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Daft Punk and 'Random Access Memories': Music Reviewing in the Leaked-Album Era. Daft Punk’s “Random Access Memories” was recorded over the span of five years and in three cities.

Daft Punk and 'Random Access Memories': Music Reviewing in the Leaked-Album Era

It cost the duo and Sony, at a conservative estimate, over a million dollars to produce and promote. Along with the permanent Daft Punk members, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, the album features famous musicians not known for wearing bespoke helmets and referring to themselves as robots: Pharrell Williams, Nile Rodgers, and the seventies schmalz merchant Paul Williams, among others.

All of the rivers. Book-lined staircase. Supermoon: the perigee moon of 2012. Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race 2012. Signs of Spring: 2012. Seemingly strange weather patterns continue to break high and low temperature records.

Signs of Spring: 2012

The same patterns spawned an early tornado season in the midwestern United States and brought late season snowstorms to the west. Record snow falls and frigid temperatures characterized a particularly difficult winter across Europe with many deaths attributed to the conditions. How to drug a woman to make her more accepting of doing housework - Boing Boing - Aurora. America, Syria and the UN: This is what foreign-policy success looks like. NASA releases "most amazing high-definition" photo of earth, from space. Suren Manvelyan : droit dans les yeux des animaux. Plongeons les yeux dans les yeux d’animaux, grâce à l’impressionnante série “Animal Eyes” de Suren Manvelyan.

Suren Manvelyan : droit dans les yeux des animaux

Le scientifique et photographe arménien Suren Manvelyan aime s’approcher au plus près des yeux dans ses séries. Après sa célèbre série sur les yeux humains, Manvelyan s’est attaqué à ceux des animaux, tout aussi impressionnants et plus variés. Sans aller (tout de suite) sur le site de l’auteur ni passer votre curseur sur les images, saurez-vous reconnaître ces animaux ?

Nous vous donnons le choix entre : cheval, hamster, caïman, siamois, python, chat, chien husky, poisson, poisson crayfish et iguane. All The Little (But Awesome) Things You Definitely Missed At CES. Quick study: Alastair Smith on political tyranny: How to be a dictator. ALASTAIR SMITH is professor of politics at New York University.

Quick study: Alastair Smith on political tyranny: How to be a dictator

The recipient of three grants from the National Science Foundation and author of three books, he was chosen as the 2005 Karl Deutsch Award winner, given biennially to the best international-relations scholar under the age of 40. He is co-author of “The Dictator's Handbook: How Bad Behaviour is Almost Always Good Politics” (2011). To whom do your guidelines apply? Everyone. This Cat Might Be Better At Fruit Ninja Than Your Kids. Carved Book. Voici le projet de Guy Laramee qui transforme une pile de livres en de véritable sculptures grace à ses talents. Un résultat magnifique, réalisé avec minutie et beaucoup de détails. L’ensemble est à découvrir dans la suite de l’article à travers une série de visuels. Photos of the Year 2011 by Reuters. Egyptian blogger Aliaa Elmahdy: Why I posed naked. A crop of the nude photo of Aliaa Magda Elmahdy posted on Twitter and on her blog.

Egyptian blogger Aliaa Elmahdy: Why I posed naked

CNN Exclusive: Egyptian blogger Aliaa Magda Elmahdy tells CNN why she posed naked Elmadhy says she posed naked because she is not afraid of being a woman despite harassment in EgyptShe says her Muslim parents want to support her; her father always hated the way she dressed Elmadhy: I am a believer of every word I say and I am willing to live in danger under the many threats I receive Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- Egyptian blogger Aliaa Magda Elmahdy has become a household name in the Middle East and sparked a global uproar after a friend posted a photo of her naked on Twitter.

The photo, which the 20-year-old former student first posted on her blog, shows her naked apart from a pair of thigh-high stockings and some red patent leather shoes. It was later posted on Twitter with the hashtag #nudephotorevolutionary. Dead Sea Salt Formations. The Dead Sea's salinity of 33.7 percent makes it 8.6 times saltier than the ocean.

Dead Sea Salt Formations

Bordering Israel, the West Bank and Jordan, it is 423m below sea level, making it the lowest place on land on Earth. A tourist hotspot for millennia, more than 1m visitors a year visit on the Israeli & Palestinian side alone. The view from the shore is one thing, but from the air, the sheer strangeness of the salt formations in and around the lake become readily apparent. Photos by Baz Ratner, of Reuters, and others. Brice Portolano. Japanese vending machine doubles as WiFi hotspot. Runoff races to further shape makeup of Egyptian parliament - CNN.com - Aurora. An Egyptian man votes on November 29 in the country's first elections since the fall of long-time President Hosni Mubarak.

Runoff races to further shape makeup of Egyptian parliament - CNN.com - Aurora

NEW: Carter may lead a delegation to Egypt next monthThe administrative court has asked for cancellations in Alexandria, Cairo and AssiutIslamist parties did well last week, in the first round of votingIsraeli leaders call last week's results "troubling," say Egypt shouldn't alter its relations Cairo (CNN) -- Egypt's complex elections continued Monday, with 104 candidates vying for 52 seats in a runoff for the lower house of parliament.