October 03 2007

Choice Links

posted by Ana Samways at 11:04 am

futuristsFrench futurists: The National Library of France (BnF) has an amazing collection of prints from 1910 which depict life in the year 2000… including this one showing the modern school…

Sweden is full of robbers, Germans are unclean and Spaniards are cruel, at least according to a series of 19th Century children’s guides to the world by a woman, Favell Lee Mortimer, who ironically didn’t travel much. Read more here

The World’s Weirdest/Stupidest Conspiracy Theories: Including the one which reckons George H.W. Bush was really a Nazi sent to destroy America as a teenager and adopted… read here

The New York Times has a story on the how being married is ruining health…

The iconic VW goes hybrid

Nice photos: Roo takes a dip in the Pacific

A television journalist was charged yesterday with abetting suicide after he allegedly persuaded a depressed businessman to kill himself and his family live on camera

For a nation of SMEs (Small to Medium Enterprise) here’s how to recreate a thriving office environmentat home…

The New Science of Eating is a great Wired article with some great tips to stop our mindless eating and desktop dining…

Video: Dove’s Onslaught ad is a follow-up to their Evolution ad showing a sped-up process of getting a model ready for publication. It’s well worth watching and pretty much sums up why I’d be terrified of bringing up a daughter…

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