Tasoblog!Tasoblog!A personal blog from a Greek guy that lives in Istanbul. Everything that interests me is here. Articles
Play this web game and do something good for the world...
2007-11-10 20:23:00 An internet word game has generated enough rice to feed 50,000 people for one day, the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) has said. The game, FreeRice, tests the vocabulary of participants. For each click on a correct answer, the website donates money to buy 10 grains of rice. Companies advertising on the website provide the money to the WFP to buy and distribute the rice. from bbcnews.comtry it yourself www.freerice.com More About: Play , Game , The World , Good
Thunder! Thunder! ThunderCATS! Hoooo
2007-11-06 19:03:00 I brought up with this wonderful tv-series of the 80's. In 2010 a "Thunder cats" movie will be released and this makes me really happy... I love hollywood sometimes ... More About: Hunde
Gisele 'rejects dollar pay'
2007-11-06 18:42:00 The world's richest model has reportedly reacted in her own way to the sliding value of the US dollar - by refusing to be paid in the currency. Gisele Bündchen is said to be keen to avoid the US currency because of uncertainty over its strength.According to Brazil's weekly magazine Veja, when Ms Bündchen signed a deal to represent Pantene hair products, she demanded that the brand owner, Procter & Gamble (P&G), paid her in euros.There are also reports that she will be paid in euros for a deal with Dolce & Gabbana to promote its The One fragrance. "Contracts starting now are more attractive in euros, because we don't know what will happen to the dollar," Patricia Bündchen told Bloomberg. from bbcnews.comGo go euro! :-) More About: Dollar
Mac OS X Leopard praised by critics
2007-11-03 20:21:00 Apple's recently released OS is "by far the best operating system ever written" according to PC Magazine!In his 4.5-star (out of 5) review of Leopard , Edward Mendelson (pcmag.com) maintains that Leopard is “by far the best operating system ever written for the vast majority of consumers, with dozens of new features that have real practical value.”read the review here and watch here the official guided tour More About: Critics , Critic
Cate Blanchett in the i-D magazine
2007-11-03 20:13:00 eye-catching! More About: Magazine , Cate Blanchett , Cate , Blanchett
I'm back...
2007-11-03 19:56:00 ...to blogging!After a long time of "no-posting" it's time to return back to action. As a soldier (serving my country -Greece- in the Air Force) I had to be away from my base and be trained for Air Force policeman. I successfully graduated and from now on you will be able to see more interesting news, videos and photos from what interests me (if you will browse this blog you will see what I mean by that).No more talking, let's continue blogging! -this was "cheezy"... More About: Back
Get Radiohead's new album, free of charge!
2007-10-14 10:22:00 Yes! You read the title correct and there's nothing illegal!Radiohead decided to "sell" their new highly praised album "In Rainbows" through their website.But there's no fixed price in order to get it. Actually there is a price, the "pay-what-you-want" price. You are entering the amount of money you want to give in order to download legally the album. You can even enter 0 and download it for free!Just try it and enjoy one of the best albums of the year! More About: Free , Charge , Album , Adio , Char
Blog Action Day
2007-10-14 09:37:00 Today is the day...It's a historic day for the bloggers around the world.Over 14 thousand websites and blogs decided to take action and try to save the planet from Global Warming!On October 15th, every blogger will post about the environment in their own way and relating to their own topic.But let's learn some simple steps we can all take to save energy and fight Global Warming:Raise your voice.Choose an efficient vehicle.Drive smart.Drive less.Buy energy-efficient appliances.Replace your light bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs.Weatherize your home or apartment.Choose renewable energy.Buy clean energy certificates.for more information, click here More About: Action , Blog
Duet
2007-10-07 16:09:00 Something interesting...modern and classical merge in a sky-blue scenery at the first peep of dawn...
Is America right to demonise President Ahmadinejad of Iran?
2007-09-27 02:32:00 Why are we asking this question now?Because of the furore surrounding the visit of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to New York for the UN general assembly session. He was greeted by headlines in the New York tabloids which screamed "The Evil has Landed" and "Madman Iran Prez". How did he do?He set out the policy of Iran's "peaceful" nuclear programme, and responded to questions about his troubling statements concerning his denial of the Holocaust and on seeking the destruction of Israel. But he destroyed his own credibility by asserting, in response to a question, that "in Iran, we don't have homosexuals like in your country". So was the US right to try to silence him?Of course not. The president of Columbia University, Lee Bollinger, undermined his own case for freedom of speech in his insulting introduction in which he described the university's guest as exhibiting "all the signs of a petty and cruel dictator" and expressed the hope that Mr Ahmadinejad would not remain in office.... More About: America , Resident
VW tube?
2007-09-25 20:41:00 Do you remember the famous VW bus from the 60s? Here is an interesting new version exclusively developed for cool metros around the world :-)Photoshop did it again... More About: Tube
Too much sleep as dangerous as too little: study
2007-09-25 20:25:00 Sleeping too much, just like sleeping too little, could be linked to a person's risk of an early death, a new British study indicates. With seven hours seen as the optimal amount of sleep for the average adult, the study subjects who cut the duration of their sleep from seven hours to five hours a night had a 1.7-fold increased risk of death from all causes within the ensuing 11-17 years, according to the research. They also had twice the increased risk of death from a cardiovascular problem.More surprisingly, scientists found those individuals who increased the number of hours they slept per night from seven to eight hours or more were more than twice as likely to die within 11-17 years as those who kept sleeping for seven. They were more likely to die from non-cardiovascular diseases.read more for this study here More About: Study , Sleep , Dangerous
The World's Weirdest/Stupidest Conspiracy Theories
2007-09-25 20:13:00 The driver shot JFK.The Beatles were designed and sent to the U.S. by the British Psychological Warfare Division, to undermine the morals of American teenagers.Christ's Crucifixion was staged. Christ eloped with Mary Magdalene, and one or both of them fled to France to raise their family.HIV/AIDS was created in a lab.Man never landed on the moon. It's not even possible. But there is an alien base there. Stephen King killed John Lennon.WWII was staged. It never really happened. The Illuminati employed elaborate special effects, stage magic, and phony journalism to scare the world into pacifism.Queen Elizabeth I was a man. The real Elizabeth died as a child.The 1939 War of the Worlds radio broadcoast was a psychological warfare study funded by C.D. Jackson on behalf of the Rockefeller Foundation, designed to find out how Americans would react to an enemy invasion. Funny... in a trailer for his mockumentary F is for Fake, Orson Welles did say the WoW broadcast had "secret sponsors".A... More About: Conspiracy , Conspiracy Theories , Theories , Theo
Columbia President Bollinger Introduces Ahmadinejad
2007-09-25 13:37:00 Just watch it... America's hospitality is outrageously ridiculous and dangerous. Ridiculous is the guy that speaks in this video and dangerous are the supporters of the massacres of the US all these years. Iran is not "clean" but US is far more dangerous for the world than them. Why a flawed nation (as Iran is) cannot have a nuclear program (or even atomic bombs) while a more flawed and dangerous for the global peace US can have whatever they want? Since when they can judge and not be judged? More About: President , Columbia , Ahmadinejad , Bollinger , Resident
"Google trends" shows you the real winners
2007-09-25 13:13:00 This is a really useful service from google that allows you to add to variables (seperated by comma) and compare their search volume in the google's searches. By clicking enter you can see a graph like that:The graph shows who is the real winner in the "3rd generation war of the consoles".The service allows you to compare whatever you want and even select the country and year of search.Just try anything you want. Who will be the winner between "WWI" and "WWII"? Surprise, surprise (?)... More About: Google , Trends , Google Trends , Winners , Real
Clockwork Orange
2007-09-24 23:22:00 "Clockwork Orange ". A cult masterpiece from Stanley Kubrick. A personal favourite... please watch the film and fall in love!for more about this film click here.
Daft Punk's Electroma
2007-09-24 18:05:00 This video is the final and touching scene of the latest film of Daft Punk, "Electroma ". A film that cannot expressed in words, neither bad or good. You just have to watch it... even in fast forward...
Barcelona's Camp Nou set for redevelopment
2007-09-24 17:14:00 FC Barcelona unveiled plans for a new-look Camp Nou at the weekend with club president Joan Laporta promising the stadium will be a "world reference point".The new plans mark the arena's third major upgrade. First opened on 24 September 1957, to replace the old Les Courts Stadium, the new-look Camp Nou will boast a dramatic Antoni Gaudí-inspired façade and is being reworked by English architect Sir Norman Foster. "It's a personal project," said Foster, who also designed the new Wembley Stadium. "I have based this on three inspirations: football, the city of Barcelona and Catalunya, and Barça.The stadium will have ten extra levels, using a cable structure which will protect spectators from the wind and rain but it will be flexible to allow sunlight on to the pitch. President Joan Laporta and his board have now decided it is time for a complete face-lift, the most dramatic feature of which will be the spectacular exterior, with blue, yellow and red panels coating the stadium, whi... More About: Redevelopment
Promising new production for Greek television
2007-09-20 19:01:00 "Stous 31 Dromous" is the first Greek serial drama television (for Mega) that filmed primarily on location in New York, US. The trailer looks promising and the young cast includes the daughter of the famous Greek singer Anna Vissi, Sofia Karvela. More About: Television , Production
The most advanced airport in the world...
2007-09-20 18:50:00 ...is the Beijing airport!The world’s largest and most advanced airport building - not only technologically, but also in terms of passenger experience, operational efficiency and sustainability – Beijing Airport will be welcoming and uplifting. A symbol of place, its soaring aerodynamic roof and dragon-like form will celebrate the thrill of flight and evoke traditional Chinese colours and symbols.for more exciting pics click here More About: World , The World , Vance
Echochrome
2007-09-20 14:35:00 In Echochrome , Sony's wacky new puzzle game for PlayStation Network and PSP, things are not as they seem. Or rather, they are as they seem, but only until you change the camera angle.The idea is to "follow the echo", a little smoky outline that appears at different points along the solid white beams and pillars that make up the abstract levels, but you don't literally control your character - instead, you rotate the camera to change the rules governing the surfaces he/she/it is walking along, and in doing so the character's path is altered. from eurogamer.netA very interesting game indeed...
Congrats Kanye!
2007-09-19 12:30:00 The great new album of Kanye West "Graduation" sold a million records in just a week and it already declared "album of the year". This also puts an end to the competition between Kanye West and 50 cent. Curtis (the real name of 50 cent) failed to sell more records and he can now quit performing solo as he promised... More About: Rats
New technology turn entire buildings into LED ads
2007-09-18 00:39:00 AG4 and GKD Metal Fabrics, a German architecture and design company and a woven metal fabric company, respectively, have designed Mediamesh and Illumesh—an LED technology to turn regular building sides into gigantic colorful ads. These two new methods of cabling and lighting let developers place LEDs even over windows—which was verboten before—thanks to the fact that it's sleek enough to still be transparent and not obscure views. However, ads this large moving at regular speeds could be disorienting and vomit-inducing, something that we're sure they're working on avoiding. fromPrintMag More About: Technology , Entire , Buildings , Turn , Ology
Greek PM wins again!
2007-09-17 12:52:00 The governing conservative party of PM Costas Karamanlis has won Greece's general election, retaining a slim majority in parliament. George Papandreou's socialist Pasok party trailed Mr Karamanlis's New Democracy party by nearly four percentage points. With 99% of the votes counted, New Democracy's majority has been cut to 152 seats in the 300-seat parliament.Pasok had 38.1% of the vote giving it 102 seats and Mr Papandreou is under pressure to resign for failing to capitalise on criticism of the government's response the forest fires.Mr Karamanlis told his supporters that the party had been given a "clear mandate" to continue reforms. "I feel doubly responsible to be more effective and avoid mistakes," he said. from bbcnews.comCONGRATULATIONS!!!!! More About: Greek , Wins
Sakis Rouvas - Ola Giro Sou Girizoun
2007-09-14 11:21:00 Don't take me wrong. I'm not Sakis Rouvas fan or something. I just like this song and I'm glad that Greek music stopped using only bouzouki. More About: Giro , Giri
Back home from training
2007-09-14 11:01:00 I didn't post anything for like 16 days because I was inside the training camp of Greek Air Force. I was trained under difficult conditions (no water, fires all around the camp, 0 degrees Celsius at night and 35 during the day; among the most notable ones) and finally I became "airman". Now I have 15 days off to sleep and enjoy the temporary sense of freedom until I return back and continue my duty. I was not able to send any photos form my mobile to the blog as I promised because mobile phones with cameras are strictly prohibited in the camp so I chose to keep my mobile always in my pocket instead of holding it up to take photos.The pause is over... let's continue blogging... More About: Home , Training , Back , TRAI , Raining
Greece under attack!
2007-08-26 10:20:00 These are very difficult times for all of us,' as our prime minster Kostas Karamanlis said. Greekfires continue to destroy many parts of Greece . So many parts simultaneously that really makesyou wonder what or who caused this attack. And it's deffinetely an attack. More than 50 people died until now and the death toll rises from hour to hour causes desperation all around the country. For me it's deffinetely a somekind of a terrorist attack. All these fires lighted uptogether from arsonists in many parts of Greece. Their reasons? Greek general elections are set for 16th of September... who thinks that these two have no connection? More About: Attack , Atta
50 Cent ft. Justin Timberlake Ayo Technology Official Video
2007-08-24 11:06:00 Don't take me wrong. I don't like this kind of music and I simply don't like 50cent. But what is interesting is that Timbaland and Justin Timberlake teamed up again for this song as with many others. Later this year, the famous "producing" couple will release the next album of Madonna! And yes, it will be a huge success considering the previous successes of Timbaland: Pussicat dolls, Nelly Furtado and of course the latest album of Justin Timberlake.It will be quite an event!The song I posted by the way... sucks. Horrible. I do prefer Kanye West from 50 cent. More About: Video , Technology , Cent
Wild monkeys!
More articles from this author:2007-08-24 10:41:00 A troop of vervet monkeys is giving Kenyan villagers long days and sleepless nights, destroying crops and causing a food crisis.The monkeys are more afraid of young men than women and children, and the bolder ones throw stones and chase the women from their farms. Nachu's women have tried wearing their husbands' clothes in an attempt to trick the monkeys into thinking they are men - but this has failed, they say."But the monkeys can tell the difference and they don't run away from us and point at our breasts." The monkeys grab their breasts, and gesture at us while pointing at their private parts. We are afraid that they will sexually harass us," said Mrs Njeri.from bbnews.comQuite interesting ha? More About: Wild , Monkeys 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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