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Showing posts with label media. Show all posts

Friday, May 25, 2012

News Reporter Caught Faking Sandstorm After Missing Event

Romanian news reporter Adrian Boioglu was left red faced after he was caught faking a sand storm live on TV after turning up too late to capture the real thing. The bungling reporter convinced an assistant to stand just outside the camera shot and kick sand towards his direction. He was caught out however when a cheeky, or shockingly bad, cameraman let those watching at home in on the secret.



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(thanks Cora)

Friday, December 10, 2010

11 Extravagant Celebrity Weddings

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With the recent engagement of Prince William to longtime girlfriend Kate Middleton, the celebrity gossip mill is already churning over their wedding details. Expecting it to be an elaborate affair, everything from the location to the flowers is being discussed in the smallest detail.

But British royals aren't the only celebrities to get attention for their weddings. Look back at 11 famous couples who've outdone themselves when walking down the aisle.

(thanks Jessie)

Friday, August 13, 2010

9 Impressive Young Record-Breakers


When 16-year-old Abby Sunderland attempted to claim the record for youngest person to sail around the world earlier this year, she was forced to abandon her ship due to treacherous waters. She returned home safely, but the ordeal created a controversy, with skeptics questioning the safety of pursuing 'The Youngest' records and supporters cheering the youngster's passion.

But Sunderland wasn't the first teen in history with big dreams.
With help from the World Records Academy, here are the nine most impressive under-18 record-breakers, with feats ranging from downright daring - like scaling Mount Everest - to impressively intellectual - like becoming the youngest chess Grandmaster.

(thanks Jessie)

Sunday, July 18, 2010

Instant Oil Spill

With Instant Oil Spill you can have all the same disregard for the environment that big oil does everyday. Simply enter the web address of the site you'd like to contaminate and watch the spill happen.



Instant Oil Spill is a creation of Greener Media.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

2012 And The Most Talked About End Of The World Scenarios


What does the future hold? Will the world end in 2012? Will the Sun put off solar flares to cook the earth? Will global warming be our demise? What are the most bizarre and glorified End of the World Scenarios?

(via Lauren)

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Top 20 Print On Demand Services

Traditional publishing was revolutionised by the advent of print on demand services. As the digital age advanced and new printing and printer ink technology became available the approach to publishing changed. Print on demand has seen a boom as unlike traditional publishing, the technical setup is much quicker, costs are reduced due to low inventory costs and publishers only print the number of books according to the demand.

Print on demand has also become a popular means of creating customised business cards, greeting cards and a variety of other mediums. Here are twenty of the best print on demand services on offer.

(thanks Andy)

Monday, March 2, 2009

6 Ways To Publish Your Own Book


Online self-publishing services have given users the tools they need to create, publish and promote their work.

These sites allow authors to bypass the process of finding an agent and pitching to publishing houses, a venture that can take months, if not years.


Here are six sites that will help you publish your work, guaranteeing you a published book that can be sold via different outlets, such as Amazon.

Monday, January 26, 2009

I Hate The Media


The goal of 'I Hate the Media' is to point out all the bias and the blindness. All the lies and the lunacy. All the fakes and the phonies. All the morons and the myopic.

Day in and day out, we're bombarded by blatant bias. Insulted by idiot anchors. Harangued by Hollywood halfwits. Aurally assaulted by so-called singers.

Television. Radio. Newspapers. Magazines. Films. Music. They all deserve to die slow, painful deaths. Oh, what's that? They are dying slow, painful deaths? Well, in that case, it appears that life really is fair.

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Whole Earth Catalog


The 'Whole Earth Catalog' was published regularly from 1968 to 1972, but only intermittently thereafter. During its four years of regular publication, the Catalog earned a reputation, a following, and a National Book Award, the only time a catalog has been so honored.

Standing with one foot firmly in the rugged individualism and back-to-the-land movements of the Sixties counterculture and the other in the nascent global community made possible by the Internet, the 'Whole Earth Catalog' offered an integrated, complex, challenging, thought-provoking, and comprehensive worldview.

Thursday, October 23, 2008

List Of Multiple Births


A Wkipedia list of multiple births and pregnancies greater than twins, such as triplets (3), quadruplets (5), quintuplets (5), and up to quindecaplets (15).

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Criminal Searches


PeopleFinders.com, the premier online service that helps consumers quickly find and connect with anyone, announced the launch of Criminal Searches. It's a free website that provides consumers with detailed information on people with criminal histories, including sex-related offenses, violent crimes and theft.

Babysitter, nanny, cleaning service, janitor, neighbor, construction workers, school teachers, electrician, plumber, gardener, locksmith, acquaintances, your children's friends. Do you really know who these people are? We associate with them and even invite them in our homes. Do they have a criminal background? Are your children safe with them?

Monday, April 7, 2008

The Smallest Girl In The World


At just 1ft 11 inches tall, she is the smallest girl in the world. But 15-year old Jyoti Amge from Nagpur, India, is far from being unhappy about her tiny size. She says that she enjoys the celebrity status her height has brought her.

Jyoti Amge attends her local high school where she studies alongside classmates of her own age, though she sits at a specially made miniature desk.

Saturday, April 5, 2008

Sun Tzu's 'The Art Of War' Online

Sun Tzu, born around 500 B.C., was a Chinese general, military theorist, and philosopher. He is the author of the world's first and potentially most long-lived work of military theory, The Art of War, also known as The Thirteen Chapters.

Sun Tzu was the first to set out what we would now recognize as principles of war: moral influence, weather, terrain, command, and doctrine. The first meant the trust of people in their leaders. By 'command' he meant the qualities and ability of the general and by 'doctrine' he meant organization, command and control, and logistics.

The Art of War is now online as a PDF document.

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

TimesMachine


TimesMachine can take you back to any issue from Volume 1, Number 1 of The New-York Daily Times, on September 18, 1851, through The New York Times of December 30, 1922.

Choose a date in history and flip electronically through the pages, displayed with their original look and feel.

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

The Year 2007 In Media Errors And Corrections

'Regret the Error' reports on media corrections, retractions, apologies, clarifications and trends regarding accuracy and honesty in the press.

Here are the year 2007 errors and corrections.

Thursday, December 27, 2007

50 Most Loathsome People In America, 2007

From 'The Beast' comes the annual 50 Most Loathsome People in America. From Nicole Richie to Dana Perino and from Bill O'Reilly to George W. Bush.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

8 Non-Athletes Who've Gotta Be On Steroids

From Cracked.com:

A baseball player gets caught using steroids, and suddenly Congress puts the whole government on hold to have hearings about it. But, if a rapper uses steroids, apparently we're supposed to think it's no big deal.

Well, it's a big deal to us, and we're sensing a gross double standard, here. We're going to blow the lid off a steroid scandal that stretches far and wide in the world of non-athletes, and we're not going to let our total lack of evidence slow us down.

Friday, August 10, 2007

Digital Tampering In The Media

In our world of digital information, everything is described by zeros and ones, even photographs. And it's incredibly easy to use computers to alter an image after it is digitized to produce fake ones. Photography lost its innocence many years ago. In as early as the 1930s, shortly after the first commercially available camera was introduced, Stalin had his enemies 'air-brushed' out of photographs.

With the advent of high-resolution digital cameras, powerful personal computers and sophisticated photo-editing software, the manipulation of digital images is becoming more common. Here's a collection of examples of digital tampering in the media, politics, and the law.

(via Dark Roasted Blend)

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

How The Mafia Works

The Mafia has controlled everything from the street corner drug trade to the highest levels of government. Glorified by movies and television, hounded by law enforcement officials, marked for death by their enemies, mobsters live violent and often brief lives. The Mafia at its core is about one thing - money. Still, there are secret rituals, complicated rules and tangled webs of family loyalty.

In this article from 'How Stuff Works' you'll find out how people get into the Mafia, what the Mafia does and what law enforcement agencies have done to stop them. You'll also learn about the important people and events that have shaped this not-so-secret society.

Thursday, July 19, 2007

Signature

Your signature is more powerful than you think. An award winning video from Amnesty International. Winner of the Gold Lion at the Cannes Lions 2007.

This film illustrates graphicaly how a simple signature on a petition can provide real help to victims of torture, abuse, arbitrary imprisonment.


(via Ursi's Blog)