Los Angeles: Shooting It Like a Pro Santa Monica Beach. 50 Kick-Ass Websites You Need to Know About. It's time to update the entries in your browser's links toolbar. But with recent estimates putting the size of the internet at well more than 100 million distinct websites, it's getting harder and harder to get a handle on all the great stuff that's out there. That's why we've compiled this list. And unlike some lists you may have seen, which try to name the very "best" websites, but end up just telling you a lot of stuff you already know, we've chosen instead to highlight 50 of our favorite sites that fly under most people's radar. Think of it as the Maximum PC blog roll (remember those?). These sites represent great alternatives to popular web destinations like YouTube and Hulu, and include useful references, powerful web apps, and the unknown blogs you must absolutely bookmark.
You might have heard of some of these sites, but we'll bet you haven't heard of all them. Demoscene.tv See What Can Be Done with 4 Kilobytes lite.Facebook.com Clutter-Free Social Networking You can admit it. BrainBang. AWOL Tigger, or a Soviet Take on the World-Famous Cartoon Characters. At Raven, we experiment a lot. We consider our projects as our own version of skunkworks. Sometimes the experiments are driven by mere curiosity, while others are meant to see how far we can push the boundaries of a service. All of our experiments have one common element, problem solving. When we first created the kl.am URL shortener, we did it to solve a problem. Campaign variables are great, because you can assign a source, medium, and name, like Twitter and/or Social Media Campaign. So campaign variables is the main reason we built kl.am, period.
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Often the translators took the liberty of changing the plot of the storyline: this is how the famous book by A. Milne “Winnie the Pooh” in its Russian version features no Tigger yet there are some extra characters not from the original script. Arguably, it allowed the translator to become somewhat of an author and hence their name went onto the book cover (this is what happened to the Russian version of The Wizard of Oz). As cartoon making was one of the most developed (and certainly less censored ones) graphic arts, it can be of interest to see how the Russian animators saw the traditional Western fairy tales characters.
Piglet, Winnie the Pooh and Rabbit. 1969 Little Red Riding Hood Dr Doolittle. 1984. Jennifer Lin improvs piano magic. 1 million fps Slow Motion video of bullet impacts made by Werner Mehl from Kurzzeit. Dollar smashes another high mark - Business. The New Zealand dollar has again set a new 15-month high this morning - the second time in a few days it has done so. The kiwi has passed through the US76c mark.
By 8am the NZ dollar was buying US76.21c, having peaked an hour earlier at a 15-month high near US76.35c. That follows its close of around US75c last night. Support for the kiwi is being largely driven by a weak US dollar. This morning on Radio Live, banking and finance commentator Bernard Hickey said it's not out of the question to contemplate the kiwi valued at dollar-for-dollar with the greenback one day soon. "It will hurt exporters a lot - but this is great news for anyone thinking about buying a consumer product or planning that trip overseas", Hickey said.
"It's all because the American dollar is fast losing ground as an index currency. " The last time the kiwi hit 76 US cents was July 22 last year when it was trading at 76.11 US cents. But ANZ said it appeared the market was reading too much into the comments. Совок внутри. Если котик кажется милым — это паразит диктует вам свою волю. Фотография: Thinkstock Мы привыкли, что котики милые. Сама мысль о том, что котики являются ничем иным, как гнездовым паразитом, не приходит в голову обычному человеку.
Но давайте посмотрим в лицо фактам, как бы сильно они не противоречили нашему личному опыту, эмоциям и интуиции. Котики умело манипулируют сознанием хозяев, формируя у тех устойчивую зависимость от общения с собой, и получая взамен корм, защиту и помощь в распространении. Кандидат биологических наук и научный журналист Александр Панчин рассказал о механизмах котогнездового паразитизма, и тех уловках, благодаря которым пришельцу удается убедить хозяина в том, что он — член семьи, а значит нуждается во всей доступной еде, любви и заботе. ( О котанах, жуках-извращенцах и природе влеченияRéduire ) Обсудить в блоге автора. No description available. The Tuts+ Network has teamed up with MySuiteStuff to hold a network-wide pillowriffic giveaway!
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Russia has a rich cultural history and a sometimes brutal military legacy and for most Americans, it remains the “undiscovered” country. Russia’s economy has been in a state of flux since before the Bolshevik revolution but it is interesting to note how the differences in geography, population, and the role of the military ultimately play into the entire economic relationship.
A country with that many Grandmasters can’t be counted out. In order to help compare and contrast the economic differences, we have simplified the data from the CIA World Factbook and NationMaster.com. For more personal finance visualizations see: WallStats.com. Остров Вайхики - Раздел пейзаж. Works. ADMCi Identity Bastian+Skoog Website Betsy Smith Worldwide Identity & Website Bienville Blackbird Restaurant Identity & Menus Brush & Stuff Poster Caldrea Branding & Packaging Circus Art Print Cloudy Collection Letterpress Print Collections Illustration Set Copylicious Icons Digg Labs 365 Web Experience Eli, no! Children’s Book Engler Studio Flashbelt Branding Flowers Happy Holidays Signage Illustrations Happy Hours Letterpress Invitation Harvard Business Review Booklet HelloWallet Illustration & Website High Noon Entertainment Hobo Jungle Branding, Illustrations & Icons Holiday Cheer Postcard Set Infinite Possibilities Invoko Jonathan Chapman Newsprint Laurie Hefner Hair Logo Manifest Notecards Minnesota Opera Imagine Opera Website Minnesota Orchestra eTour 2009 Blog MyGofer Brand Illustrations New York Set Art Prints Office Old Navy SnapAppy Olive Juice Studios P/K Architecture Purina ONE Pets Rock Poster Sugar Summer Target Career Icons Gift Card Collection Shaun White Website Visa Gift Cards Wellness Gift Card The Institute of Awesome Brand illustration.
Katie Kirk Illustration. Paul Debevec animates a photo-real digital face. Designing Flex 3 skins and styles using Creative Suite 3 and Flex Builder 3 | Adobe Developer Connection. GUIdebook > Screenshots. A history of conflicts. Однофотопост. Viticulture of the Soviet Union in Old Ad Posters. The culture of wine making had a long and rich history in the Soviet Union, and its high profitability always ensured an incredible deal of governmental support.
Due to the climate restrictions grapes suitable for wine-making grew in the Southern areas of the country: Crimea in the Ukraine, the valley of Ararat in Armenia, as well as the republics of Moldova, Georgia and Azerbaijan. After the war there was a special development plan of getting the country to the top of the world wine leaders — which was a success. By 1969 the USSR was on the fourth place in Europe by the amount of wine produced (right after France, Italy and Spain).
The vast territories of the country’s South allowed for almost 10% of the total amount of wine produced in the world around that time. Sadly, starting from the 1970s, the quality was to be sacrificed for quantity: the priority to grow was given to higher-yielding sorts of grapes and not the rare, more valuable ones. Viticulture of the Soviet Union in Old Ad Posters. Nz_brick_bay_hedgehog_IMG_0833[1] Photography Blog Black Star Rising. Artem Verbovikov, interactive developer. SEO FAQ.
In Q&A, SEO on 13 October 2009 So yesterday I had a bit of a rant about SEO and I’ve gotten a few common questions so I thought I’d try to answer them. Here goes. Gosh you seem angry. Damn right. I publish a magazine and I know a lot of magazine publishers. And they are forking over embarrassing sums of money to charlatans who say they can raise their search engine rankings. If you’re a company that’s about to pay some SEO expert, please, I beg you, take that money and hand it to a talented writer or competent web developer instead. Did you just quit smoking or something?
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Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody [ High Definition ] No description available. Пейте, дети, М+ Yes, weekend! Низкоуровневое планирование. Получить эту фотографию в полном формате. — АПЧХИ АПЧХИ, — отзываются эхом американские города и поселки.— БУДЬТЕ ЗДОРОВЫ БУДЬТЕ ЗДОРОВЫ. «Идеальный слуга», Уильям Берроуз Здесь в Окленде в городской библиотеке распродают старые книги. Несколько столов завалены пахнущими пылью старыми книгами всех жанров, размеров и цветов. Набрав сборников рассказов, одобренных журналом Лондон, я поехал домой. Когда-то давно, сидя в академгородковской хрущёвке по улице Академической я насмотрелся на фотографии из холмистого Сан-Франциско, красного Большого Каньона, хвойные леса реднекского Вайоминга, небоскрёбы заснеженного Нью-Йорка. Английский язык я учил по сериалам «Секс в большом городе», «Секретные материалы» и, конечно же — «Друзья» Десять сезонов по двадцать серий в каждом — три раза подряд.
Может быть для кого-то это станет новостью, но переезд и закрепление в «Кивиляндии» — часть многолетнего плана по выбору места для жизни. Впрочем, не обойтись без ложки дёгтя. Поживём, увидим. Welcome to Google Docs. Алина - Конкурс ФОТОГРАФЫ ЖЖ - финал !!! Мы уже встречались с фотоблогами в проекте, в успешных конкурсах Живая Природа и Портрет + Жанр. Но замечательных мастеров так много, что мы решили пригласить их еще раз.
Больше двухсот блогов посмотрели народные эксперты, их выбор подтвердили ( или нет) зрители. В финале 23 фотоблога. В этот раз мы решили, что фотографы расскажут о себе сами - своими работами и текстами. Невозможно выбрать * самую - самую* из сотен работ, поэтому выбор * представительских* фотографий произволен. Победителей всех номинаций определит суперфинал года, которым и завершится проект. Золотые лауреаты d_konstantinov dima_chatrov gexxx kkaplin ma_ffi pavel_kosenko stalker_rea stas_kulesh taler tanusha vero_ignatova Серебряные лауреаты bulka champ2007 eto_ja ilinavicktoria la_pez lebedeff luxmilita ___nina___ pollika retroatelier soltero zertrix Избранные работы d_konstantinovБудучи зоологом много путешествовал по стране.
Gexxx Как словами передать эмоции? Pavel_kosenkoВ основном журнал посвящён моим интересам - фотографии и путешествиям. — ! Blow Me Away. Rory Sutherland: Life lessons from an ad man. Amp;mdash; What problems does Google Wavesolve? There are countless pundits and other tech gurus describing Google Wave as a disappointment, lately. Most of that seems to come from the fact that nobody seems to get what Wave is for. So they compare it to social media. Is Wave the next Twitter? Nope. Is it the next Facebook? I believe this is partly Google’s fault: they released Wave to geeks and hackers and social media folks first. At Woobius, we’ve been working at resolving the problems with email for some time. What’s the problem with email, anyway? To most geeks, the main problem with email is spam. But then again, most geeks don’t do all that much document-based collaboration, by email or otherwise. In your average corporate environment, though, this happens all the time.
So what are the problems with email in a corporate environment, and what does Wave do to address them? Problem 1: Collaborating on a piece of text Google Wave resolves that by effectively integrating Etherpad’s features into the email client. Conclusion. Calvin Harris & The Humanthesizer. Opera Unite. JPG: Photos: "Bridge" by Markus Vollmer. Heroes never die, they just reload. CSS Differences in Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 Smashing Magazine. Advertisement One of the most bizarre statistical facts in relation to browser use has to be the virtual widespread numbers that currently exist in the use of Internet Explorer versions 6, 7 and 8. As of this writing, Internet Explorer holds about a 65% market share combined across all their currently used browsers. In the web development community, this number is much lower, showing about a 40% share. The interesting part of those statistics is that the numbers across IE6, IE7, and IE8 are very close, preventing a single Microsoft browser from dominating browser stats — contrary to what has been the trend in the past.
Due to these unfortunate statistics, it is imperative that developers do thorough testing in all currently-used Internet Explorer browsers when working on websites for clients, and on personal projects that target a broader audience. This article does not discuss: Any item that is not supported by any of the three browser versionsProprietary or vendor-specific CSS Example Bugs. | , | TopCareer.ru. Если вкратце, то суть такова: в России работают на результат, в Зеландии на процесс. Огромную разницу между этими двумя подходами я почувствовал на себе, устроившись в небольшую, но активно развивающуюся веб-компанию Rad3.com.
Время было кризисное, с работой не очень хорошо, поэтому сразу меня на постоянную позицию не взяли. Одно из важнейших здесь понятий — уверенность в завтрашнем дне. Как-то так получается, что с детства гражданам вбивают в головы — нет ничего хуже нестабильности. Недобросовестного Афоню очень сложно выгнать. Всех этих сложностей можно избежать, если Афоню сократить, официально удалив его должность из реестра. Закончив отступление, подчеркну, что постоянная работа — это стабильность и не больше 10% зарплатного прироста в год. В Новой Зеландии тема денег — табу. Общая практика такова, что даже в крупных компаниях вроде Телекома два человека, занимающих одну позицию, могут получать по-разному. Деньги не должны и не могут быть стимулом, как считают киви.