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Five days ago, in the northeastern port city of Dalian, China, two oil pipelines exploded, sending flames hundreds of feet into the air and burning for over 15 hours, destroying several structures – the cause of the explosion is under investigation. The damaged pipes released thousands of gallons of oil, which flowed into the nearby harbor and the Yellow Sea. The total amount of oil spilled is still not clear.

An info-graphic for any coffee lover. Via

This winter already 13 homeless people died on Berlin streets. The motz & Co e.V. now launched their Survival Collection during Fashion Week – a jacket made out of newspapers to draw attention to this problem and raise donations. Via

While people all over the world are marking the 75th anniversary of the birth of Elvis Presley, we would like to give a big shout out to a treasure who is still with us – University of Cambridge professor emeritus Stephen Hawking, who turned 68 years old on January 8. Hawking is a theoretical physicist who is regarded as one of the most intelligent men alive.

We finally managed to recover most of our content, upgraded the blogdesign and asked Mr. Boba Fett to bring in that admin that deleted all our websites by ‘accident’. There is still some CSS debugging to do including the final steps on our corporate site but it’s a start for 2010. Happy new fear!

The illicit drug market worldwide has become a $320 billion-per-year industry. As drug-related violence in Mexico appears to continue unabated, new efforts are also being made worldwide in methods of enforcement and treatment of recovering addicts.

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How the planet will recover from us. Via

A prisoner is walked into the center of a group of officers and posed by the police so that he is down in front on both knees. The officer who is taking the photograph is wearing a white shirt. In New York City this would mean that he is a supervisor. Via

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See also people answering the same question in London and another question from last summer in New York.

For the upcoming days: If you should get fed up with too much food, annoying relatives and inadequate presents and like to have some distraction of all that christmas mayhem you might want to check HOPE/GLORY TV where you will get a glimpse of our cozy studio and shuffle through all that clips that make us smile, relax, bounce and often just scratch our heads.

Hands up! Via

…he says. I hope for the best. Via

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This is the next installment of the infamous 1999 Budweiser spot. Made you laugh back then, it’s now back with a twist.

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Photographer James Nachtwey worked for nearly two years to finally release a story which is now public on XDRTB.org. Its mission is to create awareness about a new extremely drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis which is killing one person every 20 seconds around the world – and it is completely preventable.

New Orleans filmmaker Benjamin Reece asks fifty New Orlean’s residents a single question: “If you could wish for one thing to happen by the end of the day, what would it be?”.

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Krooked and Vans pro rider Van Wastell died this Friday in an accident in Berlin at the age of 24.

Tough decision but give it a try (in no particular order):

The Highlife Movement – Estuary
Buck 65 – Square
Inside Out – No Spiritual Surrender
Alias – Muted
Boards Of Canada – Music Has The Right To Children
Radiohead – Kid A
RJD2 – Since We Last Spoke
Jan Jelinek – Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records
N.W.A. – N.W.A. And The Posse
UNKLE – Psyence Fiction
Portishead – Portishead
The Grouch – Making Perfect Sense
Blade Runner – Soundtrack
Apparat – Multifunktionsebene
Anti Pop Consortium – The End Against The Middle
DJ Shadow – Endtroducing…
Massive Attack – Mezzanine
Lootpack – Soundpieces: Da Antidote
Wu-Tang Clan – Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Hijack – The Horns Of Jericho

“Let’s get some things straight before I get old and uncool.” Via.

The definitive city guide for the mobile generation: Berlin, Vienna, Barcelona, Copenhagen. Additional cities to come are London, New York, Shanghai and Hong Kong.

Long live the king.

An artificial appropriation of different styles from different eras, the hipster represents the end of Western civilization – a culture lost in the superficiality of its past and unable to create any new meaning. Not only is it unsustainable, it is suicidal. While previous youth movements have challenged the dysfunction and decadence of their elders, today we have the “hipster” – a youth subculture that mirrors the doomed shallowness of mainstream society. Via

By Project No. 8. $1 each. All proceeds donated to the Obama General Election Campaign.

The basic idea of Brand Tags is that a brand exists entirely in people’s heads. This is what people think a brand is and what it stands for. The results are shown in huge tag clouds.