Category: Culture
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I Was Gored by a Bull – Is my life in danger?
That is the very interesting question answered in this article from Slate. Whatever you think about corridas (Spanish bull fights) it may be interesting to look at the consequences of being gored by a bull, like it happens in the encierro of Pamplona (when they free the fighting bulls in the streets to have them…
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Hitchcock film techniques
All about the movie techniques of the giant of suspense film: Hitchcock. How to turn your boring movie into a Hitchcock thriller…
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BibliOdyssey, a quality library
BibliOdyssey is a web site about art in antique prints. You love books, you love quality books, you must stay tuned to BibliOdyssey. Today, I just want to point to one single impressive post there: Drawing on the Renaissance.
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Don’t date Japanese married women
In most circumstances, men should avoid dating married women. There are plenty of good and bad reasons against it. But it’s even more critically true when she is married to a Japanese man. At the very least, you should be ready to face the involved risks, which go much farther than mere STM diseases. Get…
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All the Warner catalog for free
And it does not even look illegal: Warner signed a partnership with imeem to share the adveertisment revenues from the web site when the North American users freely listen to the music freely available from the Warner catalog (including Madonna, Linkin Park, Green Day, Josh Groban, Faith Hill, My Chemical Romance, Big & Rich, John…
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A selection of the best bourbon whiskies
I admit easily having a sweet tooth for single malt whisky (is this really possible?) But it is somewhat worth looking to the American side in order to find a good equivalent: Bourbon. But which one should I choose? The solution: The Best Bourbon Whiskey (from BlueKitchen) is a guide among the best Bourbon alcohols.…
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Massive collection of stunning photographs
The page has been digged so much that they had to move to a different server, but it’s still a very nice collection of impressive photographs (think “saturated colours”) from all origins. I would even suggest that most of them would make great desktop backgrounds for your computer. Link.
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Mac screensavers
They are great those Futurismo Zugaousaku screensavers. This Japanese artist uses Quartz Composer to create works of art on your screen. For Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger).