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Expobank scandal calendar and other examples of erotic advertising 2008-03-08 13:25:00 Visiting the bank manager used to be a somewhat sobering experience. How times have changed. If Barclays is successful in its £200 million bid for Russia's Expobank, it may find that the assets are more tangible than it had imagined. These scantily-clad employees – ranging from secretaries to senior executives – have spiced up the Moscow-based bank's image with a 2008 calendar that is certain to raise eyebrows with the UK giant. The women, aged between 20 and 33, peeled off to reveal an unexpected side to the world of commerce, with their pictures accompanied by provocative slogans doubling as advertising messages. The models include the bank's chief economist for super-rich VIP clients, Anna Pogodina (Miss March), and her boss, Julia Kovyneva (Miss April), who is sprawled across a be
101-year-old Londoner to run a marathon 2008-03-07 10:02:00 A 101-year-old man is aiming to become the world's oldest competitive athlete by running in the London Marathon.Buster Martin ran the Roding Valley half marathon in Essex in five hours 13 minutes, and is now focusing on London's 26-mile event. The BBC reports that, on finishing the run, the first words of the working plumber were: "Where's my beer?" Mr Martin, who has 17 children, started work again at Pimlico Plumbers in London three years ago because he was bored. Charlie Mullins, managing director of Pimlico Plumbers, said he was "amazed" when Mr Martin appeared at work on Monday morning after his exertions. Buster, who lives in London, made headlines last year when he signed up as an agony uncle for men's magazine FHM, offering guidance to a younger generation. He also found fame when
Morph - mobile phone from the future 2008-03-07 09:50:00 Morph, a concept cell phone
co-developed by Nokia Research Center and the University of Cambridge, is featured in an online display presented in conjunction with "Design and the Elastic Mind," a new exhibition of art-meets-technology advances scheduled to run through May 12 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Morph is intended to demonstrate how nanotechnology might be used to make mobile devices stretchable, flexible, transparent, and easier to keep clean. CREDIT: Nokia Read more:mobile phone
Children pictures alive 2008-03-07 03:47:00 Korean photographer Yeondoo Jung made childish fantasies come true.The best photos of his "Wonderland" photoshoot.See them all here. Read more:Children
Usher leaps to the top of Billboard Hot 100 2008-03-06 16:52:00 Usher writes another record for himself with an incredible 51-1 jump in Billboard
Hot 100! The song "Love In This Club" with Young Jeezy as a featuring artist is a new single from Usher's upcoming album. It also ends Flo Rida's reign on top pushing him down one place to #2 as well as the whole top 4. The only one new entry inside the Billboard Top 10 is Jordin Sparks duet with Chris Brown "No Air" -- it moves 13-6 and is expected to be the main contender for a top spot at the moment. Read more:Usher
Where has the dress gone? 2008-03-06 09:17:00 Enjoy the collection of futuristic dress
es. The last one is especially hot. ;)
500 floor tower in East London? 2008-03-06 04:54:00 Here is another plan for a super-high skyscraper. This time in London. The eco-friendly building, which will be 500 stories high, could house 100,000 non-height-fearing people as well as, schools, hospitals, and stores. The unique aspect to this design, which will be situated in East London, is the giant open spaces or “holes” that will feature green public spaces, complete with gardens and trees. It’s being built by UK company, Popularchitecture. CREDIT: Trendhunter.com
MTV bans new Gnarls Barkley video 2008-03-05 15:34:00 The video
for Gnarls Barkley
's new single, "Run," may feature a cameo from Justin Timberlake, but it's still not quite ready to air on MTV. That's because of its strobe effects, which caused the clip to fail the Harding Test -- guidelines established to prevent TV images from triggering epileptic seizures. CREDIT: Reuters
Very sad news about Patrick Swayze :( 2008-03-05 15:29:00 National Enquirer is reporting the sad news that Dirty Dancing legend Patrick
Swayze is terminally ill with pancreatic cancer and doctors have given the 55-year old actor only five weeks to live: 'In a shocking world exclusive, The NATIONAL ENQUIRER has uncovered the devastating news that the beloved Hollywood actor and dancer was diagnosed in late January with pancreatic cancer that has spread to other organs... He received three doses of chemotherapy and the tumor shrank, but less than his doctors had hoped for — and Patrick was told he should prepare for the end.' CREDIT: MrPaparazzi.com
Don't disappoint the stork 2008-03-04 13:35:00 Brilliant new commercial by BBDO New York for Monster.comMust see!
Electron captured by scientists 2008-03-04 07:22:00 Scientists from Swedish Univeristy of Lund have filmed an electron in motion for the first time, using a new technique that will allow researchers to study the tiny particle's movements directly.Extremely short flashes of light are necessary to capture an electron in motion. A technology developed within the last few years can generate short pulses of intense laser light, called attosecond pulses, to get the job done. And here's the photograph of an electron: Read more:captured
, Electron
, scientists
Sochi 2014 symbol is chosen 2008-03-03 05:40:00 This is official symbol for Sochi 2014 Olympic Games.What can be more weird than Skiing Dolphin? But for the citizens of Sochi it seemed OK. Maybe because they had none to choose from... (just like at the recent Presidantial elections...) Read more:chosen
Look at these boobs! 2008-03-03 04:40:00 Up close, you can see that these photograph consists of some fascinating details -- the entire design is made of plastic dolls. 32,000 Barbies, to be exact. The images, created by photographer Chris Jordan, are more than just art; they are a form of social commentary and send a message backed by frightening statistic. These dolls represent the number of real boobs jobs performed in one month in the United States alone in the year 2006. His goal was to arise awareness of the plasticity and artificiality consuming today’s society. That’s 384,000 breast augmentations in a single year in just one country. CREDIT: Trendhunter.com
Dmitry Medvedev - New President of Russia 2008-03-02 15:04:00 So the new President
of Russia
for the next 4 years is Dmitry Medvedev. He gathered almost 70% of votes in Russia today, March 2, on the Russian President's Elections Day. But who is this politician?Dmitry Medvedev was born September 14, 1965 in Leningrad (St.Petersbourg). He graduated from the Law Department of Leningrad State University in 1987. In 1990 he worked in Leningrad Municipal Soviet of People's Deputies. Between 1991 and 1999 he worked as a docent at his old university, now renamed Saint Petersburg State University. In 1991 - 1996 Medvedev also worked as a legal expert for the Committee for External Relations of the Saint Petersburg Mayor's Office under Vladimir Putin.In November 1993, Medvedev became the legal affairs director of Ilim Pulp Enterprise, a St. Petersburg-based ti
Vantage Point at the top of the US 2008-02-26 11:22:00 'Vantage
Point' storms to the top of the US box office. Starring Matthew Fox, 'Lost' TV-series star, as well as Sigourney Weaver, Dennis Quaid & Forest Whitaker, political thriller/action accumulated $22,8 mln in its first weekend. Here's an international trailer of this film:
Oscars 2008 winners' list 2008-02-25 12:12:00 Best picture - No Country for Old Men----------------------------------------Actor in a leading role - Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood)Actress in a leading role - Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose)Actor in a supporting role - Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men)Actress in a supporting role - Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton)----------------------------------------Directing - No Country for Old Men (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen)Cinematography - There Will Be BloodVisual effects - The Golden CompassCostume design - Elizabeth: The Golden AgeMakeup - La Vie en RoseArt direction - Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet StreetFilm editing - The Bourne UltimatumWriting (adapted screenplay) - No Country for Old MenWriting (original screenplay) - JunoSound mixing - The Bourne UltimatumSound editin Read more:Oscars
H 'two' O feat. Platnum - What's It Gonna Be 2008-02-22 13:09:00 It's Friday night again and I'm happy to present you the hottest dance tune of the week. It's awesome 2step/garage track from British producers H'two'O which is expected to hit the top of the UK singles chart this Sunday.
Peace symbol celebrates 50 years 2008-02-22 10:42:00 Hey, do you know that today it is 50 years jubilee for a PEACE SYMBOL. And do you know what actually it means? So here's the story...It was designed and completed February 21, 1958 by Gerald Holtom, for the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War and was adopted as its badge by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in Britain, and originally was used by the British nuclear disarmament movement. The symbol itself is a combination of the semaphoric signals for the letters "N" and "D," standing for Nuclear Disarmament. These two signals imposed over each other form the shape of the peace symbol. In the original design the lines widened at the edge of the circle. Read more:Peace
Make ringtones yourself with AUDIKO 2008-02-22 10:10:00 Now, getting ringtones for your phone is as easy as never before! Simply choose your fave track, upload or link it to audiko.netm then cut the best fragment and get it as your ringtone! Here's a ringtone I've made in less than 5 minutes:
New blockbuster from Jet Li & Jackie Chan 2008-03-12 15:03:00 "The Forbidden Kingdom" is the first film collaboration between martial arts veterans Jackie
Chan and Jet Li. The plot is. An American teenager who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and kung-fu classics makes an extraordinary discovery in a Chinatown pawnshop: the legendary stick weapon of the Chinese sage and warrior, the Monkey King. With the lost relic in hand, the teenager unexpectedly finds himself traveling back to ancient China to join a crew of warriors from martial arts lore on a dangerous quest to free the imprisoned Monkey King.Production began in early May 2007 in the area around the Gobi Desert in China. When the two martial arts veterans (Chan and Li) did film action scenes together for the first time, they both expressed how easy it was to work with one another."The Forbidde Read more:Jackie Chan
Erotic dance for the dead 2008-03-12 14:16:00 A Taiwanese man hired an erotic dancer to perform at his 103-year-old father's funeral. The stripper danced in front of Cai Jinlai's coffin for more than ten minutes at the funeral in Taizhong town. Son, Cai Ruigong, paid her more than £80 to dance in memory of his late father. Cai Ruigong says he promised his father a stripper for his funeral if he lived beyond the age of 100.His son said his father was famous locally for his interest in strip clubs: "He would travel around the island with his friends to see these shows," he added. CREDIT: Ananova
Control video games by your thoughts 2008-03-12 07:01:00 The future is here! Playing video
games by thought alone will soon be possible with this brain controlled headset.Emotiv has developed technology it believes could have as profound an effect on our relationship with the material world as anything since we began to use machines to improve our lives. Although this technology will first be seen next year in video games, the company is talking about extending its use to almost every aspect of our lives. Emotiv is no fly-by-night outfit. Its founders include Allan Snyder, a renowned Australian neuroscientist. Randy Breen, the chief product officer, was previously head of development at LucasArts, the video games company of Star Wars director George Lucas. The prototype headset has 16 sensors that attach to various points on the head so it can p Read more:Control
, thoughts
The deadly sins updated 2008-03-11 14:17:00 In olden days, the deadly
sins included lust, gluttony and greed. Now, the Catholic Church says pollution, mind-damaging drugs and genetic experiments are on its updated thou-shalt-not list. Also receiving fresh attention by the Vatican was social injustice, along the lines of the age-old maxim: "The rich get richer while the poor get poorer."In the Vatican's latest update on how God's law is being violated in today's world, Monsignor Gianfranco Girotti, the head of the Apostolic Penitentiary, was asked by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano what, in his opinion, are the "new sins."He cited "violations of the basic rights of human nature" through genetic manipulation, drugs that "weaken the mind and cloud intelligence," and the imbalance between the rich and the poor."If yesterday s
Highlight the personality 2008-03-11 05:29:00 Great advert from India! Awesome!Product : Luxor Highlight
ers Agency : Leo Burnett Mumbai Country : India Typographer: Kunal Mhabadi, Santosh Padhi Creative Director: Santosh Padhi Creative Director: KV Sridhar Copywriter: Santosh Padhi, Russell Barrett Illustrator: Kunal Mhabadi
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