch Stahl AG.
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Nur echt mit Pril-Blumen
Das sollte der neue Untertitel meines Blogs werden. Oder das Hintergrundbild der Seitenleiste sollte bald wieder verschwinden.
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Ausgebloggt
Gute Idee der ZEIT Blogs: Statt als Unote umherzuvagabundieren, bekommen Blogs, die nicht weitegeführt werden, einen Abschlusseintrag und wandern auf den Blog-Friedhof. "Lehrbuchreif", sozusagen.
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Es ist eine Persönlichkeitsspaltung
Als Bürger sind wir Sozialisten – Verfechter der alten sozialen Errungenschaften. Als Kunden sind wir Neoliberale. Marktradikale. Uns ist Recht, was billig ist. "Für 19 Euro nach Barcelona." Noch nie war Doppelmoral so preiswert.
Da hat die ZEIT mal wieder ein leckeres Thema ausgesucht.
Kundenverhalten: Selbst schuld! →
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Sulfuric Acid Plant
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Sulfuric acid plant of an Imperial Smelting Furnace process lead and zinc smelter
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wikiCalc
The wikiCalc program is a web authoring tool for pages that include data that is more than just unformatted prose. It combines some of the ease of authoring and multi-person editing of a wiki with the familiar visual formatting and data organizing metaphor of a spreadsheet.
Introduced by Dan Bricklin in last November, wikiCalc (screencast) is now part of the Socialtext world. This is a great move.
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Beer Garden
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... with a view. Valley of the 1000 kilns, March 2006.
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