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Happy New Year!

InRumor.com – that’s the website I’m talking about – published recently a rumor regarding Christina Aguilera’s car accident. They say that “despite the accident, Christina seemed to be in a cheery Christmas spirit, laughing and smiling while she waited for another car to take her home“. That’s a nice thing about Christina; she always takes the hard moments in her life with a smile on her face.

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It’s better at the things you do every day.

The things you do most often on a computer, like browsing the web, checking email, and working with Microsoft Office files, are some of the things a Mac does best.

Apple iMac: The most beautiful computer in the world

Perfect for everyday everything.

A Mac comes with everything you need for your email, calendar, contacts, browsing the Internet, and more. It’s all part of the Mac operating system: Mac OS X Snow Leopard. And if your daily routine includes watching movies and TV shows from iTunes, iMac brings entertainment to your desktop with a brilliant 16:9 widescreen display.

Hardware and software made to work together.

Apple makes the Mac, the software that comes with it, and the operating system that powers it. That makes features like the wireless Magic Mouse possible. Snow Leopard enables Multi-Touch gestures, so you can scroll with one finger or swipe with two.

Works with Windows.

The Mac also opens and works with Microsoft Office applications such as Word and Excel, and even runs Windows — so it’s compatible with the PC world.¹ That includes sharing documents with people who use PCs, printing to just about any printer, and working over Windows networks.

About Michael SandelMichael Sandel is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard, where he has taught political philosophy since 1980. His books include Democracy’s Discontent, Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics, The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering, and, most recently, Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? His writings have been translated into eleven foreign languages and have appeared in The Atlantic, The New Republic, and the New York Times.

First I wanted to name this article “What you loose if you’re not a student at Harvard University”. Though it could be a right title because they have truly some of the greatest teachers in the world, I’ve decided to name it “to the point”.

This is a twelve part series in which Sandel challenges us with difficult moral dilemmas and asks our opinion about the right thing to do. He then asks us to examine our answers in the light of new scenarios. The results are often surprising, revealing that important moral questions are never black and white.

This course also addresses the hot topics of our day – affirmative action, same-sex marriage, patriotism and rights – and Sandel shows us that we can revisit familiar controversies with a fresh perspective.

Visual Things will show you once per week an episode of the Justice Course by Michael Sandel along with the invitation to comment and debate the issues presented.

What’s the right thing to do?

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The front face of the train was created in its own file. The reflections in the windows were added once the train was placed in position within the overall image.
The side of the train car was created in a separate file. Duplicating that file made it easy to add additional cars.
The duplicates required changing the reflections in the windows, the accumulated grime and the car numbers to make each car appear different.

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Symbols, text and logos were created in Adobe Illustrator.

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The grime was created with Spatter brushes, available within the Photoshop brushes palette, which were modified to randomize the effect.
The rust was created with the same Spatter brushes but with Color Dynamics applied. The rust was in a separate layer that was also given a layer style of Inner Shadow to add the dimensional effect of the rust appearing under peeled paint.

“I am very surprised and still can not believe it,” Mueller said in a statement released by her publisher in Germany, where she is widely renowned. “I can’t say anything more at the moment.”

Peter Englund, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, told The Associated Press this week that the secretive Swedish Academy had been too “eurocentric” in picking winners.His predecessor, Horace Engdahl, stirred up heated emotions across the Atlantic when he told the AP in 2008 that “Europe still is the center of the literary world” and the quality of U.S. writing was dragged down because authors were “too sensitive to trends in their own mass culture.”

After Mueller was announced, Englund told AP that “If you are European (it is) easier to relate to European literature. It’s the result of psychological bias that we really try to be aware of. It’s not the result of any program.”

Mueller, 56, made her debut in 1982 with a collection of short stories titled “Niederungen,” or “Nadirs,” depicting the harshness of life in a small, German-speaking village in Romania. It was promptly censored by the communist government. In 1984 an uncensored version was smuggled to Germany, where it was published and devoured by readers. That work was followed by “Oppressive Tango” in Romania but she was eventually prohibited from publishing inside her country for her criticism of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu’s rule and its feared secret police, the Securitate. “The Romanian national press was very critical of these works while, outside of Romania, the German press received them very positively,” the Academy said. Emilia Marta, a 55-year-old teacher who moved into the house in Romania’s Transylvania Banat region where Mueller was born, said the author has yet to return. But the mayor of the 1,600-person village of Nichtidorf said she is welcome anytime and would be greeted with honors. “If she will accept this, of course,” Ioan Mascovescu said.

Mueller, whose father served in the Waffen SS during World War II and whose mother spent five years in a Soviet work camp, is the third European to win the prize in a row and the 10th German, joining Guenter Grass in 1999 and Heinrich Boell in 1972.

Though Englund said the award was not timed to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the fall of communism, that’s how it was perceived by many observers. “By giving the award to Herta Mueller, who grew up in a German-speaking minority in Romania, (the committee) has recognized an author who refuses to let the inhumane side of life under communism be forgotten,” said Michael Krueger, head of Mueller’s publisher Hanser Verlag.

Mueller emigrated to Germany with her husband in 1987, two years before Ceausescu was toppled from power amid the widening communist collapse across eastern Europe.

“This prize is the international recognition of the oppression of what happened in Romania and Eastern Europe,” said Romanian actor Ion Caramitru, an anti-communist who rode atop a tank to the television station in Bucharest during the 1989 revolt and now heads the country’s national theater.

Most of Mueller’s work is in German, but some works have been translated into English, French and Spanish, including “The Passport,” “The Land of Green Plums,” “Traveling on One Leg” and “The Appointment.”

Mueller’s latest novel, “Atemschaukel,” or “Swinging Breath” is up for this year’s German Book Prize, which will be announced Monday.

Mueller is the 12th woman to win the Nobel Prize in literature. Recent female winners include Austria’s Elfriede Jelinek in 2004 and British writer Doris Lessing in 2007.

It’s the first time four women have won Nobel Prizes in the same year. U.S.-based researchers Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol Greider were among the medicine winners and the chemistry prize included Israel’s Ada Yonath.

The prize includes a 10 million kronor ($1.4 million) prize and will be handed out Dec. 10 in the Swedish capital.

The name was inspired by Soviet Sputnik. The cars are often referred to as the Trabbi or Trabi, pronounced with a short a.
Since it could take years (usual waiting time 15 years) for a Trabant to be delivered from the time it was ordered, people who finally got one were very careful with it and usually became skillful in maintaining and repairing it. The life-span of an average Trabant was 28 years. Used Trabants would often fetch a higher price than new ones, as the former were available immediately, while the latter had the aforementioned waiting period of mostly at least ten years.

The Trabant was a steel monocoque design with roof, bootlid/trunklid, bonnet/hood, fenders and doors in Duroplast, a form of plastic containing resin strengthened by wool or cotton. This helped the GDR to avoid expensive steel imports, but in theory did not provide much crash protection, although in crash tests it allegedly performed superior to some contemporary Western hatchbacks. The Trabant was the second car to use Duroplast, after the “pre-Trabant” P70 (Zwickau) model (1954–1959). The duroplast was made of recycled material, cotton waste from Russia and phenol resins from the East German dye industry, making the Trabant the first car with a body made of recycled material.

Source: Wikipedia

The New Trabant nT

The “newTrabi” idea becomes the “Trabant nT” concept car
The new Trabant nT is supposed to emphasize the trend to simplification and ecological responsibility – without abandoning fun, emotion and safety. Its seed money is the publicity, the sympathy and attention, which the brand Trabant attracts. It already has its fans today.

The continuation of the newTrabi story at this year’s IAA in Frankfurt/Main is highly anticipated. In hall 8, the prototype of the “Trabant nT” will be presented to the world public. “We are past the vision– we are in the implementation phase”, emphasizes IndiKar-CEO Ronald Gerschewski, one of the initiators and main actors for the vehicle development. He continues: “Our goal is the series-production-readiness.” In the past two years since Herpa began the “Initiative newTrabi”, they’ve come closer to that goal. The concept is sound and ready for a strong investor to become involved in the serial design and –production. The best-case scenario would see the first “Trabant nT” with electric motor ready for sale in 2012.

Source: trabant-nt.de

Bottom line: I think that the new Trabant nT concept could be a serious contestant of the much known Mini Cooper, VW Beetle, Fiat 500, all these three being the legends of motoring.

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You can see the credits and more information on this movie on
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Anyway, the problem was simple and quite stunning. I had installed – like many others – Deamon Tools. Yeap, that’s right. That tiny-tiny software which enables you to mount CD images to a virtual drive on your computer. They told me to uninstall Daemon Tools first, then restart, then activate. And it worked! Yeeeeyyy

So, again, the steps are:

• Before uninstalling Daemon Tools, go to Start > Run (Win Key + R) and type “msconfig“. The System Configuration will appear. Click on the Startup Tab and deselect Daemon Tools from the list. Restart your computer.
• Go to Start > Control Panel > Programs and Features, search for Daemon Tools and uninstall it.
• Restart your computer.
• You are ready to activate now. You can do that in many ways. What I did was to go to Start > (Right-Click on) Computer and Properties. In the System window which appears, under Windows Activation, click Activate Windows and type your Key (which you’re supposed to have from microsoft.com, when you downloaded the Windows 7 RC).
• That’s it!

Enjoy Windows 7 RC!

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Color Picker is an innovative design of a concept pen that can scan colors from anything around and instantly use the color for drawing. After placing the pen against an object, the user just presses the scan button. The color is being detected by the color sensor and the RGB cartridge of the pen mixes the required inks to create the target color. This superb device will help people to observe the changing colors of nature. With color picker, all range of artists will be able to create a more sensorial and visual insight of their surrounding nature’s colors.

9. Philips Luminaire Chandelier OLED Concept

Philips are continuing their assault on traditional bulbs with the launch of two concept OLED lights, the first a compact table lamp and the second a more impressive chandelier. Both systems use the company’s Lumiblade OLED panels, which offer cool-to-the-touch, pure white illumination.

The Philips Luminaire Chandelier consists of five OLED ‘blades’ balanced out from a thin central pole. Light from the Lumiblades increases as movement around the chandelier is recognized.

Meanwhile a touch-sensitive button on the base of the light fixture controls power, while a proximity sensor is used to control dimming. There’s no word on whether Philips will commercially release the Luminaire Chandelier concept.

8. Optimus Tactus Keyboard

Optimus Tactus does not have physical keys, which means there are no restrictions on their shape and size.
Any part of the keyboard surface can be programmed to perform any function or to display any images.

7. Zero Mouse

Made by Oliver Rosito, it’s one of the most beautiful, most thrilling visual mouse I have ever seen! The revolutionary design of the Zero Mouse combines state of the art design and lightweight materials.

6. Honda Cyborg Legs

Well, actually there are two different gadgets:

The first one is Robo-Legs

Honda’s first foray into robotizing old peoples’ haunches looked pretty tame, but this new one, on which geriatrics are supposed to mount like some sort of meat trophy, feels like a glimpse into a horrible, dystopian future where up is down, right is wrong and grandmas and grandpas amble through Sears on mechanized rectal steeds instead of walkers. The machine, which I’m 90% sure is just the missing half of this Battle Droid from Attack of the Clones, is more a passive support device than it is a set of active robot limbs, though it does have a small electric motor.

Details are a bit sparse for the time being, but Honda claims that the legs transparently reduce the strains of walking, standing and crouching, and should be “as easy to use as a bicycle.” The AP reporter who got to test the robo-legs had this to say about them:

The second one is Walking Assist Device

Honda has developed a gadget that they say could make walking easier for the elderly and others with weak leg muscles. The aptly named Walking Assist Device is a 6 lb. motorized belt with hip sensors that gauge how much help the wearer will need. The motor then gives the wearer an appropriate boost, lengthening his or her stride enough to make walking easier on the legs.

The device’s lithium-ion battery only last two hours on a charge, so don’t expect Grandma to run a full marathon, but some time moseying around the retirement village while looking all cyberpunk will surely make her coolest geriatric in Del Boca Vista.

Take a look at how they act:

5. Tria Wireless Sound System

Thought you have to throw the vinyl collection? Think again!

OK, to summarize, it was designed by Ricardo Baiao from Portugal and it comprises three elements: the vinyl player/ripper, the stereo loudspeakers, and the remote control center. The first one is an elite vinyl player loaded with no less than 4 cartridges, which allow the playback of both sides without having to take the disc out and turning it yourself. Even more, the self-contained cleaning system will ensure a dramatically longer life for both the cartridges and your discs, while the built-in DSP block sports an efficient noise reduction module, which will come in handy when you want to rip a vinyl record.

4. Philips Carousel UltraWidescreen Cinema 21:9 and Ambilight:

Or: what you’re missing without Cinema 21:9 and Ambilight

Check out the 2+ minute new Cinema “interactive movie” which takes you through a fictional movie setup with director, FX supervisor and director of photography chiming in on the importance of cinema widescreen. The interactive bit comes into play as the viewer can switch between 16:9 and turn Ambilight on and off on a simulated screen playing the flick. Cinema 21:9 launches this month in France, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, and Russia. 4000 Euros. If you’re ready to come out of pocket for this 2560×1080p beast.
Curiously, Philips doesn’t have any plans regarding a U.S. release of the UltraWidescreen 21:9.

3. MacBook Touch

Some people were born just for the sake of it. But others are born to create wonders of the world. This “thing” I’m gonna show you is so cool that they could easily named it OMFG.

Designed by Tommaso Gecchelin, MacBook (future – let’s all pray to God – to be released) Touch will be the reason for Apple to build a small but flexible fine piece of machinery. Flexible OLED technology may be the key because it can provide the rich color and resolution density needed for a smaller screen without being a power hog and resists damage by its malleable nature. The thinnest screens now are barely 8mm thick and can fold like a piece of paper.

The core of this concept is a technology he calls iSpine. Like the spine of a book, the tech avoid excessive compression on the screen, yet allows the laptop to sit in multiple viewing positions. Go from a normal laptop with screen and touchscreen board – to a large widescreen canvas for drawing, presentation or movie watching. To keep everything minimal, ports like power, the mini display, and additional USB are externalized on a “Magic Dock” to keep most of the laptop slim and clean of an array of holes and plugs.

Bottom line: I Love It!!! And I don’t have it

2. PSP Game Console

This game console was designed by a fan of PSP and you have to admit that it far more cooler than any existing PSP right now. It’s got a big beautiful screen and an iPhone-like home button on the front, but when it’s slid open it reveals all the necessary buttons for gaming bliss. I think it’s so cool that it makes any other portable game console blush.

1. 4G iPhone

Though it’s not known if this is how it will look, this photo was recently released and I have to say that not only that it’s thinner but it has apparently a bigger screen and a silent toggle switch moved. As for the specs rumors … well it will be , probably, the best phone – again – on the market.
Anyway, we have to keep in mind that until it’s official release, all this are simply speculations.

Yes, that’s right folks, in my opinion, these are the greatest future technology inventions which are going to make our life – if not beautiful – at least easier. I chose the 4G iPhone No. 1 because I think that this piece of machinery changed the notion of gadget itself. We are now taking as a usual thing a touch screen device. Three years ago this feature was available only on the most-expensive-top-notch-state-of-the-art equipment. Nowadays it’s as usual as the coffee in the morning. Which I love, by the way!

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You can evaluate a domain based on its station’s height, width and position:

• Height: A station’s height represents its domain’s success. “Success” refers not only to traffic, but also revenue and trend.
• Width: A station’s width represents the stability of the company behind its domain. However, not every large corporation has a large building. Unless its domain has proven itself as a significant online component, its station remains thin.
• Position: A station’s location on a metro line indicates the group it belongs to. In addition, a station’s position on the map – wether inside the main line, on the main line or outside the main line – indicates wether it is a part of the tech establishment, a traffic hub or an online suburb.

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