PUB MTV censurée - une vidéo Actu et Politique 2010 World Cup – The Ultimate Graphic and Data Resources Guide The World Cup is coming!! One of the world’s biggest sports events, matched only by the Olympics, promises to deliver a whole month of fun for all soccer fans. Being so important, it’s pretty natural you’ll find a lot of articles, comments, blog posts and, of course, data-visualization goodies on this matter. Infographics, editorial illustrations, interactive charts and maps, all of them deliver fun and interesting way of understanding and following this great event, so, today I leave you here with a (too long?) FIFA Soccer World Cup Trophy Tour by Coca Cola The World Cup is organized by FIFA, the international supreme ruller of the sport – so, nothing more obvious than start this selection with a take on one of the resources from the official World Cup website. The Trophy Tour Map shows the worldwide trip made by the most wanted object in soccer world, giving the fans a chance to take pictures with it. Jabulani, the official ball of the FIFA World Cup 2010 All about the World Cup
An Organised Tip: Random Access Memories - A Review Random Access Memories - Daft Punk I, along with many thousands (probably millions) of other Daft Punk fans have been waiting 8 years for this release (apart from a few select tracks, I don’t count Tron: Legacy), since their last record, Human After All, failed to rate as highly as their first two efforts Discovery and Homework. That being said, there are some cracking songs on there, Technologic and The Brainwasher being two very good examples, although I do believe that On/Off should be a free song or album only on iTunes, for the sheer fact that it’s only 19 seconds long (the same should apply to WDPK 83.7 FM). When Daft Punk announced that they were recording a disco album, many did think that they were going to do a follow up or something similar to Discovery. The result of 5 years of work has culminated in a time machine going to the 70’s and 80’s and firing the music straight into the future. Give Life Back To The Music (4.34) The Game Of Love (5.21) Giorgio By Moroder (9.04) Oh.
2010 FIFA World Cup: 3 Ways to Watch For continuous World Cup coverage, check out Mashable's 2010 World Cup Hub, which will be updated throughout the games. Football fanatics all over the world are eagerly anticipating the kick-off to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. The Internet has already started to fill up with football-themed viral videos, Twitter accounts and epic trailers. This year’s tournament has already been hyped as “the first social media world cup,” but what if you want to actually watch your favorite team compete? ESPN and ABC have teamed up to bring to your television — in some combination — every single football match being played. 1. No TV? Univision will also be live streaming every single match for free online at UnivisionFutbol.com. 2. Half the fun of World Cup football is reliving the best goals, moves and moments. Footytube Footytube is a website dedicated to football videos — from the smallest European leagues all the way up to the World Cup. ESPN on YouTube 3. Who knew there was a U.S.
DAFT PUNK TO RELEASE LIVE VINYL BOX SET IN TIME FOR XMAS With the vinyl revolution seemingly in full swing, Daft Punk have weighed in with the announcement that they will be releasing their seminal live albums ‘Alive 1997’ and ‘Alive 2007’ as part of a vinyl box set just in time for Christmas. The box set will include two 180g white LPs, a 52-page booklet and download cards for the album and video ‘Harder Better Faster Stronger’. The albums themselves will also be available individually. The news will certainly excite Daft Punk fanboys and vinyl junkies a like as ‘Alive 2007’ has never previously been available on vinyl, and fresh copies of ‘1997’ have become increasingly scarce as time has passed. The box set is available for pre-order on Amazon.fr and with the release date set for December 19. [Image via Stoney Roads][Image via BBC]
HOW TO: Follow the 2010 FIFA World Cup on Twitter For continuous World Cup coverage, check out Mashable's 2010 World Cup Hub, which will be updated throughout the games. The 2010 World Cup is going to be a very interesting one as far as social media goes — it's the first to be played out in the Twitter era and the first to fully embrace the social media universe. This bodes well for avid football fans keen to stay up to date with all the most recent news from their favorite players and teams. The real-time nature of Twitter may well entice these newcomers to hop on the micro-blogging site. To get new users ready for the action, we've got a few tips for how to follow the World Cup on Twitter complete with a list of who you should be following to stay informed on the games, news, and goings on in South Africa. 1. At the moment, #worldcup seems to be the largest tag by volume of tweets, but #wc2010 is also doing the rounds, as is #2010worldcup. Other tags have, of course, sprung up around teams. 2. 3. US Soccer - "U.S.
The Internet Is Making You Smarter! There are a lot of panic-ridden books out there designed to maximize the terror in which many American readers apparently enjoy spending their leisure hours. Amazon returns over a hundred results for just the phrase "The Coming Crisis." The crises that are coming are to do with radical Islam, the rise of judicial power, agricultural disasters (var.), the collapse of the educational system, nuclear proliferation, water running out, government bankruptcies, and a swarm of aging boomers who are going to swoop down like locusts and devour what little is left. Squarely in this tradition, Nicholas Carr's hand-wringing article in The Atlantic ("Is Google Making Us Stupid?" The original article was born of the author's realization that he can't concentrate like he used to. In any case, isn't it already pretty dodgy for Carr to admit that he can't concentrate, and then try to persuade us of anything whatsoever? Hyperlinks, the proliferation of which Mr. Miller wrote:
The Death and Life of the Book Review Wading through the year-end newspaper and magazine digests of politics and culture usually makes for dreary reading, and last year was no exception. Some writers struggled to wring a drop of good news from the decade. Others strode to the bar and leveled indictments. Either way it was a bad patch, an impossible task. About the Author John Palattella John Palattella is literary editor of The Nation. Also by the Author Victor Navasky’s The Art of Controversy: Political Cartoons and their Enduring Power Elizabeth Bishop's Poems and Prose; James Gleick's The Information. Seeking some solace I picked up a book, and in a matter of minutes I read the following passage: Now that anyone is free to print whatever they wish, they often disregard that which is best and instead write, merely for the sake of entertainment, what would best be forgotten, or, better still be erased from all books. That a steep erosion in newspaper books coverage has occurred is undeniable.
Gallery: Digitizing the past and present at the Library of Congress The Library of Congress has nearly 150 million items in its collection, including at least 21 million books, 5 million maps, 12.5 million photos and 100,000 posters. The largest library in the world, it pioneers both preservation of the oldest artifacts and digitization of the most recent--so that all of it remains available to future generations. I recently took a tour of two LoC departments that exemplify this mission: the Preservation Research and Testing Division in Washington, D.C., and the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper, Va. The library's preservation specialists use the latest technology to study and scan ancient books, maps and other historical artifacts. One process, called scanning electron microscopy, allows them to create elemental maps of manuscripts, identifying the chemical nature of inks and pigments, or the paper itself. X-rays, however, aren't easy to work around. "We don't filter at the camera, we illuminate with small wavelengths," Fenella said.