@JaredLeto will be at the Unesco Charity Gala 2012 in Dusseldorf, in October.
Source: RP Online
Duesseldorf…only 30 minutes from here :-). Anyone wanna meet up there?
Municipality workers paint a pedestrian crossing in the colors of a rainbow flag before the start of the annual gay pride parade in Tel Aviv on June 8, 2012. via LGBT Pride events)
Tracking the birth and life of Anonymous, anthropologist and academic Gabriella Coleman set out to explain the mysterious group in her talk at TEDGlobal. The answer was less than comprehensive, but given the nature of the beast, that’s not particularly surprising. She came up with four ways to describe the group’s makeup:
- Anonymous scales and is participatory; it is not just hackers.
- Anonymous may seem chaotic, but most targets are not random.
- They put on a good performance, obvious even to their detractors.
- They are visible and invisible.
Read the full post here. For bonus points, read also Quinn Norton’s excellent Wired piece, How Anonymous Picks Targets, Launches Attacks, and Takes Powerful Organizations Down, which covers much of the same ground but in rather more detail than Coleman could include in a TEDTalk (or, for that matter, than I could capture in a live blog.)[Photo c/o James Duncan Davidson; Graphics c/o TED.]
MEPs from the Greens/EFA group hold up a sign saying “Hello Democracy, Goodbye ACTA” by European Parliament on Flickr.
Hello #Democracy - Goodbye #ACTA - celebrations in the European Parliament by Greens and EFA group
Brian Skerry’s photography is nothing short of amazing. Working as a conservation photographer, he pushes his images to do more than look nice — he wants them to inspire change, to improve how we treat the oceans and the lifeforms living in it.
Ocean Soul, his newest book, shows off the…
reagan-was-a-horrible-president:
Leadership
The Republican “leadership” will lead the USA right over a cliff and they won’t care, because they will be too busy counting their money.
Recall All Republicans in 2012.
Johnny Depp jams with The Black Keys at the MTV Movie Awards 2012
Best Night Sky Photographs of 2012 Named:
1st Place, “Beauty of the Night Sky” Category (Photograph courtesy Jia Hao) - A stargazer stands in awe as comet Lovejoy skims across the night sky over Australia last December. Officially known as C/2011 W3, the comet was predicted to dive into the sun and be destroyed. Instead the icy body survived its solar encounter and went on to offer Southern Hemisphere sky-watchers rare views of its bright tail in the predawn skies.
1st Place, “Against the Lights” Category (Photograph courtesy Norbert Span) - The city lights of Innsbruck pool like molten gold in the valleys of the Austrian Alps in last December. Photographer Norbert Span snapped the picture during a stargazing hike up to the summit of Patscherkofel mountain.
2nd Place, “Beauty of the Night Sky” Category (Photograph courtesy Christoph Otawa) - A long-exposure picture captures the stars wheeling over Tre Cime di Lavaredo, three peaks in the Dolomite mountain range, a UN World Heritage site in northeastern Italy. Lights from cars, meanwhile, trace the surrounding roadway.
2nd Place, “Against the Lights” Category (Photograph courtesy Luis Argerich) - Photographer Luis Argerich was “captivated by the arch of the Milky Way mimicking the shape of the hills” when he took this picture from the Argentine countryside. The panorama also captures the white blobs of the Magellanic clouds, two satellite dwarf galaxies of the Milky Way—despite light pollution from nearby cities.
3rd Place, “Beauty of the Night Sky” Category (Photograph courtesy Stephane Vetter) - Like arrows aimed at the heavens, the rocks of the Arctic Henge at Raufarhöfn, Iceland, stand silhouetted against brilliant auroras. The monument is being built as something of a modern Stonehenge, with slabs of rock placed in astronomical alignments tied to the summer solstice. The overall design is based on the Old Norse poem Völuspá, or Prophecy of the Seeress.
3rd Place, “Against the Lights” Category (Photograph courtesy Luc Perrot) - The sun-grazing comet Lovejoy seems to dive toward the horizon in a picture taken from the French island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean.
4th Place, “Beauty of the Night Sky” Category (Photograph courtesy Thomas Neudert) - The moon illuminates frozen “sculptures” in a picture of the night sky seen from a snow-covered forest. Part of the familiar constellation Orion, the hunter, hangs in the sky near the tip of the foreground tree.
4th Place, “Against the Lights” Category (Photograph courtesy Norbert Span) - Seen from high on the Austrian Alps, illumination from a nearby ski resort competes with the stars, as the man-made light gets scattered upward by atmospheric particles.
5th Place, “Beauty of the Night Sky” Category (Photograph courtesy Eric Hines) - A country road in Wyoming parallels the band of the Milky Way in a summertime shot by photographer Eric Hines. “Spending the nights under the stars in some of the most remote places in the U.S. is what keeps me going,” Hines said in an email.
5th Place, “Against the Lights” Category (Photograph courtesy Majid Ghohroodi) - A brilliant moon casts deep shadows over ancient ruins in Iran, while stars glitter overhead.
