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Aqua Tower Reminds Me of Brazil’s Freshwater Desert [Architecture]
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Chicago’s 820-feet-tall
Aqua Tower is one of those buildings that make me dizzy. It looks like a vertical version of the stunning Lençóis Maranhenses, the sterile desert in the north of Brazil, full of turquoise fresh water ponds:
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The architects, however, say that the Aqua Tower is inspired by the limestone outcroppings in the Great Lakes.
Whatever the inspiration was, the building is pretty. Not as pretty as the lençóis, but pretty enough. [ Archdaily]
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Tron Director’s Architecture History Evident In Production Shots [Movies]
March 17, 2010 - 9:48 am
Tags: architecture, director, evident, history-evident, kosinski, movie, movies, production, shots-show, tron, tron legacy
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There’s still nine months until Tron: Legacy hits, but already we can’t stop talking about it .
The Strata Building Runs On Built-In Wind Power [Wind]
March 15, 2010 - 9:40 pm
Tags: building, cooler-nickname, energy, its-energy, posts-tagged, strata, strata building, therazor, wind
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Form, meet function. The 42-story Strata Building —also known by its much cooler nickname, ” The Razor “—will get 8% of its energy from three wind turbines built into its façade
Five Foot Lego Blackberry Adds Punchline Functionality [BlackBerry]
March 13, 2010 - 7:34 pm
Tags: art, blackberry, building, design, lego, legoblackberry, none-solid, projects, punchline, RIM, sawaya, the-work, took-some
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We’re no strangers to the work of Lego master Nathan Sawaya , but his latest creation achieved the impossible: making a Blackberry exciting.
Five Foot Lego Blackberry Adds Punchline Functionality [BlackBerry]
March 13, 2010 - 7:34 pm
Tags: art, building, design, none-solid, punchline, punchline-functionality, RIM, sawaya, the-work, working-flat
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We’re no strangers to the work of Lego master Nathan Sawaya , but his latest creation achieved the impossible: making a Blackberry exciting. It incorporates a working flat screen TV for comfortably displaying video. Clearly he took some artistic liberties
Modern Warfare 2 decoded
March 11, 2010 - 9:07 pm
Tags: afghanistan, been-picked, brazil, during-the-game, english, foreign, game, including-some, kazakhstan, military-jargon, modern, russians, the-foreign, throwing-stun, xbox 360 news forum
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OXM has translated the foreign sayings in Modern Warfare 2, including some of the English military jargon – so we can finally find out what “tangosucker” actually means. With Modern Warfare 2 spanning Brazil, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan and Moscow (not to mention the Russians invading the US), there’s a lot of international jargon flying round.
Modern Warfare 2 decoded
March 11, 2010 - 9:07 pm
Tags: afghanistan, arabic, been-picked, brazil, during-the-game, english, foreign, game, including-some, kazakhstan, military-jargon, modern, russians, throwing-stun, xbox 360 news forum
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OXM has translated the foreign sayings in Modern Warfare 2, including some of the English military jargon – so we can finally find out what “tangosucker” actually means. With Modern Warfare 2 spanning Brazil, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan and Moscow (not to mention the Russians invading the US), there’s a lot of international jargon flying round. OXM has translated the bulk of what you hear during the game, most of which understandably translates to “target destroyed”, “throwing stun grenade” and the like.
Modern Warfare 2 decoded
March 11, 2010 - 9:07 pm
Tags: arabic, been-picked, brazil, during-the-game, english, game, kazakhstan, modern, throwing-stun
Posted in Xbox 360 | No Comments
OXM has translated the foreign sayings in Modern Warfare 2, including some of the English military jargon – so we can finally find out what “tangosucker” actually means. With Modern Warfare 2 spanning Brazil, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan and Moscow (not to mention the Russians invading the US), there’s a lot of international jargon flying round
New Hard Drive Technology Boosts Windows 7, Slows XP
March 11, 2010 - 3:13 am
Tags: advanced-format, aging, architecture, data, drive-equipment, linux, technology, western-digital, Windows 7, windows 7 hard drives, windows 7 news, windows 7 speed
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Hard drive manufacturers are set to improve the speed, capacity, and power consumption of their drives by 2011. While this technology will benefit users of Windows 7 and other modern operating systems, Windows XP users may actually be facing a performance hit by using the new drives.
Seeing The Littlest, Cutest Voltron Of Them All Made Me Melt [Image Cache]
March 8, 2010 - 10:00 pm
Tags: costume, costumes, cutest-voltron, cutie, image cache, left-image500, littlest, put-together, voltron, voltron girl
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If I ever have a daughter, I’m letting her wear any costume she wants. But—in the name of all that is sweet, sugary, and adorable—I hope she wants a Voltron one like this
Seeing The Littlest, Cutest Voltron Of Them All Made Me Melt [Image Cache]
March 8, 2010 - 10:00 pm
Tags: costume, cutest-voltron, cutie, image cache, left-image500, littlest, put-together, voltron, voltron girl, wear
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If I ever have a daughter, I’m letting her wear any costume she wants. But—in the name of all that is sweet, sugary, and adorable—I hope she wants a Voltron one like this.
