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The Panchen Lama, a title Tibetans give to their second greatest leader, was 6 years old when he and his parents were kidnapped from their home by the Chinese government. He is the world's youngest political prisoner and he has been missing for over 6 years. He is now 12 years old.
The American Antigravity website is a repository for Field-Effect Propulsion and Lifter technology info. They investigate new and innovative technologies, and follow media and other experimenters worldwide involved with antigravity. Also check out the cool antigravity videos.
Larry Carlson's incredible and beautful flash animations. It's one big journey - sit back, and enjoy this movie of bizarre and unique animals, creatures, worlds and creations. Enter The Wonderful World of Larry Carlson.
The Apple Museum is dedicated to the history of Apple Computer, Inc. and with more than 350 Apple products listed, the most comprehensive Apple history source on the internet
Check out Life Magazine's 100 Photographs that Changed the World. You'll recognise many of these pics, but what was the context?.
Protests from 7 safety groups in the US have prompted GM to ban the new Corvette commercial made by Guy Ritchie, that shows a young boy driving a sports car so recklessly that it goes airborne. Well, screw them! Watch it here: Preview (372KB), Full Length: Low Res (1.3MB) High Res (3.8MB). Nice video with music by the Stones.
The Chemical Brothers “Let Forever Be” used a lot of of The Beatles “Tomorrow Never Knows” This remix between the two songs does what good musical Flash is meant to— bring another layer to the music as it scrolls by. Turn your speakers up. Turn off your mind, relax, and float down stream.
"Introducing the Best Bed in the World, The 'Floating Bed'. How many times have you heard the phrase “hanging bed?” Yet when have you ever actually seen one? We worked out the problems of bringing this mythical ideal bed to the world"
Check out this flash golf game to promote Wachovia's sponsorship of the annual Wachovia Golf Tournament held at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, as well as create a viral marketing buzz for the Wachovia brand. Nicely done preview of what's coming up in web gaming.Play the 17th hole.
WOW! The Ferrari amongst powerboats! The 118 WallyPower is a high performance superyacht, integrating technology with design, with unique characteristics like the vertical bow, air inlets, and deck superstructure. Very cool other boats as well at the Wally website.
The Blue Sea and Sails is an ongoing photographic project. Great pictures in a nice flashy environment.
Nice classic cars, flashy site, nice navigation. A private collection of hand picked and most beautiful classic sports cars. Everything from the Fiat Topolino to the Maserati AM 120 Khamsin and the Lamborghini Urraco 300. Check out Classic-Sportscars.org.
If the speed of light could be reduced - from over a billion kilometers per hour, to just a few meters per second - the world would look very different! The Australian National University Relativistic Visualization Project has used supercomputers to simulate what we might see in a world where the effects of Einstein's theory of special relativity are everyday experiences.
Rediscover your favorite songs from the sixties and early seventies at All But Forgotten Oldies. A searchable database of links to sound clips for over 4000 songs from 1960-1975, with over 1200 featured bands and artists.
The name says it... this fella drew a picture of everything, and you can spend hours clicking on different parts of it to find out what's what. (Click on various parts of the image for a larger view)
This is the World Today...lots of useless, but interesting facts. See the Earth population grow, births and deaths, US military expenditures, bicycles produced, movie visitors, CO2 emission, lightning strikes, fish caught, underweight kids and many more. All in realtime...
RoboDump is a robot. Sort of. And it poops. Sort of. Forever. A horrible, never-ending bowel movement complete with straining grunts, horrific gas, splashes, and pee sounds.
Was Mary Magdalene the wife of Jesus Christ—even the mother of his child? A secret society, said to have included Leonardo da Vinci and Sir Isaac Newton, knew and kept this extraordinary secret for centuries. Follow Elizabeth Vargas as she investigates claims from Jerusalem to England in a quest to separate fact from fiction in this National Geographic online video.
Someone's gone to the trouble of creating a three minute movie trailer for "Titanic Two - The Surface". The idea is -Jack's back-. He was found on the bottom of the ocean floor and has to...well...."just watch the trailer. Someone put a lot of work into this, adding lots of Leonardo di Caprio bits together. Let's hope James Cameron sees this because we know he's going to laugh his ass off.
Check out the latest addition to the Forests Forever website: the Sarawak Rainforest right on the equator on the giant island of Borneo. This thick forest of overwhelming volume is filled with an unimaginable number of living things. The oldest rain forest in the world has continued to live to this day, untouched by the ice ages. Beautiful images. Beautul Flash. Beautiful immersion.
Can we just stop with the celebrity endorsements already? George Clooney will soon be seen in commercials for Nestle Expresso. In just the past few days, Mariah Carey signed with Elizabeth Arden and Kate Moss signed with both Calvin Klein and Nikon. Now Maria Sharapova has signed with Land Rover to front the SUV-maker's marketing.
We've all heard (and seen) a lot about Paris Hilton. Making the headlines once again... This Paris Sings to Hef video is interesting to watch. She can't sing, but we can all enjoy her singing for different reasons...
Channel G4 is trying to breathe new life into the original Star trek series by creating an "entertainment mash-up". G4 came up with a play-while-you-watch game called The Spock Market that allows viewers to buy, sell and trade shares of characters, aliens, gadgets and ships. Stock values change based on events in the episodes. There's some funny stop-motion commercial that promote the whole thing which you can view here and here.
Think you can move faster then time?
Check out the new Levi's engineered jeans 2006 flashy microsite by Ogilvyone singapore.
In 1960, a year before Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, US pilot Joe Kittenger was the real first man in space. He went up in a balloon 30 kilometres above the Earth and JUMPED!!! Here's a video clip including some film Kittenger shot on his way falling down towards earth at 990km an hour.
Taking the whole in-game advertising to the next seemingly logical step, publishers of the game Project Entropia are making it possible for players to create their own ads within the game. Because of the game's focus on a virtual economy, the bying and selling of billboards seems to be a natural addition. Current player-created ads are promoting events and actions players have created in the game.
The coolest kiteboard videos (stuff that you really shouldn't try at home), pictures and lots of other goodies at: BestKiteBoarding
He was way before his own time! Leonardo DaVinci designed incredible machines that would not exist for hundreds of years:armoured cars, flying ships, parachutes, floats for walking on water and deep-sea diving suits.
Oh this makes it much easier! The automatic Advertising Slogan Generator: you supply a word, this app generates a new and catching slogan...
Check out freaks and circus attractions through the ages: this is Freak Show.
In 1881, William “Billy the Kid” Bonney recovers from a near-fatal gunshot wound in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. And in 2003, the French and Australian units encountered a lone Martian patrol and engaged it....in Important Events In History That Never Occurred Today.
The Xeno III is the first personal concept car. It is a one-of-a-kind machine designed and built around the ergonomics and taste of a single individual: its owner. Each vehicle is designed to match the form and fantasy of one person. View pictures of the Xeno III.
Levi's recently became an unwitting participant a guerrilla marketing campaign developed by two students from San Francisco. It involved a large, four-legged, denim-clad "monster" which prowled around the front of the Levi's store in San Francisco's Union Square for 90 minutes, attracting media and public attention. Bloggers around the world supported the initiative, nominating it as one of their favourite media stunts of the year. Watch the video.
Here are some nice huge blow-up & inflatable products. Everything from jumpy jumpy castles, bouncers, balloos, tunnels, tents, moving cartoons & characters, and much more stuff for the ultimate party!
Get set for an explosion of consumer-generated media, as YouTube provides users with new ways of sharing, sending and watching videos online. Up until now it has been difficult for individuals to share videos on the web because of their file sizes and uploading difficulties. YouTube allows people to upload, tag and share clips across the web and via emails, allowing them to create their own personal video network.
A beautiful gallery with pictures of extreme Landmark Houses built by the most innovative architects. Just to show that if you let creativity follow its way, the results can be stunning! I will take an option on buying any of these house showcases: great stuff!
The BMW Film initiative, two years ago, was one of the first pieces of exceptional branded content, and generated huge hype for the company. BMW has continued to explore the territory by publishing branded comics and now: audio books. BMW has commissioned a series of short stories Random House authors that can be downloaded every two weeks and played on MP3 players and laptops. Check out BMW Audiobooks.
Here's a scene by scene Blues Brothers movie transcription. Including over 50 movieframes (jpg) and lots of sound files (wav).
Try out this action paced 3D game of Street Luge. Roar downhill, and avoid that wall... Cool stuff.
Don't know if this is official stuff, but here it is: the Ferrari Boat, all with smooth white leather.
Winter's coming. For all you boarding freaks...You can design your own greased lightning at RideHarder
Have a look at this new Jaguar site, and explore the new XK, and beautiful interactive contributions from a variety of unique personalities. Nice flashy site.
The infrastructure of a lost metropolis. Unusual sights on the streets of New York City, from Victorian mansions in Staten Island and Coney Island ..remnants of long-forgotten streets ..ancient cemeteries ..cobblestone streets ..subway and train tracks and much more. See The Forgotten New York.
Scared-stiff astronomers have detected a mysterious mass they've dubbed a "chaos cloud" that dissolves everything in its path, including comets, asteroids, planets and entire stars -- and it's headed directly toward Earth! Expected to be here around 2014...
Packed with content, IgoUgo.com is a travel site that's going places. IgoUgo has built a site based on content submitted by its users. And even as it continues to fatten up, it remains a community-based travel site that’s becoming as well known, and as well visited, as the Expedias and Fodors of travel websites.
Dance, dance, dance the day away with this game that really gets your groove on: Star Dance. Follow the dance steps on-screen with your mouse. Match the movements exactly to earn the most points. Can you get the worldwide high score?
No one's story is insignificant, not even a peanut's. Check out this beautiful flash website. An incredible 10 minute movie, lean backward and enjoy.
